The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 27, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1896. S e b g s e as e s s T LA PR O e Sy MOND AR IR e O T e e e e CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally end Sunday CALL, oneweek, by carrier..g0.15 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mafl.... 6.00 | Daily and Sunday CALY, six months, by mail.. 3.00 | Dally and Sunday CALz, three months by mail 1.50 | Daily and Sunday Cary, one month, by mail. .65 | Eunday CaLL, One year, by mail.. 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, one year, by mall THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on a vacadon? It 10, it is no trouble f0r us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for yon will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt sttentions NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, Californ! Pelephone.. . EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Felephone....... <eeee Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: ontgomery street, corner Clay; open until o'clock. 9 Hayes street; open untll 9:30 o'clock. 713 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. £W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open antil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clook. 116 Minth sireet; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : €08 Broadway. 530 EASTERN OFFICE: Eooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Speclal Agent Tuis week for Santa Rosa. The last festival is always the best. In the glory of her gay fiesta Santa Rosa will be wholly roses. Monopoly talks of refunding, but the people demand foreclosure. The California delegation should taka_n Jook at the National Convention before it leaps. 1t1s only reasonable to expect that our genial sun will show himself at some of the festivals. Every man who assists in making S_an Francisco a home market helps home in- dustries to revive. It begins to look as if we will have to meet the funding bill at this session and fight it to a finish. The hotel men will not carry away the idea that California is in any very oppres- sive need of irrigation. 1 the Populists help the Democrats out fthe hole this year they will be in the hole themselves next year. [here will be many a bolt in the Demo- ¢ convention, but not one of the kind that holds the party together. is a growing suspicion in the startled East that Tillman wishes to pitch- fork himself into the Presidency. The bicycle trade is said to be keeping up with the bicycle racers in breaking records, and the business is scorching, | The tariff plank in the Democratic plat- form this vear will be planed down to the most unobtrusiva smootbness ever seen. n Fennsylvania, where spring started th torrid weather, there has beenal- n outbreak of forest fires to help it rea alor Before this week closes the Republicans of Califor will be virtually ready to ke it unanimous for an unpledged dele- The Populists of the Southern States are a snap inrto the campaign by e Democratic Bourbons as | We may now expect the Huntington rush to take place any day, and California interest in the proceedings of Congress will be lively. An early adjournment of Congress will ody, provided it doesn’t oc- cur before the passage of the immigration restriction bill. Powers has introduced Huntington’s scheme to the House, but perhaps the members will refuse to recognize it far enough to take it up. Many a bill rushed through the House has been made to go slow in the Senate, and the refunding scheme will deubtless prove to be one of them. The California delegation has now a great chance to distingaish itself in main- 1azining the interests of the Government and the rights of the people against the monopo! Whoever is nominated at St. Louis will be the next President of the United Btates, and loyal Republicans will not quarre! among themseives as to which favorite shall win. It is asserted by well-posted men in ‘Washington that Cieveland believes he has made everything safe for a gold bug plat- form at Chicago, and is now thinking about the candidate. There are people who are urgingitas a serious proposition that Harrison made a strong play for a re-election to the Presi- dency when he married a widow and broke away from his son Russell. There is a movement among the Silver Democrats of the Mississippi Valley to make a ticket of Boies and Bland, and if carried through the platform will proba- bly be made up of buncomb and bosh. Don’t forget that Tue CALLis the only morning paper in San Francisco that re- ceives the United Press dispatches. If you wish to get al! the news and get it ac- curate you must read THE CALL every day. It is reported that ina recent hot spell in Australia honey was meited in the bee- bives and smothered the bees, thus af- fording a curious yarallel to the industrial hot wave in this country that meited the free-trade tariff and smothered the Demo- crats. The Republican party has not only many strong men as candidates for the Presidency, but many strong measures for them te advocate. Protection, bimetal- lism, reciprocity, internal improvements and sulsidies for American shipping