The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 22, 1896, Page 6

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JR—— PATRIOTIS 1, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDE WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Ohio ¥OR VICE-PRESIDENT— GARRETT A, HOBART, of New Jersey 3, 1896. TION NOVEMBER Whitney has evidently got his oil barrel on tap. This will be a workingman’s campaign, for it means wages. So long as the lamp holds out to burn ver bolters may return. Democracy can apologize for the deficit tariff, but it it cannot atone for it. Bill McKinley and McKinley bill is a good rule, for it works both wa There was once a man named McNab, been lost in the shuiffle. the news read THE CALL ir and get 1t all. has yet suggested Free Trade a Presidential possibility. popular greeting among intelligent is, “I am for McKinley and so are 1e has Vhen you wis w’ll get it Yyou. It will be so hot at the Chicago Conven- tion there will be no ice there for anybody to cut. n of McKinley nearly ness of feeling Since the nomina everybody has a co better. 1t will be a lively campaien for Repub- licans, but the otter side will find it deathly. The next time Senator Hiil *“Iama Democrat,” he will be called on to define himself. Those Democrats who tried to read Dag- gett out of the party evidently did not know how to read at all. Democracy would confer a favor by re- nominating Cleveland. The people would like anotber lick at him. The Republican party has ratified the work at St. Louis and the whole people will ratify it on election day. Fortunately we will have our Fourth of July celebration before the Chicago con- vention disgraces the country. Daggett has long been known as a boss in the Democratic camp, but since the Sac- ramento convention he is the boss. It will be a long time before the Demo- cratic party rids itself of the exhausting parasites graited on it by Cleveland. From the way the Democratic leaders begin to bob up and splutter in the soup it is evident the stuff has begun to boil. The thing which worries Buckley in his retirement is the consciousness of his folly in neglecting to cultivate the mint plant. Business men may take their recreation this summer with the assurance that Mc- Kinley wiil be elected and the country is safe. After four years of Democratic depres- sion a vote for prosperity will be the most natural thing in the world for everybody to give. It looks as if the number of Presidential tickets this year would be limited only by the power of the press to print the names of the electors. We shall know who Daggett’s most faith- ful henchmen are as soon as little Gould names the members of the Democratic State Commiittee. Russell of Massachusetts has begun to haul bis boom in out of the wet and New England will send delegates to Chicago to look on and kick. An appropriate present to Senator Tel- ler at this time would be a neatly bound volume containing an account of the clos- ing years of Horace Grezsley. “You may think I am the most can- tankerous ass in the world,” says the Democratic donkey, “but just look at these fellows who are trying to lead me.”” By nominating Teller the Democrats can rid themselves of the dead weight of Cleveiandism and free trade, and that will count for something when the tidal wave comes. The best policy for free silver men at this juncture is to unite with the protection- jsts in establishing prosperity and thus provide an open tield for the settlement of the money question in the Congressional elections of 1898. Bland, Boies, Matthews, Campbell, Whitney, Russell, Pattison, Blackburn, Tillman and Telier are all likeiy to be pre- sented at Chicago as Presidential candi- dates, and perhaps the convention will spht into factions enough to nominate them all, | TELLER AND THE POPULISTS. The address of Taubeneck and other Populist leaders advising the faithful to pin their faith to Senator Teiler com- plicates the political situation somewhat so far as a combine between the free-siiver wing of the Democratic party and the Populist varty is concerned. The leaders of the silver wing of the Democratic party have been counting upon the indorsement of their National ticket by the Populiist convention, and there is no doubt at all that such a combination has been favor- ably considered by such Populist leaders as United States Senator Alien, chairman of the National Committee; Taubeneck and General Weaver. It is pretty well understood, too, that Boies and Bland have been doing a good deal of still hunt- ing among Populists on their private ac- count, but the introduction of Senator Teller disturbs the cast of the whole play. All wings of the Democratic party are for the nearest possible approach to free trade. So are the Populisis who, how- ever, go further and advocate the appli- cation of the principles of paternalism in the management of the Government. They claim that it is the function of the Nation to own 2nd operate all railway and telegraph lines and issue all money. Moreover, they hold that it is the right of every citizen to korrow money from the Government at a mere nominal rate of in- terest. In short, the Omaha declaration of principles means that the relation be- tween the Government and its citizens should be substantially the same as that between a father and his minor children, only that the children must, as far as they can, earn their own living. Senator Teller abhors the paternal theory of Government, and he regards high pro- tection as absolutely essential to the pros- perity of the country. He expressly said and wanted to be understood as meaning in his speech before the St. Louis Conven- tion that he heartily indorsed every plank of the platform save the one denying silver to free and independent coinage at the ratio of 16to 1; therefore a combina- tion between Silver Democrats, Populists and Teller wonld pe as incongruous and inconsistent as could be imagined. Teller has no use for the principles