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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1896. THE TAX LEVY WILL BE LOW. Indications That the Figures Will Be About $1 05. DEPARTMENTS REDUCED The Health Board Will Receive an Extra Seven Thousand taxes exceeding 1 cent, or that it will grant him the permission of operating that cable on Baker st. ARCHBISHOP REDWOOD. The Distinguished Marist Will Preach at the French Church on Bush Street To-Morrow. The Most Reverend Archbishop Red- wood of Wellington, New Zealand, who arrived here on the Monowai Thursday, will preach in English in the French Cath- olic Church—Notre Dame des Victoires— on Bush street, near Stockton, at the 11 A. M. mass to-mOrrow. His Grace is an eloquent speaker and impressive orator, as well as a man dis- tinguished for his scholarly attainments. On his last visit to San Francisco he de- livered a sermon at Notre Dame in the presence of a congregation that packed that fashionable place of worship. On this occasion there will be special music, and it is expected that a very large con- gregation will hear the eminent prelate. Archbishop Redwood 1+ a member of the Dollars. THAT SURPLUS IN EVIDENCE. Mission Hgh School Estimate Cut Out of the School Department Demand. Unless the Board of Supervisors choses to alter the report of the Finance Commit- tee relating to the appropriations for the municipal departments for the coming fis- cal year the tax levy which is abont to be fixed will not exceed $1 06 on the $100 and will probably be $1 05 or 50 cents less than last year. The Finance Committee has worked long and bard on the figures that it will pres: to the board, Colonel Taylor spending several nights over the books with tbe expert of the board. It was decided by the committee that the demands of most of the departments were excessive. Theamount derived from the large levy of last year had allowed severa! departments to do a lot of neces- sary building and repairing that will ob- viate the necessity of spending much money in those directions for some years to come. Added to this was the universal demand for a low levy, and it was con- ciuded to shave demands wherever pos- sible. It has been decided to cut the $300,000 allowed Golden Gate Park to $225,000 for the next year, and the Street Department will be compelled to get along with $475,~ 000, $75,000 less than last year and $1,000,- less than asked by Superintendent shworth, if the committee’s report be adopted. The committee feels that the $200,000 demandea by the School Department tor ve, and that department will to get along with $1,000,000, $250,000 less than was asked. e Department appropriation will ess than last year, about ¢ off the figures for hose s, while other departments of ice have been allowed more money. Health Department is the only one lowed a substantial increase over last ar. If the committee’s figures prevail it will receive $7000 more than in 1895-96, which will be sufficient to pay the salaries of a number of employes who have not viously been provided for. The hopes { the board of having a lot of fat patron- a-e to dispense, in the way of additional inspectors, were dashed, the committee refusing to provide for tueir salaries, In ad on to the decreased necessity funds, there is the surplus left over from last year to as: in holding down the rate. The Auditor finished his calcu- ns the amount feft over in the arious funds yesterday and transmitted it to the Finance Committee. It is as fol- lows: of lief and penst rment rund eet Department fund B O v -$244,653 59 There are claims outstanding against the Street Department and police pension funds that will reduce the surplus to about $200,000, but the residue will be sufficient to save the taxpayers about 6 s on the $100. e three members of the Finance Com- mittee are determined to hold the rate down, and will made a determined fight to keep their report intact. S NO WOKE. r. Salfield Wants Baker Street Im- proved or License to Operate a Team=-Alding Cable. A committee of Oak and Page streets and Ashbury Heights and Bunset Heights property-owners appeared before the Finance Committee of the Board of Super- visors yesterday afternoon to urge the pe- tition of the Association of Improvement Ciubs for the appropriation of $32,500 to the Street Department fund, for the special purpose of permanent street improve- ments on Oak street, between Baker and Stanyan streets, and on Stanyan street, between Haight and Fulton streets. The committee was headed by C. D. Salfigld, president of the Panhandle lmprovement Club, who acted as spokesman. The Finance Committee apparently did not favor an increase of the tax levy, although cognizant of the fact that the improve- ment