make in the aggregate as great a policy as any party ever undertook. In the mean- time Democracy is upa tree, and a dead tree at that. THE RAILROAD BILL. Chairman Powers has presented the ma- jority report of the Senate Committee on Pacific Roads for the refunding of the debt owed by the aided railroads. Itcontains the familiar features upon which the roads have insisted, and therefore contains noth- ing new. The report accompanying the bill, however, is so remarkable a produc- tion that it cannot be permitted to pass without notice. It is a special plea from the railroad point of view, and embodies the glaring misrepresentations which have been so often refuted and without which the presentation of the bill would have been impossible. It studiously ignores every argument against refunding, and could not have been more unfair and partisan had it been written by the rail- road attorneys themselves. It says, for instance, that “‘the acts of Congress prescribing the provision to be made by the companies for the repayment of bonds and the interest thereon have all been fully complied with by the com- panies.” It confesses, however, that the acts passed to provide for this discharge of the debts have not succeeded in accom- plishing that end. This has reference principally to the Thurman act, which provided for a sinking fund. Thus the report places all the blame for the failure on the acts of Congress and none whatever on the aided roads. It completely ignores the notorious fact that the earnings of the Central Pacifie were not only crippled by the building of the Southern Pacific to New Orleans and by a necessary division of the traffic, but were actually and de- liberately used in building up the Southern Pacific, probably for the express purpose of preventing the accumulation of an ade- quate sinking fund for the Central Pacific and the payment of its debt by that means. The impoverishment of that fund bas given an excuse for refunding, and that was doubtless what the Central Pacific was aiming to accomplish. Meanwhile the owners of the road have enjoyed those earnings and the Government has been deprived of them. Was that a full compli- ance with the provisions of the acts? The entire report bristles with evidence of this eager partisanship. Bald misstate- ments abound. It asserts that for the Government to enter into possession would necessitate the immediate payment of $81,- 385,000 of first mortgage bonds, and ig- nores the fact that the holders of the bonds are not only willing but too anxious to accept Government bonds in their stead bearing a low rate of interest. The report assumes that foreclosure would resultin Government ownership, whereas no ground whatever for such an assumption exists, for as the Central Pacific is the shortest and most valuable overland road and would yield handsome revenues under honest management it would undoubtedly find purchasers at a handsome figure. The excuse for the bill is the cool as- sumption that the roads will be more hon- est in the future than in the past. In order, however, to provide against possible dishonesty the bill increases the securty. That is a cuariously paradoxical position. The increase of the secarity will only make foreclosure in case of default more diffi- cult. Meanwhile the Southern Pacificcan play with another competing road from California to Salt Lake the old trick that it played upon the Central Pacific in order to avoid paying the debt hanging over it. A DEFECTIVE LAW. The Sacramento Bee has had a remark- able experience with the libel laws and is justly demanaing that they be amended. As the matter is of great importance, af- fecting the general community as well as threatening the entire press of the State, the history of the case will prove instruct- ive. In August, 1892, a S8acramento merchant was arrested on complaint of a woman ser- vant charging him with criminal assault. The Bee, following one of the most firmly established rules of journalism, secured an interview with the woman, in which she gave the particulars of the assauit, although her statement, unlike the com- plaint, was that only an attempt at as- sault had been made. In the same article giving this interview and the news of the issuance of the warrant the Bee published an interview with the merchant, in which a denial of the truth of the charge was made. All this, as every newspaper pub- lisher is aware, was following an estab- lished rule of newspapers to publish both sides of a sericus charge in the main- tenance of a perfectly fair and impartial attitude. The examining magistrate held the mer- chant to answer on the woman’s charge, but the defendant was discharged on habeas corpus procesdings. He then brought a suit for damages in $50,000 against the Bee. The case was tried in the Superior Court without a jury and judag- ment was rendered against the Bee for $500. The Supreme Court has recently sustained an appeal from this judgment. While the text of that decision is notat hand, the inference seems to be that news- papers run counter to the law of libel under this decision when they publish, in addition to the allowable news furnished by a criminal complaint, the detailed