of the Democ- racy, nor has he even respect for the doc- trine as a whole of the Populist party, but if those parties would hide away their long and variegated list of political ab- surdities and come together upon a p'at- form of justone plank, that of the free and unlimited coinage of silver, he could not even then afford to be their can- didate for President, for however the intensity of his affection for free silver may have blinded Lim, Mr. Teller has too much good sense left to suppose that the great mass of Americans will make free silver coinage instead of the tariff question | the paramount issue. No one questions Senator Teller’s hon- esty and sincerity in advocating the doc- trine of silver coinage. Only the honest man would withdraw from a party which he nelped to found, snd for whose success he has faithiully labored for forty years, ! and which held still further honors to be- stow upon him, because he believed it had | gone astray on just one issue. Such a man is too honest to accept the nomina- tion of any party or combination of par- ties whose platform did not harmonize with his own views on every economic and | monetary question. Under such circum- stances the Democratic party or the Popu- list party. separate or combined, would in- | su s man like Mr. Teller were they to | ask him to become their standard bearer until they had declared for every princi- ple of the St. Louis platform seve the single one of providing a monetary system for the country. This neither party would be willing to do, nor could either of them without becoming an annex to the Repub- lican party. The ambition of the Demo- cratic party reaches only to the loaves and fishes of office. The ambition of the Popu- list party is a paternal form of Govern- ment. Senator Teller hates such debased and un-American ambition. ENGLAND AND OUR PLATFORM. It is too bad that England does not like the tariff, the Monroe doctrine and the foreign policy planks of the 8t. Louis platiorm. But, then, England was not consulted. Great Britain’s approval was not deemed atall necessary. The platform in detail and as a whole is altogether a declaration of American principles for Americans. Naturally England would not like the tariff plank. The people of| America are obliged to have manufactured goods and wares of various kinds. Their consumption of such articles isenormously great. We used to manufacture them here at home, but with March, 1893, came a new corder of things. Our factories and mills were closed and our indus:rial op- eratives were sent into idleness, and the pleasure of supplying vur needs was com- mitted to England. That is one of the reasons why the so-called ‘“mother coun- try” is so very fond of Grover Cleveland. But the Republican party is of the opinion that, having all needed raw mate- rial at hand, we should give our skilled and unskilled workingmen a chance to live well and lay up something for a rainy day by starting up our own manufactur- ing establishments so that our people may supply their wants with homespun fabrics and other necessary industrial products. As we Gonot need two setsof mills and factories to satisfy the requirements of our peovle, the idea of the tariff plank of the St. Louis platform is to give our own establishments the preference. That is why England does not like that particular plank. But there isanother reason why England is not pleased with that plank. Under Cleveland's alleged tariff act the country is obliged to sell the best and safest Gov- ernment bonds in the world from time to time, and British investors do not like to have the flow of them stopped. Roths- child 1s particularly desirous that the regu- larity of their coming should not be inter- fered with, especially as the Treasury Department kindly lets him take them in at $104 when their market value is $119. The St. Louis tariff plank, when in opera- tion, will furnish revenue enough without selling bonds. Then there are those Monroe doctrine and foreign policy planks. They will throw so much dirt in Great Britain’s eves that the old bully will not be able to see Venezuela at all, much less seeing un- justly marked territory boundary lines. So, altogether, England has no cause for rejoicing, especially as the St. Louis plat- form is sure to be the policy of the Gov- ernment after next March. A DEMOUBA}"II'EO PRONUNCIA- The attitude of thesingle standard Dem- ocrats of Jowa is significant—the more s0 because it was they, for the most part, who discovered Boies and secured 103 votes for him for President in the Demo- cratic National Convention in 1892. The pronunciamento of these Clevelandites, or sound-money men, recites that they have made a solemn pledge not to vote for “‘any candidate for President or member of Congress who is not known to be opposed to the free and unlimited coinage of sil- | this | granted belligerent rights to the Cuban | that “no party considerations whatever’ will induce them to depart irom the stand they have taken. To be sure, Iowa is a sure Republican State. Not once since the formation of the Kepublican party has the electoral vote of that State been cast for a Democrat, and only twice since 1858 have the Democrats elected their Gov- ernor. Where the action of the gold- standard Democrats wiil hurt most, how- ever, will be in the Congressional dis- tricts. The Democracy had made up its mind that two or three Congressman could be elected next fall, and they had some rea- son to think they could, owing to fac- tional fights among Republicans concern- ing local affairs; but it would take the entire strength of the Democracy and con- siderable outside help to do it. Butnow that the party is hopelessly split, the plan to “work a trick’” in the Congres- sional election will be abandoned. The head and front of the declaration of war against the silverites is John C. Kelly, who is not only Internal Revenue Col- lector of the northern half of Iowa, but he is editor and sole proprietor of