The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 20, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1%96. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CaxLx, one week, by carrier..$0.15 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall... Dafly and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 Daily and Sunday CAvi, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CaLy, one month, by mail., .65 Bunday CaLL, one year, by mall... 1.50 WEKKLY CALL, one year, by mail THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country ona vacation ? It #0, 1t 1% no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Marke: Street, San Francisco, California. Felephone. ...Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone.......... BRANCH OFFICES : 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open untll 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Misslon streets; open wntil 9 o'clock. 2618 Mission street: open until § o'clock. 116 Ninth sireet; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 808 Broadway. Main—1874 EASTERN OFFICE : Rooms 31 and 82, 34 Park Row, New York City. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. When the funding bill is reported the weather will get warmer very rapidly. Politics, festivals and business are all coming at once and spring is on the jump. In mining California leads for gold, but in politics she takes a place in the front rank for silver. There will be hardly any change in poli- tics this week except that it will grow steadily hotter. The Democrats are so far behind in the campaign they have not even got a predic- tion bureau in working order yet. Los Angeles has now & chance to im- prove on Santa Barbara and show other festival towns how to improve on her. It is even rumored now that if the Re- publicans of that State would combine with the Populists they could carry Texas. Before she gets through with this racket England may be urging thec dervishes to leave the Soudan boundary to arbitra- tion. The more the proposition to send a pledged delegation to St. Louis is consid- ered the less it seems worthy of consider- ation. An unpledged delegation it is easily un- derstood will stand for the interest of Cali- fornia, but what will a pledged delegation stand for. As the British expedition up the Nile is to take balloons with it there is a probable intention of going higher than was at first announced. _— Having now two wars with the natives to carry on England certainly has all the excuse she needs for getting into Africa with both feet. It remains to be seen whether Tillman can handle his pitchfork as effectively in ‘Western hayfields as hedid in the Con- gressional compost heap. Perhaps the Virginia Democrats favor Bayard for the Presidential nomination because they know that after the election he never would be missed. It may be for years and 1t may be for- ever before we know whether Whitney’s visit to Washington was intended to pre- pare for a circus or a funeral, g Bt It is not likely the various Democratic factions will ever get together this year until they find themselves after the elec- tion dumped into the same hole. From the way that prominent Senators ere scattering themselves over the country it is evident they do not expect anything big to happen in the Senate very soon. Sending the California vote to St. Louis by telegraph would be better than sending it by a bound up delegation, inasmuch as it would at least work the wires a littte. If Whitney can rouse the Democrats to stand up and make a straight fight for free trade and the Cleveland administra- tion we would like to see him get in and do it. Republican harmony has now come so near including all the members of the party that it will be an easy thing for the nulcgm,enu to loyally join in and make it unanimous. . Thisis not the first time we have heard that Huntington had prepared to rush his funding scheme through Congress, nor will it be the first time that the rush ends in a tumble. There is actually an_sgitation in Okla- homa to have the National capitol re- moved to that Territory, but of course gall can’t do everything even with the Government. —_— There are many things to distract atten- tiop at present, but nothing will ever lead tile people of California to turn their eyes away from the funding bill fight until the thing is settled. As there is a chance the silver men will control the Democratic convention Horace Boies is probably getting ready to explain that his letter of declination was only a passing despondency and he is feeling bet- ter now. Cleveland knows that if he would rec- ognize the independence’ of Cuba the House would be with bim, the Senate would support him and the people would commend him, but it seems he is not cer- tam about Wall street. A New York physician has broken the record as a fec earner by drageing a sneak thief whom he found in his office into a laboratory where he put him through sev- eral severe tests as to his sanity and then compelied him to pay $5 for it as & medi- cal examination. There is no anti-McKinley element amceng the Republicans of this State any more than there isan anti-Reed or anti- Allison element. All the Republicans of the State will be for the nominee of the St. Louis convention and will loyally unite in giving him the yote of California on election day. . 