statement of the complaining witness, even though the defendant's contrary statement is published at the same time and no desire to work him an injustice is presumable, This is the Bee's interpretation of the decision, and it is the best position to understand the matter. The law as it stands thus puts a severer gaz on the press of this State than exists in any other civilized country, and it is one that ex- ‘poses the public as well as the press toa wide range of dangers. It is, therefore, incumbent on the newspapers of Califor- nia to urge such an amending of the law as will make it conform to modern ideas of liberty and enlightenment. DECREASING REVENUES. Our Democratic friends will have some difficulty in explaining a number of things when the campaign is fairly opened. As yet they have given us no intimation of the line of defense they propose to take. The country is greatly interested over guesses as to how the Democrats can ex- plain away the relation between decreased internal revenues and free trade. By attempting to increase revenues for gov- ernmental purposes through a tax on in- comes the Democratic party confessed that it did not expect the Wilson-Gorman tarift to produce as large revenue customs asa protective tariff did, but doubtless the party never took into account the possi- bility of free trade curtailing internal rey- enues as well. It is true that an increase of 20 cents a galion was made in the tax on spirits, but the assumption is that this was expected to produce a clear increasein internal revenues to that extent. Doubtless Mr. Cleveland has been aston- ished as well as dismayed to discover that even with this increase 1n the tax on spirits the internal revenues have failen off enor- mously since the Wilson-Gorman bill went. into effect in October, 1894. The bill had been in force for nineteen months down to the close of last month. But during that time the internal revenue receipts were $201,069,812, as against $231,222,122 for the first nineteen months during which the McKinley law was in force. This is a dif- ference of more than $30,000,000, and we may expect the monthly average to con- tinue until the present tariff is abolished for a protective measure. Nothing else should have been expected. ‘When producers and manufacturers are compelled to go out of business by reason of impossible competition with the cheap standards of Europe there is bound to be financial distress. Hard times make econ- omy necessary, and the internal revenues must suffer in consequence. E While this deficit in internal revenues is going bravely on there is, of course, a sim- ilar deficit in revenues on imports. The| total customs receipts for the first nine- teen months of the McKinley tariff were $566,919,004, and those of the Wilson- Gorman tariff for a similar period were | $481,423,501, showing a difference of over $85,000,000 for only nineteen months. This is particulariy instructive, in view of the fact that one of the most stoutly urg.cd Democratic objections to a protective tariff was that it could not produce suffi- cient revenues, and that the encourage- ment of importations by offering low im- port charges under free trade would vastly Increase the revenues. Thus Democratic free trade has reduced both import and internal revenue receipts. And yet these are but the smallest of its evils. In the hardships and ruin that have been imposed on American indus- tries we see the deecper and more far- reaching effects of this un-American idea. HARMONY AND PROGRESS. The movement for the consolidation of all the improvement clubs of the City is the most encouraging evidence of an in- telligent co-operation that has ever ap- peared in the growth of San Francisco. It points to an early breaking down of sec- tional jealousies, to a fairer distribution of municipal funds for public improvements, and to the wider cultivation of a progres- sive spirit. The improvement clubs, as we under- stand them, are those which have been or- ganized in certain districts for improve- ments within restricted limits. Besides seeking to secure for themselves a fair share of the public funds, these districts cultivate public spirit among their resi- dents, to the end that improvements prop- erly made by private expenditure shall receive prompt attention. These are strictly sectional organizations, and they have been accomplishing a great deal of good for themselves directly and for the City at large indirectly. Besides these are comprehensive organizations working to the same end on somewhat different lines. They are not organized by districts, but are composed of residents from all parts of the City. Among these are the Mer- chants’ Association, the Boulevard Asso- ciation, and the Cycling Board of Trade. No scheme for the organization of im- provement clubs would be complete with- out including them. The plan of organization contemplates a central working body comused of repre- sentatives of the various component bodies. This central body will sit as a court of justice and promotion. The power which it will be able to wield will be enormous, and care will have to be taken that this power be not abused. So far as we are informed