the leading Democratic daily in Towa, the Sioux City Tribune. And when it is said that he car- ried the State convention a year ago for the gold standard and had Cleveland’s administration indorsed, it will be better understood what a declaration to refuse to support a silverite means. Kelly is anen- thusiastic and never-give-up advocate for the gold standard on principle. Thatwas his hobby before Cleveland was elected Mayor of Buffalo, and rather than advo- cate for silver he would resign his Gov- | ernment position and stop the publication of his paper. To Kelly more than to any Gther one man was Boies indebted for his election to the office of Governor. It is of no consequence now who got the gold men to assemble and persuaded them to pledge themselves to work against the election of any candidate for any office | from President down who advaocates silver coinage. The deed 1s done and good to the State of Towa will come because of it. But Kelly’'s paper has about as much in- fluence in Northern Nebraska and South Dakota as it has in Iowa, and the silver Democrats in these States may expect to be keel-hauled every day until November. DOWN IN OUBA. It appears that Consul-General Lee has | dispatched a very important communica- tion to tie State Department concerning affairs in Cuba, and that v the same mes- senger he sent a review of the situation to | the President for his own information. It | was not expected that General Lee would | be able to pive a very full report much before August,but he plunged into the work with so much vigor,in such a search- ing kind of way, that Weyler became un- bearably arrogant, which expedited rather than retarded the Consul-General’s inves- | tigations. 1t is said, and there is reason to believe it true, that Weyler undertook to repri- mand General Lee for making too pointed inquiries concerning the condition of cer- tain Americans confined in Cuban prisons and also for accepting invitations to dine with people who are known to have very | little respect for the Captain-General and less sympathy with the cause in which he | is engaged. Butcher Weyler made a great mistake right then and there. General Lee is not in Cuba merely to inspect bills of lading and talk for American merchan- dise, and such arrogance as Weyler's would be likely to make him more active in getting what he went after than he otherwise would be. 1n addition to being Consul-General, General Lee is a special commissioner of | the President, clothed with unusual | diplomatic authority. In fact he is there to gather such information and evidence as he may want to decide whether or not the Cubans are entitled to belligerent rights, and to have his decision backed up by the army and navy of the United States if need be. All this Weyler knew | long ago, and when he undertook to say | whom General Lee should and should not | dine with, and to what extent he would be | permitted to make inquiry concerning im- prisoned American citizens the Caprain- | General insulted the stars and stripes. It is surmised thai our relations with Spein have reached the point where the Madrid Government will have to accept | the friendly offices of tl:e United States in | the settlement of the Cuban troubles or | listen to the reading ot a proclamation of the President of the United States how | Government has done more than | insurgents, it has recogmized the Cuban | republic as a free and independent nation. 1If Spain does not like it she can press the | button and the United States will do the rest. LET US EE CONSISTENT. Christian Europe continues to play the “warning” joke on the Sublime Porte. The Armenian “warning” joke having be- come stale the “powers’” are now ‘‘warn- ing” the Turkish monarch that they do | not like the way his soldiers are butchering Cretans, but the Porte sees the point of the joke and keeps right on killing. Itis amazing how nations who call themselves high grade Christians could permit the Turkish Government to defy them from year to year and from generation to gen- eration. When pressed for an answer why Armenians are butchered by the thou- sands he says ‘“the Armenians are the cause of it all,”” ‘and Europe smiles and leaves him to continue his horrible work. He is now giving the same reasons for the slaughter of Cretans. It does seem that the world is civilized enough to put a stop to Turkey’s outrage- ous treatment of subjects who deny the Mohammedan faith. But, of course, to dismember the empire would mean a war among the nations of Europe for the pieces, and that is to be avoided as long as possible, even if tens of thonsands of Christians are murdered in cold blood meanwhile. However, perhaps we had better clear our own skirts of guilt before filing any charges against the Christian nations of Europe with sitting compla- cently while the Porte is wading in human blood. It is doubtful if the Porte ever committed more horribie atrocities than the Spanish Government is allowing to be committed 1 Cuba, and, although we are bouad by every principle of our Govern- ment to give the Cubans protection against Weyler's bloodthirsty method of subju- gating a people who are honestly striving to establish a republic fashioned like our own, we do not do it. Perhaps it would be more consistent in us to remove the mote from our own eyes before we make too much fuss over the Porte’s con- duct. 00AST EXCHANGES. The Arauto is the name of the new Portu- guese weekly newspaper published at Hay- wards by F. I Lemos and J.de Menezes. It has exght well-filled pages containing, besides the current local and State news, correspond- ence from Portugal, the Azores, Brazil, the Bermudas, the Sandwich Islands and the Por- tuguese colonies of different cities of the Utiited States. What will seem rather odd to the average American newspaper man isthe fact that in its initial number the Araulolays claim to being “the greatest circulating paper 1896. United States but also in Portugal, Azores, Brazil,” etc. Rena