6.00 | UNNEOESSARY PLEDGES. The Oakland Tribune is another leading Republican paper, besides THE CALy, that is warning the party in California not to be hasty in pledging itself to any particular candidate at the St. Louis convention. It say ©1tis probable that a majority of the Re- publicans of the State are in favor of the nomination of McKinley. But they should go to the convention free to vote for him or for any other candidate who at that time may seem most available. With this free- dom the votesof the California delegation may turn the 'scale in favor of some suc- cessful candidate. California will be want- ing many things of the next administra. tion. Itisassumed that it will be Repub- lican. The delegates willin all probability attend = President-making convention. Their influence will be recognized in a much greater degree if there is freedom to take advantage of the largest opportuni- ties. It would be an unfortunate circum- stance if the delegation wete tied up by pledges to support some one man, because such pledges necessarily antagonize all other candidates. . Fortunately, every name that has been prominently brought forward in connection with & nomination is that of a good man. California would be well served by either of such men as Mc- Kinley, Reed, Allison, Morton or Harri- son. There may be even a greater num- ber of names before the convention. It certainly would not be a fortunate circum- stance, if, by reason of pledges, the delega- tion from this State were compelled, through thick and thin, to stand by an un- successful candidate.” The Tribune is perhaps correct when it says that probably ‘‘a majority of the Re- publicans of the State are in favor of the nomination of McKinley.” The brilliant author of the bill which expressed the sen- timent of the Republican party on the subject of protection eminently deserves the admiration of every Republican. If elected, as he surely would be if nom- inated, he would make as able and patri- otic a President as the country can pro- duce. He would be an honor to the whole people and to his party. As the Tribune points out, the Republi- cans are reasonably sure of victory in the coming election. The overshadowing con- sideration with us isthe needs of this State and this extraordinary opportunity to de- mand their recognition at the hands of a great party sailing to a victorious port. To run the risk of antagonisms which pledges might create is a step that we cannot afford to take. If there were any question that the other candidates ad- vanced for the nomination were inferior to Mr. McKinley in patriotism, ability or Republicanism the situation would be dif- ferent. If it were simply a question of electing him or having a Democratic President it would be right that all Re- publicans should unite upon his selection. But that is not the situation. What we shall most surely have is a Republican President. What we should do is to secure the greatest possible advantage from the opportunity. No one candidate can be sure of the nomination. A pledge to support any particular candidate would certainly be taken as a challenge to all other candidates. Every intelligent Re- publican aware of our needsand of the value of this opportunity may now ask himself if he has the right to run the risks and invite the antagonisms which a pledge would provoke. RATES AND FUNDING. ‘Those Ameriean citizens, in and out of Congress, who seem to think that the set- tlement of the railroad debt to the Go ernment is a “simple business proposi- tion,” involving the sole question of ex- tending the time for an embarrassed cred- itor to make settlement, might read with interest and profit the result of the con- convention of freight agents recently held in Milwaukee. These gentlemen, after a careful study of the question of overland transportation rates, have framed a sched- ule advancing present west-bound rates more than 50 per cent, with a correspond- ing advance on east-bound rates for the leading products of California. In taking this action they have considered only tne delay necessary in putting the new rates into effect. One of the delays is that of ten days’ notice to the Interstate Com- merce Commission. The rate war of 1892 reduced west-bound charges to 40 per cent of the rates thereto- fore preveiling. This wascaused by the competition of the Panama Railway. Upon this 40 per cent, according to the published statement of the general freight agent of the Southern Pacific Company, an average raise to 65 per cent of the orig- inal rates has been made, which is a raise of over 63 per cent on existing rates. That is to say, the rallroads west of the Missouri River, acting in concert and enabled to do so by the arrangement which Mr, Huntington has made for removing the competition offered by the Panamsa Rail- way, can entirely upset and readjust the commercial conditions of California and the whole West, and in doing so exhibita power infinitely greater than that which the Government of the United Btates is able to exercise. What private, commun- ity, State or regional interests may be wrecked or advanced by this violent over- wurning of an established order of things upon which present conditions are based are matters that have not received the slightest attention from the combined rail- roads making this advance. * It might be argued that even though the President should exercise his clear prerog- ative and foreclose the Government mort- gage on the debtor roads, the possible pur- ¢hasers would be as likely as the present owners to enter into just such a revolu- tionary combination as has been thrust upon us. But such an argument would leave out of the account the fact that the roads, under foreclosure sale, might pass out of the hands of their present owners, whose sole policy is to strengthen monop- oly by combinstion and to squeeze every dolier in sight, without regard to an in- creased traffic and larger profits possible under a liberal policy, and might fall into the hands of owners who realize that the best results come from fostering develop- ment by offering encouraging rates. Unaer the new arrangement the Central Pacific is enabled to say to the opponents of the funding bill in Congress that in ad- dition to the money-earning power which it enjoys as a monovoly, it has secured tke co-operation of all other transcontinental lines, and that by raising its rates to a figure which will prohibit the develop- ment of the West it will be able to dis- charge its Government debt under the terms of the funding bill. This will be placing the interestsof the aided roads im- measurably above those of the country. Whether that is the desire of Congress is something that the people at large would be glad to know. AN TRREGULAR MAIL. The Eureka Standard calls attention to the irregularity of the overland mail ser- wvice, which entails so grievous and unjust a hardship upon the people of Humboldt and Mendocino