the idea in its present shape is a novelty, and as such it will be an experiment requiring the highest judgment in its trial. Not the least of its difficult problems which will show themselves will be a wise adjust- ment of the needs of the City in the way of improvements and the public ability to supply them. In weighing this matter the best method for raising money will be quite as important as the amountrequired. It is sufficient for the present merely to hint at these matters. The main thing now is to congratulate the City on the birth of a true co-operative spirit that will eventually redeem the City fromits present backwardness and set it fairly in the road to the greatness which awaits it. From considering the immediate needs of the City itself this movement will be extended in time to the fostering of the State condi- tions on which the prosperity of the City depends. As the metropolis of California San Francisco has a duty lying far be- yond the municipal boundaries. COAST EXCHANGES. The Yreka Journal says that James Palmer, J. A. Davis, David E. Miles and ‘W. J. Branstetter have incorporated the McCloud Valley Railroad with a capital of $1,000,000 and that construction will soon begin. The road is to run from Mott into Squaw Valley to tap the splendid for-| ests of sugar pine and spruce abounding on the great plateau south of Mount Shasta, and will ultimately be extended to Lassen County. Our exchange there- fore predicts lively times for the mountain region of Northern California. The tim- ber region to be penetrated contains, next to the region along the upper Rogue River in Oregon, the finest and most extensive body of sugar pine in the world. The San Bernardino Indez furnishes complete particulars of the transfer of the Nevada Southern Railroad under foreclos- ure sale. It was bought by an Eastern company, which intends to extend the road to Goode Springs, Nevada. Concern- ing the plans of company its attorney, Judge Dillon, said: *Our company will proceed in a novel manner in the way of construction and will put into service one thing which is entirely new. The California Eastern Transportation Company will precede the California Eastern Railroad Company, and the former will be operated by means of steam wagons—motocycles. These will be used for the double purpose of carrying on the work of the transportation com- pany and making the grade for the exten- sion of the road. We believe that they can be operated successfully and more economically than teams, and will serve to establish a line through to Goode Springs at once.” Meanwhile the San Bernardino Times- Index contirms the rumor that the Santa Fe is preparing to make provision for the approaching loss of the Atlantic and Pa- cific. The Southern Pacific will likely re- sume possession of that part between Mo- jave and The Needles, and the stretch from The Needles - to Albuquerque will be sold under execution. The Santa Fe, therefore, is preparing to build from Bar- stow and take in Victor and Oro Grande on the northeasterly march. With the Southern California line aiready in its pos- session the Santa Fe will have a complete and independent system penetrating the southern end of the State. A curious example of the benefits accru- ing from raiiroad competition 1s furnished thus by the Orange County Herald: As a result of the opening of the new electric line from Los Angeles to Santa Monica the railroads between those two points have dropped the fare down to 85 cents, and there is a probability that it will yet be reduced to 25 cents. Hitherto the Southern Pacific Company held a monopoly of this traftic. If the announcement made by the San Bernardino Times-Indez on the authority of 0. D. Gass is true, Southern California has aiscovered a new source of wealth not inferior to its petroleum deposits. Mr. Gass says he has found a ledge of coal in Richie Canyon that is fourteen feet in width on the surface and which he has traced for a considerable aistance. He says the coal is bituminous and of excel- lent quality, and states that he will thor- oughly exploit the indicaticns. Thus far the “coals” aiscovered south of Mount Diablo have been lignites. As a rule the geological indicetions are not favorable to the discovery of true coal, but as Califor- nia is constantly presenting surprises the incredible may be expected to happen at any time. The Stockton Independent says: Plans have been filed with the County Recorder for a large creamery to be erected in Wood- bridge. The plans bear the names of many well-known ranchers from that part of the country, among whom are H. Beckman, Jobn Keller, R. J. Parsons, William Beck- man, W. Lanherst, J. Hutchins, H. C. Beckman, J. C. Thompson, F. W. Edson, T. E. Jones, H. F. Beckman, George M., J. 8., Walter and* Ado Pittman, David Kei- tleman, A. H. Cowell, A. Boyce and Al- fonso Jones. The growth of the dairy in- terest has been so rapia within the last three years that the time is near when California will be an exporter instead of an importer of butter and cheese. The Fresno Watchman furnishes encour- aging news from the new oil region in the Coast Range foothills near Coalinga, southwest of Fresno. Wells are being