Shattuck’s creditable newspaper, the Prtalumian, is one year old and the announce- ment is made that the publication has ‘‘already become a fixture in over five hundred town and county homes.” If the paper cortinues to develop it1s intended to devote partof its columns weekly to fine halftones “‘that will illustrate the fertility, veried produets, indus- tries and scenery of this, one of the choicest sections of this favored State.” Petaluma and vicinity hold out many inducements to small farmers.who know how to handle a few acres successfully and who raise varied products and have something to send to market every day in the year. The Willows Revicw has entered upon its sev- enth year. The editor, John A. Apperson, bonsts that he has always furnished the very best paper possible with the means at his com- mand, and with reference to his stand in some of the factioh battles in Glenn County he says: “We have a kind of notfon that even those who have opposed us the strongest and. fought us the hardest know away down in their heart of hearts that we have been honest, if not wise from a moneyed standpoint.” The Amador Republican has been leased by Messrs. Buffington and Hartzell, who contem- piate the isSuance of a dafly in connection with the weekly. Richard Webb continues in editorial charge for the present. That newsy and wide-awake paper, the Galt Gazette, edited by J. J. Campbell, is now inits sixteenth year. “Fifteen years ago this month,” says the ezitor, “we published the first newspaper ever printed in Galt—the Ga- zette—and since that time we have remained constantly at the helm, never missing & single issue, and each week publishing ome of the newsiest country papers in the State.” He has aimed to keep step to the tune of progress and abreast of tie times, and is determmed to make the Gazette in future, 'as in the past, worthy the support and encouragement of an appreciative publie. John Fairweather and son have purchased the Reedley Ezponent from W. W. Holland. The Amador Dispatch has passed into the hands of E. C. Rust of the Winters Ezpress, and W. M. Peury retires from the editorial desk of the Dispaten to enjoy a period of rest after thirty years of continuous newspaper work. Sacramento has a new daily paper, the Fruit World, devoted to the production, transporta- tion and marketing of California farm pro- ducts. Theoil fields of Contra Costa County are about to be exploited, and the Martinez News informs us that “for some time past a syndicate headed by Charles Sonntag of Ban Francisco, ex-State Prison Director, has been prospecting in Happy Valley, on the Acalanes rancho, and have obtained leases on about 1000 acres of land in that section on which they believe oil of a first-class quality is to be obtainea. The necessary mechinery is now being built in San Francizco, and, it is said, actual operations will be commenced within thirty days. “The indications ot oil in great quantity in that district scem to be quite promising. An- other company has lately come into the field eud secured lands in the same district. “Should the first wells of the Sonntag com- pany show satisfactory resuits they will at once begin to develop the field on a large scale. Success, of course, means a good thing for the farmers owning the land, as the terms of the leases are that they sheil receive one-eighth of the product of the well: The Hanford Democrat thus tells the story of a bigstrike of oil ‘‘at Coaiinga, on section 20, township 15,” one week ago: *The land belongs to Ceptain Barrett of Selma, but the well was being bored by Los Angeies parties. The well was down about 800 feet when the flow began. It spouted up over fifteen feet above the pipe and ran at the rate of ten bar- rels an hour. There being no means of storing the fluid, the well was hastily plugged up and the parties in charge made jor Los Angeles with all speed. Secrecy was enjoined on all concerned, but such & strike us that will leak out. “This is the third well on the seption, but preparations have already been made to put down several more. Machinery and men are being sent up from Los Angeles, and there is every prospect of the Coalinga country becom- ing & big oil center.” Some time ago the San Bernardino Times- | Indez published an account of coal being found in paying quantities in Riche Canyon, about two miles south of Redlands. The same paper now has these fresh particulars: “At that time Sumner Wright of the Consolidated Abstract Company of this city started tosink ashaft on his place in the canyon. and at a depth of 100 fect found a very good quality of conl. Ha sent samples taken from the shait at this depth to Professor E. W. Hilgard, director of the Agricuitursl Department of the State University, and received the iollowing letter in reply: “‘So far as the coal substance goes it is of fair quality. Itlooks like the fag end of a coal bed, whieh is likely to improve in quality as you get in farther away from the beach line. What you say about the roof and foot walls agrees with the above forecast.” “The shait is now down 125 feet and the far- ther down they go the better the coal looks. In fact, samples now on display at the abstract office show the eoal to be of much finer qua than that mined at Elsinore. The stratum is about 20 inches in width and is supposed to cover about 12 square miles. “There is every indication that this will prove a profilabie field and that very soon coal will be added to the Iist ot important products of this, the imperial county of California.” Visalia rejoices over the certainty that a cannery will be erected there in time to handle the present sesson’s fruit cro According to the Visalia Delta, ‘‘this cannery will give em- ployment to a large number of hands, between 300 and 400 being the number. It will give employment to people in the summer, when | work is needed. “For several years the establishment of a cannery iins been the subject of almost con- stant agitation. All