The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 11, 1896, Page 6

THE S FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGQE, Editor and Proprietor. —————— SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one Week, by carrier..$0.15 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mafl.... 6.00 Daily end Sunday CALL, six menths, by mall. 3.00 Dally and Sunday CALL, three montbs by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CaLr, one month, by mail. .65 Bunday CALL, one year, by malil.. 1.50 WEEELY CALL, Oné year, by mall. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on a vacation ? " 40, it is no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your ddress. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given 1o the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt attentions ¥O EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, b isco, California. I\lopno:n IR Maln-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: B17 Clay Street. Felepbone....... ... . Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 8§30 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open untfl 9:80 o'clock. 839 Hayes street: open untfl 9:80 o'clock. 718 Larkin street: open until 9:80 o'clock. EW. corner Sixteenth and Mission sireets; open il § o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock. 316 Ninth street; open until 9 o’cioek. OAKLAND OFFICE : 208 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: fooms 81 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York Clty. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent Y 11, 1898 A word to Republicans, organize. Work and wages is the workingman's issue in this campaign. It is never too early to begin bringing in recruits for the campaign. Democracy, like an old carpet, cannot be cleanea without being beaten. By this time next year the revival will be realized and all the wheels running. It seems we are near enough out of the woods in the funding bill fight to begin to shout a little. The best way to keep posted on the cam- paign is to subscribe for THE CALL and read it every day. Fighting Democracy in these days is a good deal like jabbing at a ghost—there is nothing to oppose the lick. The inventor of the McKinley Cabinet lie deserves a monument, but he should be furnished with a grave first. No Democrat may desire to renominate Cleveland, but he seems to be the only man in his party above the horizon. assm ettt o i, Make as many predictions as you please about the winner at the St. Louis couven- tion, but don’t bet your money on it. Carlisle explaining the bond deal to the Senate Investigating Committee is going o be one of the circuses of the season. The State Convention may harmonize Democratic factions in this City, but what wiil harmonize the factions at Chicago? Populism has the floor at Sacramento this week, and nearly every man in the crowd will try to get it first and keep it longest. A DANGEROUS BAIT. Tre Carv’s information concerning the efforts of the Southern Pacific Company to make three-year contracts with San Joaquin Valley shippers comes from a trustworthy source and points to an in- teresting condition of affairs. The news is to the effect that it is selecting certain shippers on whose ability to keep a secret it can depend, and is offering them special low rates to secure their traffic, the pur- pose being to cripple the business of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad as much as possible. It is pre- sumable that this work is being prosecuted among the merchants of San Francisco as well as the merchants and producers of the San Joaquin. This presumption is based on the common knowledge that some years ago, when a sironz Eastern railroad company took steps to run a com- peting overland road to San Francisco, it found that the Central Pacific had become aware of its intention and had made special contracts covering a large part of the traffic. The enterprise was abandoned and San Francisco remained at the mercy of a monopoly. These efforts to shat out competition are never made unless the new invader of the field shows a formidable power. The Val- ley road is backed by men of great wealth, ability and determination, and it is the most serious threat that the Southern Pacific has ever encountered. Its im- portance as & competitor could receive no higher compliment than that which the Southern Pacific is paying itin this matter of special contracts. It has entered the field with the backing of earn- est, wealthy and patriotic men, has intro- duced the radical innovation of framing its tariffs to secure a reasonable return on the investment and has won the sympathy and confidence of the public. It is the most dangerous rival that the Southern Pacific has ever met, and these endeavors to secure special contracts whereby some shippers are to be benefited at the expense of othersis a complete acknowiedgment of the fact. Buch a development as this has doubt- less been expected by the Valley road pro- moters and they are not alarmed. They have confidence in the wisdom of the peo- ple and donot believe that any consider- able number of shippers can be induced to pursue the suicidal, unbusinesslike and unpatriotic.course that has been opened to them. They believe that a very large ma- jority of the people whom the new roaa will serve appreciate this great opportu- nity to develop the resources and advance the prosperity of the State. It might be in order for the wiser people along the route to take such stepsas will protect them from this menace of the Southern Pacific, as their interests are threatened far more seriously than those of the Val- ley road. There is no likelihood that the danger will assume serious proportions, but prompt attention at the beginning would destroy it. A BANERUPT PARTY. 