rap- idly sunk, some already producing gener- ously, and now there is a movement on foot for a refinery. It has been so long since Bodie was at the height of its fame throughits rich gold mines that it is encouraging to see the Mining Indez of that place calling atten- tion to the still undeveloped mineral wealth of that district and the ease ana profit with which it may be brought to light by the employment of eleciric power. Says our contemporary : If these mines, operated in 2 small way, with limited facilities, return to practical men twice as much for their labor as they can earn elsewhere, besides paying a gen- erous royalty to the owners, how much more could they be made to yield if oper- ated on an extensive scale, in & compre- hensive manner? The Los Angeles Times, discussing the recent wonderful gold discovery in the Mo- jave Desert already announced by TmE CaLr, corroborates the first report that the ore yields almost incredible returns, The ledge is at Randsburg, fifty miles northeast of Mojave. The average yield is about $65 a ton. A new vein, discovered by H. C. Ramey and B. B. Somers, runs from $8000 to $10,000. The vein is inclosed in a mica schist formation, and the ques- tion is as to whether it will hold out. Our exchange aads: Unfortunately, there are some serious drawbacks to the development of the Randsburg properties. There is no mill there for reducing the ore, and all the water used has to be hauled from Cow Wells, twelve miles distant, and sells for $2 a barrel. Water for milling purposes could be had, however, by boring at a point only six or eight miles distant. There is a small mill at Cow Wells, but it is ut- terly inadequate to the demand, and at present ore is piled on every dump, wait- ing for the mill., Mr. Smith believes that electricity will eventually solve the prob- lem for this and bundreds of other mining properties in the desert region which are now practically unproductive for lack of power to operate mills. The distatce to Kern River is only thirty-two miles. If the abundant energy which that river could furnish were conducted by wire to these mines it would result in industrial activity in this whole region, and the development of untold wealth. It seems odd that a daelightful town which never has any really cold weather should be called Winters, and thatis what has set the Winters Kapress to telling of the superb attractions offered by that choice spot in the Sacramento Valley. Its shipping of fruit to the Golden Gate City is only a fourtn, 2nd a small quarter at that, of its production. From Winters 200 cars carry green fruit to the East, and it takes seventy cars filled with dried fruit to partly meet Eastern requirements. Be- sides this it has numerous other indus- tries and a long list of opportunities for the profitable investment of capital. According to the Santa Maria Times, Someo, the present terminus of the Santa Margarita terminus of the Southern Pa- cific, is growing rapidly. Lumber is al- ready on the ground for a large hotel. The Otay Press thus announces a valua- ble discovery : Few people are aware that hazel nuts, so common to people from the Middle States, can be successfully raised in thisportion of the State. They have been tried, how- ever, with great success. They will bear abundantly from the first year of planting, and the second and third year they will produce nuts vlentifully enough to insure a very handsome profit to the grower. The market price of hazel nuts is from 12 to 15 cents per pound, and t! ose who have tried them state that from $500 to $1000 per acre can be made in their culture. Mrs. C. M. Austin, who has so ably edited the Moreno Indicator, has been suc- ceeded by Will L. Fetter. The Nevada Tribune, Reno, shows great vigor under the new management of C. A. Norcross & Co. The Butter Independent has entered on its tenth year with a large and steadily increasing subscription list and the confi- dence and respect of its readers. Leading Republicans at Ogden have taken steps to start a strong paver there advocating free silver and protection. Hueneme is proud of its enlarged, pros- perous and enterprising Herald. The Redlands Citrograph sits perched on the graves of many of its dead competitors, while extending a hospitable hand to a new paper ready to enter the field. Now that the Salt Lake Tribune is twenty-five years old it ieels a sober dig- nity tempering its aggressive energy. The Amador Record looks handsome in the new form, which an increase of its business made necessary. The Santa Monica Qutlook has received the added strength of D. G. Holt’s assist- ance as owner in partnership with Robert C. Gillis. Edward Wasson and Wilbert Cobler are now ably furnishing the illuminating power for Ehs Riverside Searchlight. Larkspur, Marin County, now has a bright little weekly called the Record, edited by W. H. Purtelle. San Jose has an able new Populist paper, the New Charter, published by Elgin C. Hurlbert and M. W, Wilkins. The Telephone is an aggressive new Popu- list paper published at Oskland by I. Van Buskirk ana A. Bretz. The Guadalupe Standard has been en. larged and shows other evidence of a richly deserved success. The Tuolumne Independent is com- placently aceepting the flattering congratu- lations it is receiving since beginning its twenty-fifth volume. The Ventura Independent, successor to the Advocate, has at once caught the ad- miration and support of that section. The Sutter County Farmer has entered upon its sixteenth volume with a success- ful pastand a hopeful future. L. D. Clark is about to begin the publica- tion of the Saturday Mercury at Palermo, Butte County. SAID ABOUT MR. CLEVELAND. 