of these streets bas become an abso- Iute necessity. : Oak street, which is the only thorough- fare which can bc used for heavy traffic on account of its easy grades, and which is the only outlet to Ashbury Heights, Sunset Heights and the large territory south of the park, has been for years in a most outrageous condition. In the winter season it is a river of mud and slush, and the water during a storm 1s deep enough between Cole and Baker streets to float an ordinary sized boat very comfortably, as bas been repeatedly illustrated by Dr. Balfield, who keeps a small navy for this purpose. The traffic on Oak street is very heayy in spite of its bad condition. The vehicles keep as much as possible to the car tracks, and generally don’t budge off them, no matter how loudly the gongs of the cars are being sounded; for once off the car tracks they are sure to sink into the street un to the hubs and break down if heavily loaded. As it appeared to the property-owners’ committee that $32,500, asked for by the Street Department and petitioned for by the Association of lmprovement Clubs, would not be appropriated this vear, and that consequently the street will have to remain for another vear in the same dis- graceful condition, Dr. Salfield hasappiied to the Board of Supervisors for permission to operate a cable on Bakerstreet, between Osk and Page, for the purposeof assisting heavily loaded teams up the gradeon to Page street, the charge not to exceed 25 cents per load, and 5 per cent of the gross receipts to be paid into the Street Depart- ment Fuud for the betterment of Oak and Stanyan streets. 5 In an interview had with the doctor he stated that he is aware that this petition may appear as a8 huge joke, but that it is not. H’: nks that such undlzll;nngel_nent will surely pay expenses, and thatit is an absolute iecpes’shy?"rnam 15 hardly a day that numerous breakdowns do not occur, and all teamsters acquainted with the con- dition of the strects, especially lumber- trucks, carry only hali-loads to the district ‘pouth of Oak and west of Baker street. ‘The doctor hopes that the Board of Super- visors will grant the $32,560 to the Street Department, which will net increase the Marist order, and consequen!ly is a guest of the Rev. Father Geates at Notre Dame. He is accompanied by Monsignor Broyer, Bishop-elect of Samoa, who has™ spent twenty-two years as & missionary priest among the South Sea islanders. Monsignor, also & Marist, will be consecrated Bishop in Rome, There are six Bishops, members of the Marist order, in the South Sea xslnqu, and he will be the seventh. After leaving here Archbishop Redwood and Bishop- elect Broyer will proceed to Salt Lake City and visit the Marist College there, thence to Milwaukee to meet Archbishop Ireland, who was a classmute of Archbishop Red- wood in France for years. They will visit the Marist College in Dundalk, Ireland, and then go to Rome via Paris and Lyons. — ST FOR FE SPEECH The Labor Council Severely Cen- sures the Police Author- ities. Talk of a Bakers' Strike or Boycott Over a Ncn-Union Shop. New Officers. The San Francisco Labor Council held & specially interesting meeting last night at Federation Hali, 1159 Mission street. The attendance was nearly double as large as usual, for the reason that a semi-annual election was held and several matters of importance to labor unions were on the list for discussion. Delegate T. F. Burns from the Cigar- makers’ Union moved that a letter be ad- dressed to all labor unious in San Fran- cisco through the daily press, inviting them to participate with the Labor Coun- cil in the celebration of Labor day. An | amendment to the effect that each union be invited by a letter from the secretary was made, but Delegate MacArthur sug- gested thatthe committee of arrangements was competent to attend to the Labor day matter. The council had decided the uestion, so hesaid, at a previous meeting. t was eventually decided to imstruct the committee to invite labor unions to par- ticipate. On motion of Delegate Burns the arrest of a socialist Sunday night for speaking legislative committee. Thisaction on the part of the poiice authorities was regarded as a suppression of free speech. The com- mittee withdrew, and soon after presented the following resolution: WHEREAS, Free speech is an inalienable right granted every American citizen in the un- trammeled exercise of which rests the safety of our institutions, particularly at periods such as the present, when the public mind is agi- tated by impending changes in the funda- mental law of the Nation; and whereas, the police of San Francisco have arrested a public speaker, Mark Leiter, in the streets of this City, without law and in violation of every