1f Becretary of Agriculture Morton is not journeying West in the interestof Mr. Cleveland’s third-term boom, he should be more cautious about the language he em- ploys. But there is no doubt that the gold monometallists of the Democratic party have fully made up their minas, at the suggestion of Mr. Cleveland himself, it may be, that he is the strongest and safest man of their party to lead in the coming campaign. The Democratic party, or rather the ma- chinery of the party, is altogether under the control of the golaites, and rather than that the party should achieve victory on a free-sitver platform they would cheerfully accept defeat if they can hola out the or- ganization. They appear to believe sin- cerely that with Mr. Cleveland as the Through all the grand song of protec- tion to American industry there should run the California refrain of home indus- try first. There will be no campaign of eduncation needed this year; the people understand the sitnation thoroughly and are ready to vote now. —_— The surest way for farmers to get good prices for their products is to vote with the Republicans for protection and bi- metailism. —— Once more suffering Sacramento is about to become a political storm center, and even she must begin to find the thing monotonous. From a Democratic standpoint, the Republican oiganization will soon seem like a gigantic threshing maching ready for operation. Now that the Senate has decided to in- vestigate the bond deals it will be just as well for the House to go slow on the ad- journment proposition. After the conventions are over, it will be the proper thing for the State to whirl in and give Sacramento a festival by way of a recompense and a rest. Republicans cannot afford to despise the enemy in tiis contest, for, though few Democrats are seen in the field, there are lois of them in the woods. 1f Sacretary Morton comes to California to study agriculture he will come to the right place, but if he comes to talk third term he is away off his beat. About every other day a report comes that either Allison, Morton, Reed or Quay has withdrawn from the Presidential race, but next day it is gone again. The absence of any British free-trade circulars going round the country this year isa fair sign that we are goine to have a cleaner campaign than usnal. Business men who have hitherto voted the Democratic ticket ought to come out at once for the party of business and pros- perity and cure their own party of its free- trade folly. _The young man who is to cast his first Presidential vote this fall should join some Republican club, and put in good work as well as a good vote for patriotism, protection and prosperity. s began to elevate the general murmur, but just think what a Democratic harmony meet- ing would be like if some of them bad un- dertaken to elevate politics, The Hon. J. Sterling Morton, Secretary of the Interior, will please take notice on his arrival here that our Weather Bureau needs fixing. We wish it put back like it used to be when May was lovely. As it is said the Democratic State Con- vention will try to harmonize the two fac- tions of the party in this City, we may look out for the appearance of a third fac- tion calling itself “‘the harmonizers.” If intelligent Populists will study che Republican State platform impartially, they will find it broad enough and strong enough for them as well as for Republi- cans. Asa matter of fact it was drawn up for the whole people. party’s candidate they would be able to draw the line so broad and distinct on the money question that the free-silver wing would have to surrender or go over to the Populist party. It needs no very careful analysis of the present condition of the Democratic party to see that it is a house divided against itself in deadly strife for supremacy, nor is it hard to see how it is that Cleveland is the logical and, in fact, the only available candidate for the gold-money wing of the party. A party shows an immense amount of degeneracy when it is divided with one wing being marshaled by a Dick Bland and the other by a Grover Cleveland, but the Democratic party is in just such a plight. ‘Wall street is, of course, pushing Cleve- land forward as the true and tried friend of the single gold standard monetary sys- tem. That side always has ready cash to invest in such ventures, and ready cash being the most influential factor in Demo- cratic practical politics, the Bland side will be at a great disadvantage. In view of the burning anxiety of money- lenders, bond syndicates and banking in- stitutions to continue Mr. Cleveland’s financial policy for four more years, it can very readily be understood why Secretary Morton and other enemies of silver are going about the country preaching the new doctrine of two, three or any other number of continuous terms in the White House for the same individual. 