counties. It is learned from other sources that sometimes it re- quires eight days for paper mail to reach Eureka and the contiguous region from 8an Francisco. This is outrageous. The Standard says in explanation: ¢The pri- mary trouble is that the mail contractors took the contract at such low figures that no money can be made.” As a conse- quence, when ¥ drummer appears with his trunks and pays compensatory fare the bulky part of the mail is left behind for a later trip. A succession of drummers means an indefinite postponement of all heavy mail forwarding. The situation is made clear when itis reflected that the mail has to be carried by team over mountain roads for long dis- | tances, there being no railroad connection with the dense population centering on Humboldt Bay. In that region great en- terprises have sprung up, including lum- ber, dairying, farming and mining. Itis one of the richest and most inviting sec- tions of California, and it stretches all the way from Ukiah to Eureka. It is develop- ing with great rapidity, a necessary result of its splendid resources and attractions. The bulk of the residents are persons of brains, means and enterprise, who have gone thither to carve their fortunes out of the undeveloped wealth that lies ready to their hands. They need and demand an adequate mail service with the great world which lies beyond their environing moun- tains and they are entitled to consider- ation. In explanation of the present shameful mail service the Standard says: ‘A con- tractor binds himself to do a certain thing, and because he has made a mistake 30,000 veople have to suffer. Is there no redress, no remedy for this state of affairs? Hum- boldt County has30,000 people who are eager to learn what the people of other sections aredoing, and they are prohibited from the enjoyment of this right by a contractor who either through ignorance or greed made a big mistake. The people of this county did not have anything to do with awarding the contract or asking the con- tractor to accept it, and the Standard is of the opinion that they should not suffer. Something should be done to remedy the wrong.” It gives TuE CArn pleasure to second this protest and to demand a remedying of the wrongat which it is aimed. THE ' OBANGE CROP. Secretary Dreher of the Fruit Growers’ Exchange announces the following facts: That the orange season in Southern Cali- fornia has practically closed, only a few late varieties remaining; that the ship- ments have been 5137 carloads; that first - class navels have brought as much as $295 a box, and that a great many carloads sold in Southern California for $260 a box. Growers who received $2 50 a box cleared $1 30 after paying every expense, including interest, taxes and labor. As each acre produces from 200 to 300 boxes, many of the older groves running to 500 boxes, it is easy to compute the handsome profits that have been real- ized from the industry this year. And yet it wasonly a few years ago that the cry of overproduction was raised. Growers could not sell, “the market was glutted.” Millions of oranges rotted on the ground, valuable properties were lost and planting ceased. Then the growers organized, found an eager and inexhaustible Eastern | market that had never heard of their vroducts, and are now prospering amaz- ingly. Fimilar results have been secured in the region lying north of Tehachapi Pass. | Here a stretch of foothill country over 300 miles in length is- gradually being dotted with orange orchards, for it is perfectly suited to that industry, being above the frost level of the vaileys. Oranges thrive as far north as Anderson, the extreme upper end of the Sacramento Valley. As the winters in this northern stretch are colder than in Southern California the ripening of the fruitis hastened, and this enables the northern growers to reach the Easiern market early and secure high prices on that account. The oranges of Oroville arrive at New York ahead of those from any other part of the world. The splendid results of orange calture have been secured solely through the in- telligent co-operation of the growers. The wine industry, like the orange, was practically a failure before the growers organized and found a market. The raisin industry is being similarly rehabilitated, and the recent action of deciduous fruit- growers toward concert of actionin the Eastern market assures equal profits for ensuing crops. COAST EXCHANGES, ‘Whether or not the gifted editor of the Red- lands Citrograph mesnt to be facetious when he wrote the following paragraph may never be known, but the fact remains that he has made & suggestion that carries as much wisdom as fascination. He says: It sirikes us that the owners of the huge salt mines over on the desert north of here are derelict in their duty to suffering humanity in that they do not use the big blocks quarried from the mires as material with which to build sanitariums. It is well known that salt Is antiseptic and death to most disease germs. Houses built of salt would naturally be highly aseptic and the rock salt over there Is 80 hard that it makes splendid building material. Hurry up the first natural rock salt san- itarium and advertise it as & blessing to suffering humanity. The Stockton Independent publishes an ac- count ot two ten-mule teams loaded with freight at Stockton tor Modesto. Theload con- sisted of 40,000 grain bags, consigned to Orrie McHenry, the Modesto banker. The entire number of bags to be transported is 100,000. Our contemporary says: z The raflroad company’s rate on jute bags from Stockton to Modesto in carload lots is 14 cents per hundred, or $2 80 per ton; the distance is about thirty miles, and can easily be covered by teams inaday. The load taken on the four wagons amounts to about, twenty tons, the freight rates on which would be 856, and on the whole shipment of tifty tons of jute Wags alone would be $140 in freight rates saved to the farmer. It seems incredible that team freighting over the wretched roads of the San Joaquin can be done more cheaply than by the Southern Pacific Company. The Independent adds the following astonishing news: “Feaming to