efforts to locate a cannery here have proved futile for several reasons. Some of the propositions to the fruit-growers were one-sided, and they did not take kindly to the plans proposed. “The offer of the Sacramento Packing and Drying Company is the best that has been pro- posed and mo trouble was experienced in securing the necessary guarantee of 1500 tons. In fact, & great deal more fruit than that will be delivered. Small fruit-growers who do not desire to handle their own crops will sell their product to the cannery. “The most important feature connected with the proposed cannery is the fact that the fruit in this district will be given a distinctive brand. The quality of our peaches has at. tained a National reputation, but there never hes been &n opportunity to present that fact directly to the consumers in the East by a dis- tinctive brand.” The establishment of & fish cannery in Mon- terey promvts the Salinas Owl to suggest that a fruit cannery would not be a bad investment in Salinas. “There is enough fruit going to waste in this neighborhood every year,” de- clares the Owl, “to supply a good-sized can- nery; fruit, too, that cannot be excelled any- where on the face of God’s earth. No section can beat us for berries of all kinds, apricots, peaches and prunes, while our apples and pears are world-beaters. Won't some one with a few thousand dollars to invest look into this subject?”” A co-operative apartment house is the latest innovation in prospect for Stockton, and the people interested are neither social anarchists nor dreamers, but are out foreconomical and pleasant living at reasonable rates. The Stocklon Indcpendent describes the plan as fol- lows: “It is not to be a bachelor or spinster ar- rangement, but for married couples and such single persons as the others are willing to ad- mit. The matter has gone past the stage of preliminary discussion, and W. D. Buckley has been commissionéd to find a suitable building for the purposes of the colony, and in case such a place cannot be found in the city to mnegotiate with some party willing to erect one. “The society will incorporate and elect a board of directors and be operated in every way like a corporation. Only stockholders will be permitted to become residents of the place. The building will be divided into liv- ing apartments to accommodate about twenty fnmilies in which all the members are adults, ver.,” And, asif to rab it in, they add | notonly among the 80,000 Portuguese in the | The dining-room 13 to be ong and run after the manner of & restaurant, The board of direc- tors will buy all of the provisions, select the cook and have full charge of the feeding of the combination family. Servantsfor the care of the apartments will also be employed, and in the end the lady members will find the ar- rangements to be one with all the conveniences of a hotel and without any househola duties devolving upon them. The projectors have been figuring and estimate that the institution will cost less than half ordinary living ex- penses. “The people interested in the scheme are going into it for comfort and economy and not in a desire to advance any idea af altrurianism or socialism. They say they are merely tired of boarding-house life and paying rents and maintaining households at an unnecessary ex- pense. If it proves a success it will not be the first instance, as a similar institution is in op- eration in San Dilego.” Progressive Santa Barbara will soon have an electric street railway. El Barbareno tells us that the wire for the line is already there; the rails will be on hand in a few days, and the en- gine and other machinery will arrive as soon as there is house room for it, “Itis the expecta- tion of the company that its cars will be run- ning by theé 1st of September; in fact, the contract for the cars calls for their delivery not later than that date.” Antloch is furnishing a good example of wealth-begetting enterprise for other towns of the State. From the Redlands Citrograph we learn than Antioch “has a goodly sized paper- mill, a big pottery and & distillery. The paper- mill uses up the straw of the county, the pot- tery digs its elay out of the county’s soil, and the distillery makes a market for the county’s grain. The raw materials are converted into usable articles before leaving the county.” The Summerland oil fielas are pushing ahead rapidly, and the Summerland Advance says that it now “locks as if the dreams of our most optimistic well-wishers were about to be real- ized. Mr. Knapp is making preparations to start up an extensive oil-producing planton the beach front at the point where expert opinion declares the largest oil deposit should bé, and nearly every oil firm in the field has added or is adding to its machinery. Many of our o1l men are casting their eyes seaward, and it will not be long now before the proces- sion of derricks will begin delving in the bot- tom of the channel 1n search of the precious fluid. The fact has long been known that the oil stratum runs under the channel, and oil may be seen rising to the top several miles off shore. Men of experience claim thatit would not only be feasible but that a well could be sunk off a platiorm of piling as cheap, if Dot cheaper, than on land.” A capitalist of St. Louis, Mo., is thinking of locating in Stockton and erecting there the largest cracker factory in California. He is represented by J. J. O’Farrell, the man who, in conjunction with Oullahan & Adams, has bonded the Weber property in Stockton. The information comes trom the Stockton Mail, which speaks thus: “The various cracker factories of this State constitute a strong com- bine, been able to fight down all obposition. St. Louis man, however, who is just = gaged in the cracker business there, until quite recently, is backed by a very large amount of capital, and it is said to be hisin- tention to start a factory on such a large scale that it will be independent of the trust. “Various circumstances