1t might be called an ante-convention educational campaign to teach the people that Grover Cleveland is absolutely necessary to the Nation; that he and he alone possesses all the requirements for President, ana that the anti-third-term talk is merely a scare- crow set up by little and designing men. But most people are of the opinion that the Democratic party should go into vol- untary bankruptey if Grover Cleveland is the only brain assets it bas left. TO INDUSTRIAL WAGE-EARNERS. The time has come when industrial wage-earners should actively devote them- selves to politics. We donot mean that those who are fortunate enough to have employment should give it up and engage exclusively in politics, but we do mean that whether at work or idle they should take a greater personal interest in the ap- proaching National campaign thar is their wont. Economic questions of vital im- portance to themselves will be the issue. It will, indeed, be a question of remuner- ative en.ployment, and certainly no class of our people are more interested in that issue than the wageman. Continuous employment at wages that justify one in hiring his skill and strength are the right of every American working- man, for in addition to his being the strong arm of the country in its effort to make the United States tbe leading in- dustrial, commercial and agricultural nation, he is the first to whom the Govern- ment appeals when davger threaiens the peace and safety of the National com- monwealth. It is of consequence, therefore, that the importance of the wage-earner to the social and politieal life of the peopie be considered in the light of his worth; not merely because he is a valuable factor, but because it is his right as & citizen and as a member of the Nation’s social establish- ment. In the coming National campaign the Republican party will stand, as it always has stood, for the rights and the best in- terests of wage-earners and of every other class of our people. It isthe business of the Republican party effectually to dis- courage, by vroper safeguards, encroach- ment upon the Nation’s brawn from Europe’s hordes of cheap and pauper wage- people. Itisa fundamental principle of Republicanism that our industrial enter- prises and their armies of wagemen shall not be overrun or driven out by foreign competition, and how well this has been donte may be ascertained by comparing the prosperity of ail lines of trade, commerce and labor when the Republican party di- rected the affarrs of the people with the uncertainty, hesitation and bankruptcy that came upon the country contempora- neously with the accession of the Demo- cratic party to authorlty in 1892, No figures, no statistics, no elaborate tables, no comparative exhibits are needed to tell the country that the Republican policy of government is not now opera- tive, for the distress of the people of all classes, and especially of the wage class, explains clearly enough that the Govern- ment is in the hands of a party that boasts of a policy which brings this country into disastrous competition with the half-fed, half-clothed, and in some in- stances, balf-civilizea employes of farm, factory, mill and mine in the old world. It behooves the American wage-earner, therefore, to take a lively, indeed an ag- gressive, interest in the coming campaign. He must, in fact, do all that lies in his power, to help rebuild the protection de- fenses which the Republican party erected between him and the conditions which prevail in Europe and Asia for their wage- men, and which has been razed to the ground by Grover Cleveland and his gola bug-freetrade allies and abettors. There isno middle ground for our wagemen. They must declare and work for protection against ruinous foreign competition, or accept Europe’s and Asia’s schedule of wages. A NEW PROPOSITION. Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota has introduced a joint resolution which seems to offer the simplest and most direct solu- tion of the railroad settlement that has yet been presented. Itembodies the policy upon which Tue CALL has insisted, as it requests the President to bring suit to foreclose the Goverament’s mortgage. Among the provisions is a request that the President sue the directors and stock- holders of the Union and Central Pacific for the value of stock taken by them and not paid for; another to recover from the officers, directors and stockholders the money uniawfully diverted and appro- prialed by them, the amounts recovered by these two sets of actions to go into the sinking funds of the roads, less 5 per cent to be paid to special attorneys whom the President is authorized to appoint as as- sistants to the Attorney-General; another to recover the amount of main-line earn- ings that have been invested in branch lines and to secure the Government's in- terest in the bonds and stocks of other companies held by the owners of the aided roads, and still another to recover the Government Jand held by the companies. An appropriation of $100,000 for carrying out the provisions of the resolution is pro- vided for. Mr. Pettigrew announced that he intended to address the Senate on the subject. The resolution covers every point in- volved in the case, including the pro- tection of the first-mortgage bondholders. Conspicuons among its merits is the fact that it takes the matter out of the bands of Congress and places it in those of the President, where it has belonged all along. There is not a single one of its provisions that adds to the power and authority already vested in the President by law. Itis well, however, that such a resolution should pass, as it would express the senti- ment of the country and have a moral effect on the President in holding him to the discharge of his duty. The measure completely destroys the bugaboo of the first-mortgage debt. A successful issue of the suits requested to be brought, added to the amount which would