Modesto s nota new thing, and at present fully two-thirds of the treight shipped out of Stockton to Modesto goes that way in prefer- ence to rail. The freight team on the streetof Stockton 18 becoming almost as familiar a sight as it ever was in the greatjdays of teaming to the southern mines. In aking on the subject yes- fternoon, Manager Welsh of the Crown ted that for several months nearly every pound of flour that has gone from the Stockton mill to Modesto has gone by team. The rate on flour for the thirty miles over the railroad is $3 20 & ton, and there is the haul from mill to train and from train to store by team beside. The need of the new railroad mow being pushed through the valley seems to be fully demonstrated. The Concord Sun is still ealling attention to the benefits to be reaped by any company that will establisk o fruit cannery at that place. It says: ‘There are several thousands of acrés between Concord and Clayton and Concord and Danville in fruit-bearing orchards, all of which frult, 1f re- tained here for canning purposes, would sustaln a very extensive cannery. This settles the matter as to the fact of enough tree fralt growing here to nnery. Then again the large amount and vegetables that would be raised here if such an {ndustry were establ'shed would give a cannery a greater guAranty of prosperity. This is but one of many opportunities for the profitable employment of capital in California, ‘The Modesto Herald publidhes a spirited‘let- ter from Oskdale which contains the follow- ing: Oakdale to-day, without doubt, Is the best busi- ness town In the county. The streets are thronged [ Ppeople, and they are mostly strangers who have purchased property here or in the imme. diate vicinity. There is no doubt in my mind that Oakaale has the brightest prospects 0f any town this part of the State. Taking into consideration the excellent facilities for irrigating the land sur- rounding Oakdale for miles on either side, it is plain that the country is going to butld up Oakdale &nd not Oakdale build up the country, hence one can readily appreciate the very flattering future of our town. The Alameda Argus indirectly calls attention to one of the most delightful sources of health and pleasure lying ready to the hands of the people hereabout. It is a familiar fact that within recent years a summer outing in house boats on the bay of San Francisco has become @ regular thing. From the primitive affair of first effort we are advancing to elegance and luxury. Our contemporary says that George N. Blanchard of the Spring Valley Water Works has soid his 0ld “ark” and has decided on plans for a new one to cost $2000. The hull s to be eighty feet long and thirty-four feet wide and will carry a two-story house containing eight or nine rooms and fitted with hot and cold salt- water baths, a bowling alley and eleetric lights. This will be the largest floating house on the bay. The San Bernadino Sun announces another of the important discoveries that are con- stantly being made in California. It says: Hues Thomas and John Wood returned to this clty Sunday night after a two months’ prospect- ing trip on the desert. They bring the news that they made a valuable discovery on their trip in the shape of a deposit of borax, five acres in extent which they found about sixteen miles north of Barstow, and as evidencu of the verity of their story they bring with them some ssmples of the rock, which assays 7 per cemt better than that taken from the mine of the Pacific Coast Borax Company at Calico, and 60 per cent better than that mined in Deatn Valley. ‘While many of the larger cities of the State are holding the public attention with their fiestas and rose carnivals, it is pleasing to read in the Mountain View (Santa Clara County) Register that the ladies of the Library and Exchange in that place are preparing to hold a rose fair there on the 23d and 24th inst. There will be an excellent programme, including a drama, tableaux and music. The Riverside Enterprise is calling attention to the profits derivable from the cultivation of canaigre. Saysour exchange: It is a very profitable crop when intelligently handled, ss has been demonstrated by experi- ments. No finer soll for its cultivation and propa- gation can be found than the decomposed granite and sandy loam of Riverside County. Returns can be had in a few months from the time of embarking in the business of growing it. And a market can be found for it right here without the expense of shipping long distances. Guadalupe, Santa Barbara County, is feeling the new impulse of progress. Evidence of its advancement is thus given by the Standard: “What & wondertul change since the first of the year—graveled sireets and sidewalks, a new $10,000 school building, and now comes & new brick block on the main street.” According to the San Diego Sun the newly organized Citizens’ Traction Company of that city is rapidly converting the cable road into an electric system. The Fresno: Republican says that a new day is dawning for the historicold town of Cente.- ville, as J. N. Kilgore has purchased a 140-acre tract, including the townsite, and is preparing to rejuvenate the place. The oil wells at Coalinga, Fresno County, says the Fresno Republican, are promising & handsome yield. One well is down 590 feet and is producing forty barrels of oil & day. The other is 540 feet and is to be carried down to 1200 feet. Bays our contemporary: The most remarkaole thing connected with the district is that the oll is of the best quality pro- duced in the United States. The theory of geolo- &lsts has been that no first-class coal or oll would ever be found on this coast, because the forma- tions'are not old enough. But theorles count for nothing at Coalinga. Compared with the best oll produced anywhere else on this coast the Coalinga product is as 62 to 17. A manufacturing company of San Francisco, which uses in 1ts business & high grade of ofl, which it imports from Peru, in South America, because it cannot obiain it in the United | States, was sent a gallon of thie Coalinga oil. After putting It Lo the test 1t was deciared equal to the Peru oil. Another