combine todirect his attention to Stockton as a desirabie site for the proposed factory, chicf among them being the central location of the city as a distributing point, the presence of cheap fuel as soon as the coal road is completed, and the fact that Stock- ton is the greatest flour city in the State. and up to the present time they have The his mind.” PERSONAL. Guy W. Brown, U. 8. N, is aguest at the Beldwin. Ex-Judge S. M. Budk of Eureka h the Lick. Isaac Cosper and family from Amador are at the Ramona. Walter H. Maxwell of Liverpool, England, is a guest at the Palace. \ Dr.G. M. Johnson of San Antonio, Tex., is registered at the Palace. State Senator Frank McGowan is & guest at the Lick with Mrs, McGowan. Dr. Fred H. Chase, a deniist of Portland, Or., is a recent arrivel at the Lick. W. A. Chamberlain, a mining man from Eu- reka, is among the Russ arrivals, F. Volimer, & Capitalist of Denver, is regis- tered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. W. H. Anderson, an English traveler, is at the Occidental, registered from London. vr. E. G. Case, a physician of Ukiah, is among the recent arrivals at the Baldwin. L. Jones, a wealthy mining man of Eureka, Cal., is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. F. 8. Wensinger, the big dairyman of Free- stone, is registered at the Occidental With his wife. James W. Abbott of Calmalli, Mexico, has taken apartments at tbe California with his wife. J.E. Brewn, & prominent business man of Portland, Or., is & guest at the Cosmopolitan Hetel. g Among the latest arrivals at the Cosmopoli- tan Hotel are Dr. Rufus Willard and daughter of Seattle, Wash. 4 G. D. Fiske, the owner of extensive ranch property near Woodland, is at the Grand for a short visitin town. A. C. Barclay Roberts ana J. S. Lewis, two Philadelphians, arrived at the Palace last night from the East. William Wright, an electrical engineer and inventor from New York, i3 amonz those re- centiy srrived at the Grand. William McGowan and John Ketchum, lum- bermen from For: Brigg, are in town on busi- ness. They haveroowms at the Russ. J. Marion Brooks, the Los Angeles attorney and political enthusiast, has returned to the Grand after a few days in the country. W. B. Veir, a capitalist of Melbourne, was a passenger on the overland from the East last night. He has a room at the Occidental. Herbert Ayling and Frank E. Lamb, of the John Drew company, arrived with the party from New York yesterday. They are at the Occidental. F. V. Dewey, editor of the Hanford Journal, and M. R. Plaisted, proprietor of the Riverside Enterprise, are in the City and are guests at the Kamona. John Drew, the actor, will return to the Palace this morning from Burlingame, where he has been a guest since his arrival from New York on Saturday. Miss Ethel Barrymore, Miss Gladys Wallis and Miss Anmie Irish, actresses of the John Drew Company, arrived at the Palace last night from New York. Dr. C. W. Russell of Springfield, Ohio, ar- rived at the Palace yesteraay from Portland, Oz., where the Eclectics have been holding their twenty-sixth National anniversary con- vention, Dr. G. W. Johnson, an Eclectic from San An- tonio, Tex., arrived here yesterday from the Northwest in advance of his fellow physicians, who are to reach here in a body at 9 o’clock this morning. Captain W. H. Walker of the Pacific Mail steamship Belgic is at the Oceidental with his wife, registered from Oakland. He is going out on the Rio on the 27th to Yokahama to take charge of a supply agency there for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, W. T. Buissannie and Anthony Bell, two Londoners on a pleasure trip around the world, returned yesterday from Yosemite, which they reached on the stage that went into the valley behind the one that was held up several days ugo by road agents. The trav- elers will leave here to-morrow morning for London. Dr. E. B. Foote, an eclectic physiciar of New York, arrived at the Grend yesterday in ad- vance of the main party of eclectics. He left his New York practice in charge of his sonand is traveling with his secretary. She and Dr. Foote are at the Grand. Dr. Foote wes a boy- hood chum of George H. Fitch, the journalist of this city. a room at John A. Kasson, formerly of Iowa, but now a resident of Washington, is the only surviving member of the committee that drew up the platform upon which Lincoln ran for Presi- dent in 1860, “The St. Lounis man has not definitely de- | cided to build here, but he has about made up | AROUND THE CORRIZORS. Mrs. Waterman is a local lady artist whois carving out a new career for herself by immor- talizing leading members of the police forcein crayons and pastel. One reason for thid prefer- ence shown for members of the force may be found in the fect that she is the wife of a vet- eran and popular police officer, C. H. Water- man. Mrs. Waterman has a special faculty for trensferring any face that she may see to Mrs. Waterman. paper and eanvas, but her happiest efforts have always been reserved for members of her husband’s profession. In the new police sta- tion, on Washington street, near Polk, is the nucleus of & picture gallery which is the pride and joy of every officer belonging to it. There are only three portraits, but three por- traits well done are better than a thousand which are unrecognizable, and Mrs. Waterman has so transferred the lineaments of Chief Crowley, Captain Wittman and Sergeant Brown to canvas, that their most casual acquaint- ances know them at a glance. This lady is becoming so popular that she has patrons all over the country, and it isex- pected that before long her triends will per- suade her to open a portrait exhibition, which will consist largely of members of the police force. Captain of Detectives Lees spoiled a good newspaper story the other day., A lady re- porter on one of the dailies called upon the captain for the purpose of securing from him & thrilling story of adventure. She presented her card .to the captain, who was hurrying into his private office and said: “Captain Lees, I want you to tell me what was the most criti- cal moment in your life?” The captain stopped and scratched his white head for a minute, while the lady reporter got out her note-book and pencil preparatory to making notes of some harrowing tale. *“The most critical moment of my life,” said the captain, slowly, “was the moment I was born,” and he passed into his private office. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. The name of the heroine of William Black’s latest novel, “Brisels,” was chosen by the late Lord Leighton. Itissaid that the only European monarch who is not insured is the Czer. The companies wiil risk nothiug on him. Miss Bertha G. Lamme of the Westinghouse works in Pittsburg is the only woman elec- trical engineer in the country. Miss Helen Gould owns a rare palm which is valued at $25.000, and takes the palm for costiiness in the hortienltural world. In 21l probability Queen Victoria will never hold another drawing-room in person, the fatigue being too great for her at her advanced age. In Boston resides Miss Elizabeth C. Adams grand-daughter of the first President Adams, She lived in the White House during the term of her uncle, John Quincy Adams. She and her brother, I. Hull Adams, are the only sur- viving grandchildren of the second President. Dr. Kate G. Horner of Pender, Nebr., was re- cently elected Coroner of the town. The cow- boys call her an angel because of her self- sacrificing life. Whenever she goes on & trip over the prairies to visit & sick person some gallant but bashful cowboy follows ata dis- tance tosce that no harm befalls the pretty young doctor. Mrs. Virginia Fraser Boyle of Memphis wa awarded the prize of $100 for the best poem, read at the opening of Tennessee’s centennial. There were 142 poems in compe- titlon and the award, which was unanimous, was made by a committee of three literary gentlemen, who were ignorant of the identity of the artist. Johu Hickey, a Balaklava hero, has just died in St. Pancras Workhouse, London. He fought in the Crimean Wer, at the Alms, Inkerman, Baluklava and the storming of Sebastopol, for which he received medals and clasps. He was highly esteemed for his good conduct and Christian demeanor, and in consequence pro- motion was frequently offered him,but he preferred to serve the officers to whom he was servant and to whom he was much attached. LITTLE GIRL'S DRESS. A gimple little gown with a baby waist but- tored in the back is shown here. The sim- plicity of the design, in combination withaits picturesqueness, recommends it. The collar may be made detachable, which is a feature always appreciated, as two collars may be used, making variety, and, if one is washable, the usefulness of the gown is doubled. A brown and white wool dress had cne collar of brown satin, with a band of heavy creamy ace laid an inch from the edge. The other collar was of sheer white lawn, trimmed with velenciennes lage. A brown and light-blue mixture in wool had & collar of Fhln brown cloth trimmed with three rows of narrow gilt braid. A second col- lar was of blue China silk edged with a narrow knife-pleating of the same. A plain myrtie-green cashmere with one collar of plaid silk and another of white lawn i8s very effective. Wash dresses of gingham are shown with collars of the same, trimmed with embroidery. Blue cambric with collar of white piquet isa pretty combination, ana white piquet with collar of blue or pink cambric is alwaysdainty. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. The Baseball Pitcher.—The famous baseball piteher had walked the floor with the youngest, of his family for an hour or so. “Mar: . he said, “if the manager saw me now I bet I'dget soaked with a fine.” “Why?" asked his wife, sleepily. “I don’t seem to have any control of the bawl at all. Idon’t.’—Cincinnati Enquirer. Adam may have missed some of the luxuries of this life, but he didn’t have to teach his wife to ride & wheel.—New York Commercial Advertiser. «“Why didn’t you catch any fish, Harold? Wouldn't they bite?” “No. We lost our bait. The worm turned.” Detroit Free I'ress. Visitor—Johnny, do you ever get any good marks at school ? Johnny—Y-yes'm, but I can’t show ‘em.— Cinecinnati Enquirer. She—They say he married Miss Wrinkles for her money. Has she got much? He—She must have lots of it. seen her ?—Harlem Life. “I hear disparaging remarks about the poster girl, but for my pert I think her nice enough to eat.” Saying which the goat helped himself to a second plateful of magazine cover.—Detroit Tribune. Daughter—This plano is really my very own, isn’t it pa? Pa—Yes, my dear. “And when I marry I can take it with me, can 1?7 “Certainly, my child; but don’t tell any one—it might spoil your chances.”—London Tid-Bits. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Have you ever CoLumBus—J. H. K., City. None of the many accounts that have been published about the World’s Fair and the Columpus relics make any mention of the sending out of & United States vessel to meet the vessel bearing them. FroM LoN FELLOW—R. 8. 