be secured st foreclosure sale, woyld produce a sum more than sufficient to extinguish both the first and second mortgage debts. The telegraphed con- densation of the resolution does not say whether it is proposed that the Union and Central roads should be offered for sale as oneline. Likely it does not make such a provision, but that point can be easily covered in the pleadings and decree. As to whether or not the resolution will pass, that is another matter. It may possibly get through the Senate. In any event Senator Pettigrew will make a speech con- cerning it, and that will be a very valu- able addition to the record. O0AST EXOHANGES, The remarkable success attending the de- velopment of the petroleum industry in the southern part of the State is leading to impor- tant discoveries and the extension of opera- tions. The S8an Bernardino Sun says: ©O. Roberts, aresident of the San Timoteo Can- yon, near El Casco, is the possessor of an il well without the trouble of boring for it For some years past he has noticed oil bubbling out of the ground along the banks of a small stream on his ranch. Hecent reports of oil and coal discoveries in this vicinity, but several miles west of where Mr. Roberts !l ves, turned his attention more fore ibly than before to the matter and he collected samples of the oll. He found that it will burn snd appears to be of the same character as the oil now produced in Los Angeles. Mr. Roberts will not sink a well at present, but will endeavor to Dpipe and collect the oll as it Issues from the natu- ral channel of exit already existing. This indicates that important discoveries await thorough prospecting throughout that region. In this connection it is pleasing to learn from the Redlsnd Facts that a company has been formed to develop the oil fields in the hills south of thatcity. They have invested $100 apiece with which to begin work, each to bear his proper share of expenses, and receive an equal share of earned profits. They have filed on 320 acres, twenty acres each—which isallowed by the Govern- ment as a mineral claim—in the hills south of Redlands, on the Moreno road, about four and a balf miles from Redlands. The necessary machinery has been sent for and a shaft will be sunk as soon as possible. Considerable prorpecting has been done for o1l in this viein. ity, indications of which and the veins of oil have been traced from Puente through Red- lands and the hills adjoining it, and it is be- lieved the oil found in Puente and Los Augeles is from the same veins which pass through here flowing toward the coast. In discussing the matter editorially, the San Bernardino Times-Index says: No more hopetal sign of the times has been ex- Dibited in th ganization of & company to prospect for coal, oil and gas in the bills along Reche Canyon. That it may be successfal Is profoundly to be hoped, but even that is & conslderation secondary to another fact, viz., that the people of this eity have,at iast recognized that there are other means of natural wealih, and other methods of extorting it from the earth than by the medium of frait trees. The latter is a great Industry, but nature did not limit the resources of this valley to that alone. The organization of this corporation signifies that 8 large number of the men of capital in this city and in Redlands are aroused 10 the truth that these cities may be enriched by other means than by money poured in their laps from the East. The money received from that source is poured out again for & thousand things which might be pro- duced here at home, and the first requisite for their manufactare is & supply of cheap fucl. The theory of home industry is, If possible, even bet- ter applied to our own oity and our own county than to the country at large. Like charity, it be- gins directly at home. Santa Barbara is & long distance from the principal gold mining centers in California and is in & section which has secured its grest- est fame irom its superb semi-tropical or- chard products. It {s therefore all the more significant 1o see the News of that city, in com- mon with the papers published in the full glare of gold mining rejuvenescence, realize that California is on the eve of a great goid mining revival. Our contemporary has the wisdom to know that such a movement points to better times for every section and in- dustry in the State. With their large circu- lation and {nfluence in the Eastern States the pupers of Southern California can do useful work in ealling attention to the unequaled op- portunities existing in California for profitable inyestment in mining properties. The News BAyS: It will not be a apeculative boom, but & rash of bona-tide home-seekers, who will come to stay and east their fortunes with us, 1t will bes orase for development, a craze for bettering and beautify- ing the country that the hands of nature left as the most perfect In the world. It will be a rivalry In gardens, in nomes, in lovely roads, in comforting walks, in insticutions of learning, In pbysical training—in a word, this favored land Will be appreciated and {ts people more generous, more Intellectual and more perfect physically. In that coming day we will have new blood and better blood—a new people without the traditions #ud without the- indolence of the present (nhabi- tants. They will come from less gental climes, but they will bring thelr onergy, their entorprise, thelr taste and love for the besutifuk ‘While gold mining is receiving 50 much at- tention there is uncommon activity among the copper