1f Cleveland is bigger than his party it is be- cause he has knocked his party into a cocked hat.—Chattanooga News. President Cleveland is very coy for & leap- year candidate. He cannot be induced to de- clare his intentions.—Buffalo News. Mr. Cleveland may be & great sportsman among statesmen, and a great statesman among sportsmen, but he is & poor statesman among AROUND THE CORRIDORS. E. D. Kelly, president of the Nevada Press Associati who is here with the members of the organization from the Sagebrush State, is the oldest eaitor in Nevada. He has had a career full of interest, nnfl_u owner and editor of the RenoJournal, a min- ing silver peper, he has made himself felt in his State. But he started and successfully con- ducted several other papers before he settled no. . dol‘lv: ;‘e}{l; was in the famous \\'hi_!e Pine ex- citement, and he was at Virginia City when_n was & hustling camp. Likewise he has been in many other like places, visiting them and hay- ing to do with them more or less, as long as they lasted. The father of Nevada journalism was born in New York, but came to Iowa in his youth ln_d seitled in Davenport. He got the California gold fever carly and set out for the mines. «I crossed the plains into California,” he said yesterday at the Occidental,“and never wanted tosee the Humboldt plains again. ButI was back in Humboldt in 1861 and established the first newspaper there. “1t was ‘:hle)eflumboldl Register at Unionville. Eight years later 1 took the materal to Elko and established the Elko Independent, a paper that is running yet and the editor is here. «] s0ld out the Independent and returned to E. D. Kelly, President of the Nevada Press Association, the Oldest Editor in Nevada and Owner of the Reno State Journal. (Sketched from life by a “Call” artist.] statesmen, and not much of a sportsman among sportsmen.—Kansas City Journal. . Various recent rumors seem to indicate that President Cleveland wrote a letter declining | the nominsation, and then lost it.—New York Press. President Cleveland is firmly of the opinion that the American people do not take sufficient interest in the play ‘‘Called Back.”—Chicego Dispatch. As Grover Cleveland is busy. the American people will take it upon themselves to refuse, in Mr. Cleveland’s behalf, a third term.—Wich- ita Engle. Grover writes that he approves of Shakes- peare. Had William lived until now Grover would have been glad to have shaken hands with him, and put him on his visiting list. In fact, Grover inclines to the belief that, barring one, Shakespeare was about as big & man as ever lived.—St. Louis Star. 1t is remarked that Mr. Cleveland did not go with the faithful on their recent pilgrimage to the tomb of Jefferson. Mr. Cleveland prob- ably thinks that Jefferson should be permiited tosleep. If Democrats would do less taling about Jefferson and more about Jefferson's lat- est successor they world please Mr. Cleveland better.—Kansas City Journal. JIM'S CHAMPION. When Jim was dead,’ “Hit sarved him right,” the nabors sedy An’ ’bused bim for the life he'd led, An’ him a-lying ther at rest With not a rose upon his breast: Ah! many a cruel word they sed When Jim was dead. «Jes' Killed hisself !” “Too mean ter live!" They didn’t hev one word ter give Of comfort as they hovered near An’ gazed on Jim a-lying there! “Thar aln'tfno use ter talk,” they se@ “He's better dead " But suddenty the room growed still, While God's white sunshine seemed ter filf The dark place with & gleam of life. An’ o'er the dead she beni—Jim's wife! A’ with her lips close, close to his, As though he knew and fe ¢ the kiss, She sobbed—a touchin’ sight to see— “Ah, Jim was always good ter me!” I tell you when that come to light 1: kinder set (he dead man right, ‘An’ round the weepin’ woman they Throwed kindly arms of love that day, An’ mingled with her own they shed The teaderest tears —when Jim was dead. FRANK L. STANTON. PARAGRAPHS ABCUT PEOPLE. Sir Robert Ball says the sun is shrinking at the rate of nine inches daily. At the Hotel Drouot, Paris, one of the fa- mous hats of the first Napoiean was hotly con. tested for, and finally knocked down at 525 francs. Dr. P. Esternaux, a Frenchman, has been chosen by Emperor William to act as tutor to his two sons waen they enter the cadet school at Ploen. Paul Verlaine, in addition to a bust in the “Poet Corner” of Luxembourg Gardens, is to have a similar honor paid him at Nancy. Pos- =ibly Metz, where Verlaine was born, will fol- low suit. Field Marshal Yamsgata’s military rank is higher than that of any other foreigner who has ever visited this country. Foreign gener- als of various grades have been entertained here, but a fleld marshal is & novelty. Lr. William Howard