San Franclsco company which uses 2500 barreis of crude ofl each month for fuel in its firebrick kilns bas tested the Coalings product, and says that 1200 barrels of 1t will go as far as 2500 barrels of the other. An offer has been made by a company to ersct a refinery on the ground and buy the entire output at $2 50 a barrel. is an exceedingly high price, and is two and a half times more than the Los Angeles oil sells for. The ofl flows from the well without the aid of & pump. Experts in the business predict that a much greater flow will be struck. Tauks have been pro- vided for saving the oll, und others will be taken 10 the wells a8 needed. Later news from the Republican is to this effect: News reached Fresno yesterday that the 600- foot well at Coalings is improving dally. After being plugged several days it was opened, and thirty-five barrels flowed out in an hour and a quarter. That Nevada is awake to the new order of things is evidenced by this announcement in the Virginia Chronicle: 44 Lina s the name of the new town which has just been organized on the Nevada side of the State Line district. It is but a few hundred feet on the Nevada side, but affords the best location for a townsite t0 be found thereabouts, a8 all the min- ingclaims nearly can be made tributary to it. The Los Angeles Journal gives this important information: A full corps of engineers and surveyors has been put into the fleld ac EI Paso, beyond the frontfer, and they are now heading toward the Pacific Coast. This means that the Sierra Madre Trunk line, known as the Guif, Rio Grande and Pacific Railway. intenas to build a transcontinental line through Northern and Central Mexico. The El Paso Telegram and Mezican Herald have given consider- able spaceto the project, holding that it 1s destined t0 be an Important factor in the development of rich mineral and timber regions in Mexico, The new rallway also has a direct significance for the whole Pacific Coast. It will open & wonderfully rich and fertile country now awaiting settlement and development, and at the same time bring that region into communication with San Diego. Much |- of the business in freighting down there now passes down the eastern declivity of the Serra Madres and is absorbed by St. Louls and Western and Easiern citfes, the Mexican Central and Mexi- can International lines diverting the traffic from California. With the new road In operation the remunerative business of the mines already in operation and industries yet to be started will be done with the Pacific Coast, to the exclusion of Eastern competitors. The Ventura Independent has suoceeded to the business of the People’s Advocate, and very well at that. The Altura New Era has entered its ninth year with a cheerful greeting, lots of gritanda prosperous business. By completing its first year the Stockton Daily Record has established its claims on the future by its successful conduct of the past. The Pomona Progress justifies its title by issuing a fine special edition devoted to the Farmers’ Institute. Yuma has a promising new weekly published under the title of the Adwvertiser. George Gird, the new editor of the Needles Eye, is weaving laurel crowns for his brow by his admirable managemeat of the paper. The Healdsburg Tribune has entered upon its eighth volume and looks as sturdy and thrifty as though it were ten times as old. The Carson Appeal is approaching its twenty- fifth birthday, but that fact has no reference to the age of its versatile editor, 8am Davis. The enlargement of the Alameda Enecinalis sufficient evidence of the superior ability of Editor Travers. The enlargement of the Oroville Zimes proves its own good management 8s much as it does the increasing prosperity of Oroville. The Georgetown Gazette is seventeen years old, and that is calling sttention to the fact that this is but a trifie below the age of its gifted editorial writer and manager, Miss Maude A. Hulbert. The Los Gatos Mail has proved its own value and the permanency of the prosperity of Los Gatos by beginning its thirteenth volume. D The Orange (Orange County) Post is in its | This | twelfth volume and progressing with that de- ligh#ful part of the State. The Porterville Enterprise has entered upon its ninth volume and is still vigorously sound- ing the praises of that superb corner of Tulare County’s orange belt. The Eel River Valley Advance, published at Fortuna, has begun its ninth year with happy prospects. The Merced Evening Sun, yielding to the pressure of growing businéss, has been en- larged and otherwise improved. The Santa Ana Herald, 80 able as & weekly, is soon to become a daily. The Delano Courier has been enlarged to meet the increased demands of that thriving town. PERSONAL. Sam A. Alexander, a merchant at Fresno, is at the Lick. E. R. Zimmer, a jeweler at Centralia, Wash., is among the Russ guests. R. R. Hall, & mining man of Omahs, is smong the Palace arrivals. Harvey McMurchy, the crack shot from Syra- cuse, N. Y., is at the Grand. A. Stewart, 8 New York mining expert, regis- tered at the Russ yesterday. John R. Patterson and E. S. May of Boston, arrived at the Lick yesterday. Dr. 8. B. Littlefleld and Joseph Colusa are guests at ths Grand. J. B. Fuller of Marysville, the Bank Com- misstoner, is at the California. Ed L. Simmons and familyof Roslyn, Wash., are staying at the Cosmopolitan. Dr. A. M. Charlett, a prominent physician of New Orleans, is now at the Palace. Joseph R. Tepscott, the Eureka banker, 18 making a short visit at the Palace. D. P. 8imons, the Los Angeles real-estate dealer, 1s at the Lick with his wife. Mrs. George Sperry, wife of the Stockton flour mill owner, is at the Occidental. H. A. Logan, an old-timer of pioneer days, who has a store at Norman, is at the Russ. H. 8. Jennings and H, L. Sprague, New York capitalists, arrived at the Palace yesterday. M. L. Mastellar, an agent of the Southern Pa- cific Company, is a guest of the Cosmopolitan. E. A. Rockwood, & merchant of Buffalo, N.Y., has arrived at the Palace on & visit to the coast. Y. Sterling and John Irwin, United States naval officers, are among Sunday’s errivals at the Palace. J. H. Dugam, the