mines in the northern end of the State. The Yreka Journal has this to say: Several clalms of copper ledges have lately been located at the head of Indian Creek, above Happy Camp, I this county, slong the Coast Range di- Viding Siskiyou and Del Norte counties, and also on the head of the Tiiinois River, which rises at the Del Norte and Siskiyou boundary, running morthward into Josephine County, Or. Thé ledges also contain considerable gold and silver and it is probable that other rich discoveries of gold and cinnabar may be found on Siskiyou Mountain, near Preston’s Peak, at Copper iake Copper Lake evidently feeds the Iilinols River and Alt- house Creck, running down the north side of the Siskiyon Mountain into Oregon, and also Indian Creék and Thompson Creek, running southward 10to Klamath River, near Happy Camp. . This indicates a serious lack of thorough ex- ploration and prospecting to discover the min- eral wealth lying hidden in the northern mountains. The great copper mine at Waldo has turned the attention of the world to the rich possibllities of that section. The Crescent City Courder says; Mr. Elmer of the copper mines is to be back from Baltimore about May 1, when a bustle will' begin &t Waldo. The company has bought the Sirong farm, which lies across the mouth of the ravine upen which the mines are situated, and this will be used as a base of supplies. The company is & strong one and will probably expend some $200,- 000 In development work aud a first-class smelting plant within twelve months. There is no question #s t0 the extent of the copper deposits or the com- pany’s financial ability, The transformation of the Laundry Farm (Alameda County) steam railroad into an elec- tric road and its consolidation with the Ala- meda, Oskland and Piedmont electric system Will probably be celebrated sbout the 25th inst. by a grand excursion and pienicof school- children, as the Alameda Encinal announces that J. H. Young, representing the company, has made a proposition to that effect to the Alameda Board of Education. The San Jose Mercury calls attention to the serious injury which the customs authorities are working to the prume industry of Cali- fornia. They are admitting stuffed prunes as dried prunes, whereas in reslity they are a confection. and justead of exacting the duty of 1214 cents a pound imposed on confections they require only 134 cents a pound, which is the already too low rate on dried prunes. Our contemporary thus described the article: The stuffed prune 18 & prune within a prune. Both are bighly sugared, the pits are removed, and within a large prane is placed a small one, They bave not the slightest relation to the dried product. They are essentially a candy, and yet they are not required to pay & tariff higher than that which 1s imposed on dried prunes. In addition to the wrong done prune-growers is that which California manufacturers of glace fruits are made to suffer by this course. This is steadily becoming a great indnstry, for the glace fruits manufactured in this State are superior to those produced snywhere else in the world. More than that, they are the purest, daintiest and most wholesome con- fection in the market, and the development of the market for California products should give careful attention to this product. Prune- growers and glace-fruit manufacturers are equally interested in moving to stop this evil. The people at Hanford evidently appreciate the value of the Valley road, as is witnessed by the following paragraph from the Hanford Democrat: C. J. Hobler and B. A, Fassett, the latter repre- senting the W, W. Batemsn estate, have made a tender of sixteen lots to the Hanford Valley rall- road committee, In case the Valley road will pass through the eastern part of the eity. The lots are 10 be donated, without price, and deeds will be given when called for. The lots are on the line of survey made In the eastern part of the city. This is the proper spirit, and before many days there are others who are expected to beas liberal. A strong pall will be made to secure the building of the road on the east side of the city. A similar feeling is displayed throughout the Ban Joaquin Valley. The San Bernardino Sun says that the Colum- bia Colonization Company has filed deeds to seversl thousands of acres of land which it has bought in the Mojave Desert. This is the com- pany organized to impound the waters of the Mojave Biver at & point above their disappear- ance. Says our exchange: Near Victor the Mojave River pours its waters through a narrow gorge of solid rock, an ideal place for such & dam ss the one proposed, for the founda- tlon, when bedrock was reached, with the solid rock for thi es, would make a foundation for a dam that would be as solid as the rock itselt, to be constructed at a very low estimate of cost com- pared to the immense amount of water the resor- voir would contain. The proposed dam will hold 186,000,000,000 gal- lons of water, being_twenty-six times the capacity of the Bear Valley Reservolr, while there is plenty of the finest and richest of Southern California soll right at hand that could be made fertile with this water piaced upon it. The work of constructing the dam is to be begun at once. Southeastern Oregon is really moye a part of California than of Oregon, as the natural western outlet of the broad and wonderfully fertile basin of the Klamath lakes is the Sacra- mento Valley and the bay of San Franciseo. As yet this splendid empire is undeveloped, and now the Klamath Republican is urging the