principle of liberty and justice; and whereas, the said person has been tried and convictes on the frivolous pretext of “obstructing the street” and fined the sum of $5 by Judge Joachimsen, therefore we, the San Francisco Labor Council, in regular session assembled, denounce the action of the police and court as & gross arrogation of authority and a subver- sion of the exclusive right of the people to make law to the function of the executive and judicial officers; and be it further Resolved, That we call upon all citizens, without regard to creed, color or party, to re- sent these encroschments as & menace to liberty, and the first and most effective step toward depriviug the citizens of the dearly bought ang inestimable privilege of self.gov. ernment. Discussion of the proposed charter was postponed for one week. Communications were received from the Municipal Reform League and the Mer- chants’ Association offering assistance to the council in considering the charter. H. Blumer, D. & Poole, D. J. Darr .and E. G. L. Hoeber were seated in the coun- cil as delegates from Typographical Union No. 21 for the ensuing vear. The other delegates of this union are W. C. Acker- man, T. F. Foley, C. E. Hawkes and George L. Taylor. Tne following delegates were elected to serve for the next six months as officers of the council: President, T. F. Burns; vice-president, J. Hill; recording and corresponding_secretary, Ed Rosenberg; financial secretary, J. Walters; treasurer, W. C. Ackerman; sergeant-at-arms, Thomas Finnerty. Law and legislative committee—A. Furuseth, T. F. Burns, W. MacArthur, C. E. Hawkes, J. Hiil, Thomas Hurd. RTruslee!-W. MacArthur, P. Weston and D. ulffs. Executive committee—N. F. Burns, W. Mac- arthar, J. Hill, H. Stockton, J. Goodman, C. Batterman, George Swable, Organiziug committee—Charles Batterman, T. F. Burns, C. E. Hawkes, M. Wistos, A. Furu-~ seth, W. MacArthur, George Swable. A delegate from tne Bakers’ Union re- ported that Dailey & Davis, proprietors of the New England bakeries on Hayes, De- visadero and Sixth streets, were employ- ing non-union men exclusively. The Bakers’ Union had endeavored to induce Daily & Davis to employ union men or to unionize their bakeshops, but without success. The delegate asked that a com- mittee be appointed by the Labor Council to confer with Dailey & Pavis and_report the result of the meeting to the Bakers’ Union this evening. The council in- structed its executive committee to attend to the matter. e e —— Town Talk This Week Contains a carefully written resume of that engrossing question “Sixteen to One” and other editorial matter of National and local nterest. ‘“Political Chat” deals entertsin- ingly with the personalities of those who help 0 keep the machine of politics in operation and throws side lights on the doings of men who would wield influence in municipal gov- ernment. “‘General Biff”” bestows praise where praise is due and handles the undeserving without gloves. “The Social Whirl”’ contains & charming portrait and sketch of Miss Marie Robina Voorhies, as well rews of other society people prominent in the local world of iashion. Tom T. Lane’s portrait appears upon the front cover. Miscellany of a pleasing and diversified character enlivens the pages of this week's Town Talk, and the various depart- ments are edited with care, as ususl. The dramg, music und “Saunterer” columns con- tain brisk comments and lively criticisms, the latter, however, being tempered with justice, which should be the underlying principle of the spirit of criticism. Town gl.lk is & thoroughly up-to-da‘e journal ® A Notification. 8AN FRANCISCo, July 31, 1896. To the Editor of The Call—DEAR BIR: As a protection to my friends and the public will you oblige me by giving prominence to the fol- lowing warning: The undersigned, baving learned that certain parties have been solicit- ing funds to forward his candidacy as a mem- ber of the next Legisiature, hereby gives no- tice that such action is without his consent, expressed or implied. Further that he is nota candidate and edvises his friends, so solicited, to deny such requests. KEYES, on the street was referred to the law and | ENGLISH CAPITAL FOR RICH MINES Australia and New Zea- land Have Been Re- ported On. VISIT OF P. F. MARKS. Sent by London “Financial News” to Learn the True Prospects. WILL EXAMINE MINES HERE. Is Very Favorably Impressed With Districts in Ncw Zealand and West Australia. Percy F. Marks, special correspondent and one of the proprietors of the great Financial News of London, arrived here yesterday from Australia and New Zea- ©1 was never favorably impressed with the gold districts of West Australia, and with Hannan’s district in particular. It is about twenty-five