8., City. The follow- ing quc.tation is from “Maidenhood” by Long- fellow Standing with reluctant feet, ‘Where the brook and river meet Childhood and girlnood fleet. DuNHAM'S PARENTS—A correspondent writes to ask if the parents of Dunham, the murderer and fugitive from justice, ever lived in Sonoma County, and particularly if his father everlived in that county in 1852-53-54-55-56-57. Can any of the readers of this aepartment give the de- sired information? CENSUS—G. W. C., City. The canvassers for the directories in cities and for the school census confine their duties to the collection of certain data only, and the estimates of popula- tion that are based upon the returns ot such canvassers are simply guess work. There is no set rule for arriviug at such estimates, each in- dividual furnishing them, using & method of his own to reach & result. “ACKNOWLEDGE THE CorN"—E. G. 8., Liver- more, Cal. “To acknowledge the corn” is an Americanism,which means to admit being out- witted or an admission of failure. The origin Jof the expression is given in the following: In 1828 the Hon. Andrew Stewart was in Congress discussing the principles of protection, and sald in the course of his remarks that Ohio, In- diana and Kentucky sent their hay- stacks, cornfields and fodder to New York. Hon. C. A. Wycliffe, from Ken- tucky, jumped up _‘and said: “That is absurd. Mr. Speaker, I call the gentleman towrder. He is stating en absurdity. We never send haystacks or cornfields to New York or Philadelpnia.” “Well, what do you send?” asked the inter- rupted speaker. “Why, horses, mules, cattle and hogs,” re- plied the gentleman from Kentucky. *‘Well,” continued the honorable Mr. Stew- art, “what makes your horses, mules, cattle and hogs? You feed $100 worth of hay to a horse and by so doing you just animate your haystack and ride it to market. How is it with your cattle? You make one of them carry §50 worth of hay and grass to an Eastern mar ket, Mr. Wycliffe, you send a nog worth $10 to an Eastern market. How much does it take at 33 cents & bushel for corn to fatten that hog? Why, thirty bushels. Then you put that thirty bushels of corn into the shape of a hog, and make it walk to an Eastern market, and—" In- terrupting the speaker again Mr. Wyckliffe rose to his feet and exclaimed, “I acknowledge the corn.” The expression is now used in Eng- land in _the same sense as it is used in the Uniied Stat s. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ 1b. Townsend’s.® ——————— EPECTAL information daily to manufactursre. business houses and public men by the Prass Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * —— - THE best 25¢ boxes of paper and envelopes ever made are the Hurlburt's “Superfine,” “Venetian Bond,” “Devonshire,” “Iverness,’ “Royal Parchment” and ‘‘Real Irish Linen.” Boxes cf other papers are 10¢, 15¢ and 20¢ each. Visiting cards, weddinginvitationsand announcements a specialty. Stationery Dept., Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. . — . “But, waiter, if this is spring chicken, where is its wishbone?” ‘Waiter (equal to the occasion)—It was too young to wish, sir.—Detroit Free Press. 899 75 to Washington, D. C., and Re- turn. The official excursion to the fifteenth annusl convention of the Young People's Soclety Chris- tian Endeaverat Washington, D. C., July 7, will leave Los Angeles Monday, June 29, at 2 ».a. and San Franclsco Tuesday, June 30,8t 7 A.an The route will be via the Central Pacific, Unlon Pacific, Chicago and Northwestern, and Baltimore and Ohlo rallyays, and the excursion will be made under the personal supervision ot G. W. Campbell, president of tho Callfornla Christlan Endeavor Union, 18 North Second Street, San Jose, and William G. Alexander, ex-presidentof the Call fornia Christian Endeavor Union, 21 Nortn Fourth street, San Jose. For further information and reservation of berths apply to eitherof the gentle- men or to D. W. Hitchcock, 1 Montgomery street, San Francisco; C. E.Bray, 2 New Montgomery street, San Francisco; G. F. Herr, 28 South Spring street, Los Angeles, or to any ticket agent of the Southern Pacific Company. ——— . Official Route to Democratic National Convention, Chicago. ‘The Central Pacific, Union Pacific and Chicago and Northwestern line has been selected as the of- flclal route of for the California delegates to the Democratic National Convention at Chicago, open- ing July 7. Special rate for the round trip, only $72 50, Calltornia to Chicago and return. Tickets on sale June 30 and July 1. The only line running Pullman drawing-room sleepers and dining-cars San Francisco to Chicago daily without change, and free composite buffet smoking and library cars. Time to Chicago only 314 days. Ticket and sleeping-car reservations st general ticket office, No. 1 Montgomery street. D. W. Hitcheock, general agent, San Francisco. e Excursions to Grand Canyon of the Colorado. An excellent opportunity for seeing this wonder- ful scenery at a nominal expense s afforded through the excursions to leave San Fraucisco June 20 and July 1 over the Atlantic and Pacific Raliroad. Fare Includes stage trip from Flagstaff, meals en route and hotel expenses at Canyon, $75. For full particulars call on or address Thos. Cook & Son, excursion agents, 621 Market street, under Palace Hotel, or any agent Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. H. C. Bush, assistant general passenger agent, 81 Chronicle buliding, S. . ———————— Northern Pacific Railroad. Partles attending the Democratic National Con- vention at Chicago, the Christian Endeavorers at Washington and National Educa:ional Associa- tion at Buifalo shonld go or return via the North- ern Pacific Railroad. For particulars inquire of T. K. Stateler, Gen. Agt., 638 Market st., S. F, L e - “Mrs. Winslow’'s Soothing Syrup'” Has been used over 50 years by mililons of mothery for their children whiie Teething with perfect sao- cess. It soothes tie child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Collc, regulates the Bowels and I8 tho best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Draz- gists in every par: of the world. Be sura and asc for Mrs. Winslow’s Sooching Syrup. 25¢ & boitle. —————— CoroNADO.—Almosphiere i pertectly dry, sof and mild, being entirely fres from the mists com- mon furiher north. Round-irip tickets, by steam- ship, ncluding fifteen days' board a: the Hotel Jal Coronado, $60; longer stay $2 50 perday, APMY 4 New Moutgomery st., SanFranclsco. e WHEN jyou feel “as cross asa cat,” adose of Lyer's Pllis will make yon as good-natured as a kitten, Ity them for biliousness. ————— LOANS on watches, jewelry, silverware, at Uncle Herris', 16 Grant avenue. P ——————— LoANS on diamonds. Interest low. At Uncle Harris, 15 Grant avenue. ————— BORROW on sealskins, silks and jewels at Uncle Harrls', 15 Grant a venue,