well-known cattle-buyer of Merced and Fresno, is among the Cosmopol- itan’s guests. Henry Platt, the Chicago manufacturer of ‘wagon fittings, is out here. He is at the Russ with his wife. “T. T. Rice, a lumber merchant from 8t. Paul, Minn., is here with his wife. They have apart- ments at the Palace. Charles T. Wayter, an extensive mine-owner of Forest Hill, Cal., now in the city, is regis- tered at the Cosmopolitan. A. 8.Jackson, an attorney well known in Portland, Or., is here on a visit and is making the Palace his headquarters, F. Wincup, formeriy a student at Stanford University, arrived at the Palace last night on & bridal trip from Los Angeles. James Green, a St. Louis merchant, was among those that arrived from the East yester-* day and registered at the Palace. F. F. Raymond, a druggist from Boston, is at the Palace, having arrived from the East yes- terday with his wife and daughter. L. M. Hamburger, one of the commissioners of the World’s Fair, is in town from Chicago. The Palace is his temporary home. Mrs. F. G. Bigelow, Miss Mary Bigelow and Miss Beth Bigelow of Milwaukee were among last night’s Eastern arrivals at the Palace. C. Gelland and C. Defabre, two Frenchmen making & pleasure trip around the world, came in yesterday on the Gaelic from the Orient ana took rooms at the Occidental. Ezra Kendall and Miss Edith Kingsley of New York, two leading characters in “The Pair of Kids,” that opens to-night at the Columbia, arrived at the Baldwin yesterday. J. F. Hawley and 8. 8. Hawley, wealthy New Yorkers, are on a pleasure trip through this State, and are guests of the California, having completed a tour of the southern regions. William J. Hussey, for two years pro- fessor of astronomy at Stanford University and now astronomer st Lick Observatory, came down from Mount Hamilton yesterday for a short stay at the Lick and incidentally to “talk shop” with Astronomer Todd, who is soon to sail on the yacht Coronet in charge of iiodeleld of tne Amherst eclipse expedition bound for | Japan. Lieutenants Carlos Alberto de Mello Guer- relro and B. Vieira da Bilva, two Portuguese naval officers on their way home after thirty months’ service in China waters, were among the Gaelic's Dassengers from the Orient. They are registered with two comrades at the Occi- dental. They have just been relieved from duty on the gunboat Bengo, one of the three ships of the Portuguese navy stationed in the Pacific, a vessel of 432 tons, and expect to do duty on another naval vessel as soon as they arrive in Lisbon. Previous to their long expe- rience at the Chinese port of Macao they were stationed at Mozambique on the coast of Africa. THE VICE-PRESIDENCY. The hated opposition has not gone so far as to get out a Vice-Presidential campaign but- ton for Mr. Reed.—Washington Post. You can’t induce politicians to take into ac- count that there is importance in the Vice- Presidency while they are nominating a Presi- dent, and it is nouse to make the attempt to do so.—Boaton Herald. Those néwspapers which affect to regard the Vice-Presidency with a feeling of contempt are evidently ignorant of the spiendid galaxy of statesmen who have not deemed it beneath their dignity to occupy that station.—New York Commercial Advertiser. There isn’t much anxiety about the Vice- Presidentlal nomination at St. Louis, and yet the Vice«President has several times in the his- tory of this country stepped into the White House as primus. No mistake should be made ebout him at Bt. Louis.—Minneapolis Journal. Speaker Reed is credited with having said recently that “the uncertainties of life are the only things that make it worth living.” The only real uncertainty of a political nature that gives zest to Mr. Reed’s existence just now must be whether or not to take the nomination for Vice-President.—New York World. It Amerjcan political methods are to con- tinue on the lines leid down by the McKinley managers it may becomeé necessary te increase the number of Vice-Presidents from one to ten or a dozen; perhaps to have as many Vice- Presidents as a Cooper Union mass-meeting.— New York Sun. DESERVES 'SUCCESS. Grass Valley Telegraph. When Charles M. Shortridge took control of the Ban Francisco CALL he said Pacifie Coast interests wera to receive first attention. He bas maintained that idea all tarough and has placed THE CALL at the top of the ladder in coast journalism. Notonly in newspaper work has THE CALL maintained that idea, but in various other ways. The steel work for the new CALL building will be furnished by home mauufacturers, a contract for 2000 tons of steel beams and girders having been let to the Pacific Rolling Mills for the new building: This move shows the sincerity of THE CALL in its promises, and will redound to its credit. THE CALL deserves the success with which it is meeting. 2 T Chauncey Depew on California. *New York Tribune. California is without a doubt the most bean- tiful part of the world that I have ever seen, and I have been pretty much all around. At this time of the year the country is all in blos. som and bloom. The winter there is about like our fall, and the summers, while hot, are not uncomfortaple, owing to the dry atmos- Shen, and the nights are always cool. Itsel- lom rains there, and the climate is almost ideal. What surprises me is that every one with a little capital has not gone to California to live. San Francisco is & mmnr city, and, while there is not the same air of hurry and stir of action that there isin the East, where there are large manufacturing interests, the people are wideawake and energetic. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. A marble bust of Paul Verlaine isto be placed in the garden of the Luxembourg. Paderewski plays billiards as a rest irom piano-playing. He is not an expert with the cue. g The French Government has bestowed upon the American cattle-painter, William H. Howe, the decoration of an officer of the Academy. In the British Museum is & book in Arabic by the late “Chinese’” Gordon. It was printed at Khartoum,and contains his views regarding the Soudan. The faculty of Princeton College has elected Henry Irving honorary member of the Ameri- can Whig Society. Thisisa distinction seidom conferred, and doubtless it will be all the more valued for that reason. The Rev. Austin Willey, who has just died at Northfield, Minn., at the age of 89, nad the distinction of being the first editor of the earliest anti-slavery paper in the country. This was the Advocate of Freedom, which was started in 1839 at ‘Bangor by the Maine aboli- tionists. Spain’s first arbor day was celebrated re- cently. The young King planted a sapling near Madrid, after which 2000 school children followed his example. Each ome of them re- ceived a medal bearing the inscription, “‘First Arbor Day, Instituted in the Reign of Alfonse XIII, 1896.” Great regret is felt around Glasgow, Ky., over the death of “Old Rial’” Lewis, the most famous of ante-bellum fiddlers in that region. Rial had all the old-time negro characteristies, and forty or fifty years ago he cut an important figure at all the gatherings of the belles and beaux in the Barren River country, a section at that time renowned for “its wealth. its polish, the beauty of its women snd the gal- lantry of its men.! A LEANING CHIMNEY. There is a chimney on the Presidio reserva- tion that keeps an upright position when, ac- cording to all accepted laws of gravitation it should be lying in a heapon the ground. It is one of the chimneys of the old blacksmith-shop on the road 1o Fort Point and presents & gro- tesque appearance. It is about twenty feet high and three feet square and leans over so badly that one expects it to fall each moment. The blacksmith-shop stands close to the bay shore, and during the last storm the waves undermined one side of it, so that the building is now a total wreck. There are three forges A Chimney That Refuse¢ to Obey the Laws of Gravyitation. (From a sketch.] in the building and the one nearest the water suffered the most from the action of the waves. The earth and sand underone side of it were all washed out so that it sank several inches. The strange thing is that the chimney did not go to pieces, but the bricks have held to- gether as if they were glued. When the forge sunk out of plumb the chimney of course went a proportionate distance out of the perpendi- cular. But somehow it shows no disposition to fall over. If chimney and forge were one piece there would be nothing remarkable about 1ts retain- ing an upright position, as the center of weight is within the base of the forge. But, being made of many small pieces, the chimney is practically a separate structure set on top of the forge and the center of its weight is sev- eral inches outside of its base. Most chimneys fall over long before they reach the limit, as the jarring caused by their being thrown out of plumb loosens the bricks, The only possible explanation of the reason the chimney in guesuan does nottall is that the bricks “stick” together. It may be that they were laid in cement instead of mortar. LADYS NIGHT ROBE. - Night robes made in the old-fashioned sack shape, with large sleeves and a big collar, are very pretty and have the advantage of requir- ing less material than other shapes. The back may be made with a bias seam, which avoids plecing at the bottom and cuts to better ad- vantage. The ease with which these gowns may be laundered recommends them to many. Lounging or bath robes are cut after the same model, being liked, as they are less bulky than those with pleats or gathers a¢ the top. B-um is the material used when any nice owns are made.” A sailor collar is made of ne Hamburg edging, which is seamed from all the corners to the neck, to bring all the scellops around the edge. White lawn is also used and with a collar of the same, trimmed on the edge with an inser- tion of Valenciennes lace, and beyond this a ruffie of the plain lawn ‘or of embroidery is verfi dainty. A collar with embroidery set on with braiding through which delicate colored asked Mrs, Cawker. ‘‘One dollar,” replied Mr. Cawker. “When women get the ballot we shall mark it down to 99 cents.”—Harper's Bazar. “What makes you so sure that your husband loves you as much as ever?"’ «Because I never feel called upon to ask him.”—Town Topics. «] don’t see Jimpson any more.” “You are not likely to for some time. He's got a new camera and a baby at his house.”— Cincinnati Enquirer. “Did you give Louise anything for & brida) present?”’ «] gave her & tea-store vase just like the one she gave me.”—Chicago Record. Fair Patient—You are the only physician of all I've consulted who hasn’t advised me to go to Europe. Doctor—They can afford it. They've got more patients than Ihave.—Fliegende Blaetter Mr. Crusty—Where's my change? Walter—Dar ain’t no change, boss; mah tip. Mr. Crusty—But I didn’t tell you you could have it. ‘Waiter—Oh! dat’s all right, boss; I'se forget. ful mahself sometimes.—Puck. HIS ANSWER. (To Her Leap Year Proposal.) «Be your husband?” Why this is so sudden, You really have given me a start! I never imagined one moment That such was the state of your heart I certainly hoped that you liked me, But meraly, of course, a8 friend: I never had dreamed our flirtation Could come to 50 serious an end! dat’s And ob, I'm sorry it happened! 1t grieves me to give you such paia, Since I really and truly must tell you That your hopes are entirely vain. But though I can ne’er be your husband 1 don’t undervalue your charm I'm willing to be your blg broth And even a “ brother in arm —WILLARD HOLCOMB in Washington Post, OF IMPORTANCE TO POPULISTS. Talare County News. We again desire to call the attention of Pop. ulists, throughout the Pacific Coast, to the lib. eral policy presented by the San Franefsco CALL in devoting space to the free expression of the views of able reform writers in its col. umns. While THE CALL s thoroughly Repube lican in politics it is not of that narrows minded variety so noticeable in other leading dailies. We have published some of the: tie cles from the pen of Joseph Asbury Johnson, one of the brainiest reform writers on the coast, but our space precludes the publication of many others which we are anxious our readers should peruse. Should THE CALL continue its liberal course during the present campaign we would advise Populists generally to take that paper in pref. erence to others possessed of less liberality. We have not moticed TuE WEEKLY CaLL to ascertaln whether these articles appear in it or not, but if they do Populists in the country who are so situated 88 to be unable to take a daily paper should give their preference to THE WEEKLY CaALy, and thus not only enable themselves to enjoy the advantages of this department of that paper, but to encourage its commendable course. The People’s party is greatly in need of a newspaper, giving all the current news, but in the absence of such paper should take ade vantage of the next best thing to be had— which 1is, the old party paper giving their ‘cause the fairest treatment. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. CHIEF OFFICERS—J. C. D., Berkeley, Cal. The salary of chief officers of steamers of the mail line range from $125 to $175 per month. DURRANT'S NATIONALITY—J. McL., Auburn, Placer County, Cal. Theodore Durrant is a na- tive of Ontario. His parents are Canadians. TELEPHONE—F. L. C., Selma, Cal. There is a per called the Daily Telephone News pub- i¢hed in New Yotk City that is devoted to the telephone. LADY GUESTS—N. N., Santa Barbara, Cal. There never was an order made that lad %nesu should not be received at the Lic! ouse in this City. THE RICEMOND—Subscriber, Stockton. There is no such battle-ship in the navy of the United States as the Richmond. The roster of the Bal- timore has 400 names on it. BOOKKEEPING—H. E. M., City. Intheevening schools established to afford means of education to boys and girls who are unable to attend the day schools, bookkeeping is taught without cost. La CRIADA—L. C., S8anJose, Cal. The musical recitative piece entitled “La Criada” ssibly be obtained by addressin nquiry to some publisher in where nearly all Spanish or M compositions are published. A PoEx oF LoNe AGo—A. C. poem in which appear the line; She salled one day and came no more— All else Is wrapped in mystery; The surges kneel upoh the shore And tell their sotrows o’er and o'er, Is to be found in one of the school readers titled “The Pacific Coast Series.’” ‘g CLEVELAND'S Acts—T. M., City. While Governor of the State of New York Grover Cleveland vetoed a bill passed by the Legisla- ture fixing the rate of fare on elevated rafle ways at 5 cents. If, as Governor of the State, or s Mayor of Buffalo, he ever performed nny' official act in the direct interest of the work. ingmen his best biographers fail to make mention thereot. 7 MrrroR LAKE—Subscriber, Stockton.. Mirror Lake, in the Yosemite Valley, is a beautiful sheet of water that, when unruffied by breezes, is as smooth &s & mirror, It reflects all the surrounding scenery and anytbing that a proaches it. Early ‘in the morning it refl the rising of the sun, and the visitor to that rtion of the valley witn fion of sunrise on n{s llte.‘ e phanem, AN ELEPHANT’S TONGUE—L. K. N., City, When 8ir Walter Bcott, Bart., wrote in “The Sur- geon’s Daughter,” after descrihing the arrival of the new Killedar on an elephant, ‘“The hu, gnimal approacted the platiorm ihaking h large wrinkled head, which he raised and sunk as if impatient, and curling upwards his trunk from time to time as if to show the gulf of his tongueless mouth,” he wrote without knowl- edge of the animal he was describing, for the elephant has a tongue, but it is tied down. IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT—F, G. J., City. There are a number of States in the Union that in the constitution prohibit imprisonment for debt. The State of New York was the first to abolish imprisonment for debt. This was in 1831, and the other States soon followed the example set, ‘but ina number of Statesa debtor who, through fraud, sceks to wrong his creditors, may prosecutea criminally, and, being convicted, may be sent to jail. may a letter of ew Orleans, exican musi l BTRANGERS, take home Townsend’s California Glace Fruits, 50c 1b. 627 Market, Palace Hotel,, e ———— SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * T — In 1950—“Who is that stylish-looking gentle- man?’ ‘“Why, that is the beautiful Mr. Ellen Jones, nee Robert Smith.”—Chicago Post, Treimpurities which have accumulated fn the body during the winter must be expelled. Every one needs a good spring medicine like Hood's Sar. saparilla, the one true blood purifier. —_——— IMPORTANT CHANGE OF TIME.~The 12th inst. the Northern Pacific Railroad inaugurated adouble dally passenger service between Portland and St. Paul, making 4 saving of ten hours between Port- 1and and Chicago. These are the fastest and finest equipped trains that ever were run out of the Va- cific Northwest. The superior accommodations in Our passenger equipment recommend our line to all. Ours is the only line that runs dining-cars out ribbons are arawn is also pretty. These gowns may be mnse quite elaborate by tucking the goods down the back and front, and also tucking the sleeves. Heavy nightgowns of flannelette or heavy muslin cannot be better made than in this style. The collar may be made of China silk for flannelette gown, to give & dainty touch, fo;efhe silk wears quite as well as the flannel: HUMOR OF THE HOUR. Teacher—Why did Joshua fiuke the sun stand still 7 Tommy—I guess it didn’t agree with his watch.—Indianapolis Herald. “‘What is the amount of the poll tax, John?" of Portland. T. K. STATELER, general agent, clsco. 638 Market street. San Frang —————— ““Mrs. Winslow’ Soothing Syrup’* Has been used over 50 years by millions of mothers for thelr children white Teething with perfect sac- cess. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Patn, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and Is the best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Drug- Bisis In every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 25¢ a bostle. —————— CORONADO.—Atmosphere is pertectl; 3 and misd, and s entirely frea from the mise: oo mon further north. Round-trip tickets, by steam- ship, including fifteen days' board as the Hotal del ‘Coronado, $6; longer stay $2 50 per day. Apply 4 New Monigomery st., San Francisco.