resldents to bestir themseives, and they could do no better than foliow its advice. It says: We would suggest to the people of Kiamath Falls and vicinity, and in this matter all creeds #nd parties can uuite, that it might be well to organize at an early date s board of trade, Alpine or Crater Lake club, or at least a society devoted to sdvertisiug the material interests of our country, whatever its designation might be. A eltizen of Kiamath County when abroad in centers of busi- ness beyond the mountains is constamtly sur- prised at the evident ignorance of even our lead. ing officlals and business men in regard to the native resources of Southeasiern Oregon. Thes even look incredulous i you happen to mention that 100,000 acres of alluvial lands in our basin only await the advent of eapital to maxe them, by comparatively Inexpensive frrigation, capable of producing fom five to eight tons of alfaita hay per acre annually ; that, barring t Bs mile of raging water at Klamaih Falls, our lakes would afford about sixty miles of steam navigation within the limita of our fertile basin; tuat $30,000,000 worth of lumber s represented by the pine trees which clothe the Cascados within easy access of a safe and reliable water-power, equal In volume to that afforaed by the falls of St. Anthony at Min; lis. Let us organize and act In conjuaction with the Mazamas and Crater Lake clubs in other local- ities in advertising our advantages and attractions. ‘That iron in great quantities exists in the mogntains separating the coast vaileys from the San Joaquin has been known & long time, but the following announcement by the Hol- lister Frec Lance indicates that the extent of this undeveloped wealth has never been fully appreciated : Mr. Al Leonard of San Benito was In town last Monday, and showed us a couple of samples of iron from his mine, some thirty-four miles south of San Beulio, above Hernandez, located partly in this county and Fresno County. Mr. Leonard feels wvery h a3 to the outlook of this mine, as he was in Ban Franclsco recently with samples of ore, and a number of capitallsts of that City be- came quite enthusiastic over the ore, contract with him immediately for 1000 tons, at an excelient price, deltvered Pinos. A party will be down aboat the this month to make & e examination of the mine, which consists of two taining an anlimited quantity of the ore. About one ton will be taken out immediately and shipped to Swanses, Wales, as a trial order, Should every- thivg go all right Mr. Leonard will contract to de- liver 150 tons dally at Tres Pinos, which will be the means of throwing o great deal of money into this county. An illustration of the fact that general dam- age from untoward weather f§ impossible in California is furnished by the following state- ment {n the Lompoe Record: It is & wondertully bad season when Lompoc does not recetve suffictent rain to insure fair crops. They were doubtful this spring as to the prospect, but the unlooked-for came at the very time when the most good could be accomplished and in time o give promise of & full summer crop. Three inches of rainfall at this time is of greater benefit than fifteen prior to March 15. A full mustard crop is assured. Beans and potatoes, and in fact all other late crops, will come up to any former yield If potin with proper care. The early sown barley will not be a full crop owing to the fact that 1t Is too far sdvanced, but all the late sown barley Wwill be the better for having been put in late. The Mirror is & bright new paper which is working ably to make known the resources of Morgan, Utah. Bourguignon & Bourns have started the Cali~ Jornia Garden at San Jose. It is exceedingly valuable, as it treats floriculture in California, which fs very different from the artas followed in the Eastern States. Mr. Bourguignon is one of the most expert growers in the State, having followed the business for many years. Klamath Falls, Klamath County, Or., has & handsome new paper called the Republican. The Coast Advocate, published at Halfmoon Bay, has entered its sixth volume with all the vigor which attended its starting. The newspaper fraternity of the State learns with sorrow of the death of Thad J. McFarland, the able editor of the Folsom Telegraph. The Gilroy Gazette is already fondly hoping thnat because it has begun only its sixteenth year it is, like wine, better for age. Del Norte is congratulating itsable Record for entering its eighteenti volume. William Ayers, the veteran editor of the Western Watchman, published at Eureka, has resigned the active management of the paper to hus son, William 8. Ayers, one of the bright- est and most promising native sons that the State has produced. The Calamity Howler is & sharp and bright little paper that the associatea newsboys of Portland, Or., have established. The Riverside Reflez has begun its minth volume with an acknowledgment of the gen- erous appreciation which its efforts in behalf of the county have received. The Santa Clara Journal, one of the ablest and most indefatigable promoters of prosperity in the BState, has begun its twenty-ninth year. That its intelligent efforts are appreciated is shown by its aspect of prosperity. The Sanger Herald has begun its eighth year of industry and success. The Kern County (Bakersfield) Echo has re- duced its subscription price to 25 cents a month and expecis an enlarged subscription list. H. A. McCraney, formerly editor of the Lake- vort Avalanche and latterly deputy clerk of the Supreme Court, has started the