Russell, the famous war correspondent of the Londoun Times, is 75 years of age. He has been connected with the Thunderer since 1843. He corresponded with that journal during the Crimean war, the In- dian mutiny, the American civil war, the Prusso-Austrian and tho Franco-German wars, The Jews in Russia have lost one of their best friends by the death of Dr. Sergius Alexan- drovitch Berschadski, professor of the Imper- ial University and the Lyceum in St. Peters- burg. He had nota drop of Jewish blood in his veins, but he devoted the greater part of his short-lived career to the interests of that race, and particularly to researches into their history in Russia, Poland and Lithuania. Humboldt County fflocating at Winnemucea. where I started the Silver State. Iran that paper twenty years and then sold out and beught the State Journal at Reno. “I took charge in January, 1891, and am publishing a daily and weekly. The paper is for silver straight. That is the whole story. Iwould go for any tariff or none, to remone- tize silver. Thatisall the politics I have got. The Daily State Journal is published every morning. Itis 24x36 inches in size. Getting the press dispatches is about the heaviest cost. “The Nevada Press Association was organ- ized last fall. This is the first excursion we have ever had and every one of us has enjoyed it to the fullest extent.” PERSONAL. C. E. Clark, U.S.N., arrived at the Californis last night. Dr. L. L. Young, U. 8, N., is among the Palace guests. at the Baldwin, John Sparks, the cattle king of Reno, Nev., is a Palace guest. John B. Farish, a mining engineer of Den- night. Lieutenant D. M. Addison, U. 8. N., is regis- tered at the Palace. registered at the California. rived at the Grand vesterday. Ben Cirkle of Chicago, whose interests are in Colorado mines, is at the Baldwin. A. T. Ferguson, a hotel man of Baker City, Or., is & guest at the Cosmonolitan. among the arrivals at the Lick yesterday. Richard Inch and Elliot Snow, two naval officers from Mare Island, are at the Occi- dental. yesterday. mopolitan. guests of the Russ. Judge Edgar Alarich of the United States Circuit of New Hampshire, isat the Occidental, registered from Littleton. his wife on a bridal tour of the West. George J. Cook, who controls. L interests in Canada, isat the his wife and Miss Harri Toronto. posa for Honolulu. J. A. Morgan Russ. simply for pleasure. way home; he is at the Grand. in Ogden and in Grand Junction, Col the Palace, registered from Salt Lake City. Thomas Hopper and wife of Santa Rosa are ver, Colo., took apartments at the Palace last J.N. Hawley, a merchant of New York, is John Raggio, a merchant of San Andreas, ar- F. D. Nicol, the Stockton attorney, was Dr. Hermen Falk and M, Falk of Hamburg and Dr. Baessler of Berlin arrived at the Palace A. F. Tenny, preprietor of the Tenny Packing Company,with his wife are staying at the Cos W. J. Hotchkiss, who is interested in the {ruit cannery at Healdsburg, is smong the E. M. McIntire, & wholesale grocer of Day- ton, Ohio, arrived at the Palace yesterday with 'ge lumber ccidental with registered from G. R. Saunders, one of the directors of the street railway of Pleasanton, Kans.,is at the Russ with his wife. They willsail in the Mari- d wife of Chicago are at the Mr. Morgan is interested in mining properties in Colorado and his visit here is Dr. C. W. Nutting, & physician of Etna, Cal., who has been in attendance at La Fiesta de Los Angeles witn his two boys, is here on his J. H. Flughes, the proprietor of a large whole. sale fruit and produce company, with branches ,isat oris, Il The whole party has just come from a visit in Southern California and ere contiau- ing what is an extensive pleasure trip. Stanford University law students nr‘:i?cnét’i'xy[tm:n last night to ybe on hand to take the bar examinations in the. Superior Court to-day. The embryo lawyess are: J,C. Applewhite, P. R. Frost, M. L. Anfenger, N, E, Malcolm and W. C. Daub. Henley Booth, the young attorney and news- paper correspondent of Santa Berbara and sce- retary of the County Republican Committee, who took the part of the wrestler in the out- door presentation of “As You Like It” during the flower carnival, is a guest of the Grand. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. She—When you married me you said you were well off. He—I was, but I did not know it.—Vanity. “What is the best sign of spring weather?” “That deiightful fecling which makes you want to sit down and watch other people work.”’—Chicago Record. He (in an argument)—Well, thank goodness, I'm not two-faced. She—You ought to be thankful. One face like yours is enough.—Texas Siftings. They seemed 1o be exceedingly ‘Well suited each to each; He was the apple of her eye, And he thought her a peach. —Detroit Tribune. Fond Parent—Here are two sixpences for you, Bobby, to put in your little bank. Bobby—I'd rather have a shilling, if you've got it, pa. Fond Parent—What for? Bobby—'Cos it won't go through the hole.— London Tit-Bits. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. BANK OF ENGLAND COIN—C. L., Fortuna, Hum« boldt County, Cal. A $1 piece issued by the Bank of England in 1804 can be purchased for from $2 50 to $3 50. A Car—F. J. P., City. The diagram of the cap in your communication is that of the ca; worn by the Metropolitan police of New Yor] & numoer of years ago. CLEVELAND'S CHILDREN—N. H. R., Stockton, Cal. President and Mrs. Cleveland have three children, all daughters—Ruth, born No- yember 3, 1891; Esther, born September 9, 1893, and Marion, born July 7, 1893, ExMA YAW—F. J. P., City. The anecdote ale luded to probably refers to Emma Yaw, whose wonderful high notes have attracted the at- tention of so many, but this department is un- able to furnish the date of the publication. PHOTOGRAPHY—B. B. E., City. As this de- partment is not advertising “the best book to obtain help to an amateur in photography,” it must advise you to call on any first-class denéer in books and he will tell you what you need. RAZORS—C. G., City. There are a number of places in the United States where razors are made—blades and handles. Razors are made in San Francisco; Springfield, Boston, North Hadley and Worcester, Mass.; Philadelphia, and in Bridgeport and Sonthington, Conn. Jouxsox’s PoLrrics—M. E. K., Maders, Cal. On the 17th of September, 1873, a Democratic State Convention in session in Sacramento named the Democratic State Central Commit- tee, and Grove L. Johnson was one of that committee. In 1880 Grove L. Johnson was member of the committee on resolutions of thy Republican State Convention that met in Sac. ramento on the 29th of April. PRINCE OF WaLEs—H. H. R., Stockton, Cal. The following are the names ot the children born to the Prince and Princess of Wales: Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, born January 8, 1864, died January 13, 1892; George Fred- erick, Duke of York, captain in British navy, born June 8, 1865, married July 6, 1893, to Princess Victoria Mary (May) of Teck; Louise, born February 20, 1867, married July 27 to Duke of Fiie; Victoria, born Jjuly 6, 1868; Maria, born November 26, 1869; Alexander, born April 6, 1871, died the following day. YOUNG GIRL'S DRESS. A pattern 1s here shown which is paricularly well adapted to the making of graduation dresses, or dresses of washable materials. China and foulard silks,and tafletas develop ‘well after this model, as well as challies and the softer materials of wool. A noveity wool of blue, white and brawn checks was very daintily mads with a blue nd brown changeable taffeta for the full partsof the waist. A blue crepon had these same gathered parts of the waist open all over embroidered ecru batiste, which was finished off with ribbon around the WF and at the waist. Dresses of gingham are daintily trimmed as shown in the illustration, with narrow frills of embroidery. The turn-over scant ruffie on the collar is one of the new fads, White lawn trimmed in the same way is ex- uisite. with collar, belt and shoulder-bows oi resden ribbon, the collar and belt being fine ished with bows at the back. STRANGERS, take home Townsend’s California Glace Fruits, 50 Ib. 627 Market, Palace Hotel, ———— SPECIAL information daily to manufscturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * —————— Lord Rutherford Clark, a Scotch Judge, is a nimble old gentleman of 70 who hes twice ‘won the first prize for golf at Cannes. Do not put off taking & spring medicine. Little afiments if Deglected Will s0on break up tho sys- tem. Take Hood's Sarsaperilla now to expel disease and give you health and strength, . e e IMPORTANT CHANGE OF TIME.~The 12th fnst. the Northern Pacific Refiroad insugurated adoubls daily passenger service between. Portland and St Paul, making » saving of ten hours between Port- 1and and Chicago. These are the fastest and finess equipped trains that ever were run out of the Va- cific Northwest, The superior accommodations in our'passenger equipment recommend our line o all. Ours is the oply line that runs dlzing-cars ous Count James Pourtales, who visited here with his Countess several weeks aRo, is at the Palace. Heis heavily interested in Colorado mines and was one of the first developers of Cripple Creek mines. His home is in Colorado Springs. of Portland. T. K. STATELER, general agent, 638 Market street San Francisco. “*Mrs. Winalow’s Soothing Syrap'’ Has been used over59 years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect s> cess. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Drus- gl8ts In every part of the world. Bo surs and s for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 25¢ @ boitle. Professor R. A. F. Penrose Jr., two years ago non-resident lecturer in geology at Stanford University, arrived at the Palace last night from Philadelphia, sccompenied by Lewin W. Barringer and D. M. Barringer, also of Phila- delphia. B.F. Ray and C. Baittcher, Denver capital- ists, arrived at the Occidental last night with their wives and a party consisting of J. T. Ray 80d Miss Ray of Muskegon, Mich., E. P. Eli- -Wwood of De Kalb, Ill., and J. F. Stewart of Pe- CORONADO.—Atmosphere i3 perfectly dry, 55t and mild, and fs entirely free from the mlisis com mon further north. Round-trip tickets, by sieam- ship, including fifteen days’ board at the Hotel dal Coronado, $60; longer stay $3 50 perday. APHY 4 New Monigomery st., San Franicisea