Sacramento County Ledger at East Park, a suburb of Sacra- m .. He is displaying the old vigor and abilily that gave him so much prominence in Luake County. The Southern Signal is a bright illustrated paper that has made its anpearance at Santa Monica. PERSONAL. Yates Sterling, U.S. N, is at the Occidental Hotel. Dr. L. W. Benebe of Sebastopol is on a vist to this City. C. P. Rindon and wife of Stockton are at the Cosmopolitan, Dr. William E. Goume of London, B. C., is at the Occidental. H. C. 8mith of the Fresno Flour Company is at the Occidental. F. A. Manricso and wife, of Los Angeles, Cal., are at the Cosmopolitan. J. K. O'Neill, s miuer from Jackson, Amador County, is a guest at the Grand. A. G. Rivers and wife and Tonito Orfila of Los Angeles are at the Cosmopolitan. Thomas B. Hall of Hall, Lewis & Co. of Sac- ramento, the “pig-men,” is at the Grand. Sol Benas and wife of Newman, Merced County, are registered at the Cosmopolitan. H. H. Walsh, a leading attorney of Fresno, and his wite are guesis of Major William Fahey of the Cosmopolitan Hotel. M. G. Tonini, the Ilalian agent of the Union Pacific Railroad, is at present in New York. He is en route to this City aftera three months’ tour through Europe. C. B. Wingate, manager of some of the big- gest minzs at Laporte, Plumas County, is stopping at the Occidental Hotel. Mr. Win- gate is interested with an English ayndieate and ison his return from a trip to London, Engiand, baving made his yearly report. -either side of the front, has the ususl back John McRobie, formerly manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company in this Cfty, has been appointed manager of the office of the compauny at the Union Stock Yards, Chi- cago. This s one of the most important offices of the Western Union in the West and Mr. Mc- Roble may well be congratulated on his good fortune. — THE GIRL OF TO-DAY. Dear, delightfal mald! del Bright-eyed, and red-lipped, o leux and fair, . ‘What's the mystic charm That most beguiles one When your are near? O fond glrl, with the New Woman's wiles galore, 11 to be with you Ts felicity 1s't propinquity— Of woman'’s beauty, Well groomed, Tolf 1n raiment dainty— Sheeny silks from looms S0 cunning, work of Orlental arc? ing one, Joyful gayety Of & happy heart? or, s it Siren’s sinful song, 823“""' cruel wrong, s i fts lbldl:—- Gitts He’s show'r'd upon Your sex diviner, The act supremest Of His creation? No! Perish the thought! "Tis none of these. It's—let me belleve— Subtie, sweot, lovelss In a wichery b 5 Bn:And AxXEs in Toronto Globe. CURRENT HUMOR. «Can I write my name under the received payment on this bill?” asked the collector, who likes to put things as delicately as pos- ible. ’ “No, thank you,” replied Mr. Brokely, “I'm no autograph fiend.”—Yonkers Home Journal. Her grandmother was so ill that the report got abont that she was dead. A sympathetic old gentleman met the child in the street. “And when is your grandmother to be buried, my dear?” he asked her. » “Not till she is dead, sir,”—Answers. “Who,” ssked the profeasoress, “was Me- dusa?” “Medusa,” said the young woman who was feeling about the under sideof the bench for ber gum, ‘‘Medusa was the Jady who gave every one who looked at her an attack of the marble heart."—Indianapolis Journal. Magistrate—Why didn’t you answer to your name? Vagrant—Beg pardon, Jedge, but I forgot wot name I gave las’ night. ln‘hmux—blfln’t 1n‘ ’('t‘vn your own name? Vagrant—No, Jedge, travelin’ {incog.— London Tit-Bita 3 AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Theodore W. Davies, ex-British Consul at Honolulu, and guardian of the Princess Kauilaniof the Hawaiian Islands, was smong the arrivals on the Monowai yesterday. Heis alace. “’ls:::;nllenm 1s on his way to London, but will spend about & month in different cities of this country and Canada. Talking about the Princess, whose cause he so long championed before and after the last revolution, when President Dole’s Government came into power, he said: «The young Princess is now at Mentone, in the south of France, in school. I was for long time her guardian, but she is of age now; in fact she is 20 instead of 18 years old. The Princess has been at Mentone for some time As did the Levites, the priests of :;:’:;l:r’; ‘-u'n dance before iton the most joyful occasfons of worship. 2 iser has con. t is announced that “the Kal m;ed!h‘u latest artistic efforts, *After Sedan® and ‘The Charge of the Guard at St. Poavit. 1o the well-known battle-painter, Herr Roech- 1ling, who will put & few finishing touches to the imperial masterpieces.” the death of Rev. Dr. Frederick Bugge, Bil:;op of Christianis, Norwsy, Scandinavia Joses one of its bestknown theologians, Bishop Bugge was formerly professor of th ology st the University of Christiania and wax the author of & number ol books. Spanish papers announce the marriage of the eldest dsughter of Genmeral Martines Theodore W. Davies, ex-British Consul at Homolulu, and Long the Guardian of the Beautiful Princess Kauilani. |Sketched from life by a “Cald" artist.] and will probably remain there for some time yet. “The Legislature of Hawaii, which recently convened, has voted her a pension of 320(_)0 e year. Itis the first money given her, for since the revolution she has not received a penny. “No, the Princess has not & large estate of her own. She has only & little private land. All the old estates of the royal family are now vested in Mr. Bishop, who is now there. His wife, who was of the royal family, gave away a good deal of property in different ways. “Do I think the present form of Government in Hawsaii is permanent? Weli, as I under- stand the Government it does not lay claims to permanency as it is. It issimply seeking an ailiance with the United States. Whatever may be the ultimate outcome of the matter it isnot cluimed for the Government that it is permanent, though it might become per- manent. “The first Legislature, now in session, is try- ing to arrange the financesin a better way. It has only got fairly started thus far. “Hawali gives evidence of becoming quite | prosperous. There will be a larger crop of sugar this year than usual. For two years we have had drouths. This vear has been par- ticularly favorable and the sugar erop is large and the prices good, “The crop of Cuba has fallen from an aver- age product of 1,000,000 tons in an ordinary year to but 150,000 tons this year. The reason is because of the war, which has almost totally ruined the sugar crop of Cuba. The Hawaiian people are feeling encouraged at the present prices for sugar, and you know there every- thing depends on sugar. *A great many people in Hawail have gone into coffee recently and the product of coffee down in those islands will be materially in- creased during the next few years.” A USEFUL HOUSE GOWN. A flannel of black and sage green stripes, with trimmings of black satin ribbon, forms this charming and comrortable house gown, which is fitted to the figure by one dart on forms, which form godet effects below the waist. The sleeve is of the leg-o’-mutton shape. A light blue crepon had the lace set on to outline a square yoke, and falling over the sleeves. An inch border of brown fur finished the edge of the ruffle. The front of the gown was hooked up invisibly, and & bow of white ribbon with long ends finished the front. The neck had & collar of white satin with tiny points of the blue edged with fur set on either gide of the front. A plain untrimmed wrapper of pink flannel is most serviceable, as it may easily be laund- ered. A collarette of white nainsook with a narrow Val. lace can be made detachable, with turn-up cuffs to mateh. Or a ponted lace coliar may be made into elaborate accessory by sewing a_ ruffle of bright striped ribbon around it, making it into a point at each point of the lace collar and tecking it there. A white lnnulr'n with white lace collar and blue and white striped ribbon was very dainty. Campos, the predecessor of General Weyler in Cuoa, and the Marquis of Cayodel Rey. Gen- eral Campos is now in Germany with his see- ond daughter, who is extremely ill. Miss Lizzie Bradley of Peoria, Iil., who has already given that city & hospital, a home for sged women, a church, and a park of 145 acres, has declared her intention of imme- aiately erecting a Polytechnic Institute, which, with its endowments and appurtenances, will represent s cost of $1,000,000. Mrs. Elizabeth Ludlow,the mother of the well-known New Yorker, Robert Center, who ‘was killed while riding a bicycle on the West- ern boulevard in New York some months ago, has given his entire estate, valued at $150,000, to endow in his memery s fund for instruction in mauste at Columbia College. The newly elected president of Kenyon Col- lege at Gambier, Ohio, W. F. Pierce, is but 28 years old. He has been professor of philosophy at Kenyon for the last three years, and was graduated in 1888 from Amberst, an institu- tion which has done its full share in giving professors and presidents to Western colleges. During some private theatricals at the Saxon court recently the Crown Princess Frederick took the part of & maid servant. The ex- tremely realistic way in which she portrayed & Vuigar young women moistening and polish- ing a leather shoe brought her a reproof from the King himself, who said: “We are among ourselves, it is true: but even then & royal princess ought not to play so exactly the man- ners of & maid.” — CALIFORNIA glace {ruits, 50¢ Ib. Townsend's> ——— BesT peanut taffy in the world. Townsend’s.* P i iy ot SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * —————— “Would you accept an apology " anything, if it onlylooks like s man.” —New York Evening World. e ——— Take the Northern Pacific to All Points East. It you are going East call st 638 Market street, San Francisco, and get our figures. Finest service in the Northwest. All trains vestibuled snd equipped with dining-cars. upholstered tourist cars and elegant Pullman sleepers. Through sleepers once a week. T. K. 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NEW TO-DAY, Imagine yourself sleeping in a metal bed ! Nothing easier: $7.50 buys one (picture above), and you can’t buy a good wooden bed This model is very useful for wrappers of wash fabrics, and is ‘at the same time appro- priate for making up handsome tea gowns of any fabric, the trimming changing the char- acter of the garment entirely. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Professor Roentgen has had the honorary eiti- zenship of his native town, Lennep, in Rhen- ish Prussia, conferred upon him in honor of his great discovery. The Sultan of Turkey hasa mania for colleet- ing earriages, He has nearly 500 of them, and often loses half an hour before deciding in which one will ride. Herbert H. Smith, the author of “Brazil, the Amazon aud the Coast,” has presented to Cor- nell University his eollection of books on South Americs, consisting of about 700 vol- umes and 800 pamphlets. Emperor Menelek speciaily honors Jews at bis court. 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