miles from the Cool- gardie region and in the last year fur- nished three-fourths of the total gold out- put credited m the reports to Coolgardie. A great rivalry exists between the two districts, both of which now have railroad conneccion’ with Perth, a port forty-five miles distant. “The absence of water, the lack of fuel, the scarcity of labor, and.the increased cost of every necessity of life in the whole ‘West Australia/district make it expensive. They have to go down 600 feet before they strike a reef and it costs from £10to £14 a foot for sinking and timbering a shaft. Mining is very much cheaper in New Zealand, for there water is abunaant. “Between £20,000,000 and $25.000,000 has been invested in West Australia minss, but the investment will not be a poor one in the end. Traveling in West Australia is one of the worst experiences you can undergo. Comforts there sre none; necessities are very few, and prices are exorbitant. There 1s no animal life, but there are some fleas, bugs and other insects. Day by day the district is being opened up now, and soon the railroad is to be extended to the Men- zes district far to the northward from Coolgardie, in what is called the bush re- gion—an arid waste. “In New Zealand there are two great mining regions—the Auckland district of the northern island and the district of the southern island, known as the west coast. The principal one of the Auckland district is the Coromandel and Thames. About ten or fitteen years ago it was atits height. “Then it collapsed after the great alluvial devosits bad been cleared off | Percy F. Marks, Special Correspondent of the Londom Financial News, Who Is Furnishing Exact Information on Mining Districts and Indirectly Guiding the Investment of £200,000,000 of Idle British Capital. land, where he made a careful examina- tion of the several large mining regions and sent from time to time exact esti- mates of their prospects to his paper, both by cable and by mail. He has come to the United States for a similar purpose and will begin with the Cripple Creek district, in Colorado. The Financial News aeals solely with financial matters. Itis a daily paper as large as THE CaLL, and has an attested cir- calation of 200,000 copies a day. Its opinions in regard to business pros- pects are given grea' weight in financial circles. Asan example of this when Mr. ‘Woods sent word that a certain big district of 80,000 acres in Australia, then receiving a good deal of advertising as a mining dis- trict, was really only a good farming coun- try and nothing more, the sharesfell a quarter in value the day after the report was published. In another case a favorable report was followed by an immediate advance of 50 per cent in the price of certain shares. “There are £200,000,000 of British capital available to-day to be invested in stocks of some kind,’’ suid Mr. Marks yesterday. “There is more money floating around now in England to be in- vested than ever before. It is a condition due to improvement in trade and to the general wealth of England which is a much richer country than most persons have any idea of. “Our mining news is absolutely unique. No trouble or expense is spared in getting reliable information. You may judge of that from the extent of my present trip. I was traveling in Australia and New Zealand for eight months, reporting reg- ularly by cable and sending letters. “My impression is, after very careful in- vestigation as to the value of each mine and after very lengthy conversations with practical miners, some of whom have been in the districts almost from the beginning, that the real wealth of New Zealand gold- fields will be found on the deep levels. *There is one company in particular, the Thames-Bauraki Gold Fields, an Eaglish concern, with s very powerful board of directors and immense financial resources, which will bring back to the Thames dis- trict the most halcyon days. Before those mines were flooded over 4,000,000 pounds, not ounces, of gold were taken out of that district. “This company is spending £60,000 in sinking a shaft 2000 feet and*is putting 1n powerful pumping machinery. So bright are the prospects and so much im- portance is attached to the prospects of this particular mine, the ‘Queen of Beauty,’ and so important is the business likely to pe in the future welfare of the district, that the Government is contribut- ing half the cost of the work. The future of New Zealand as a gold producing coun- try is highly promising, and I am glad to say the mining industry there is being worked and controlled by men of high character and great experience. “Some of the most prominent English syndicates have gone in for this enterprise to a very large extent. Beiore I left Aus- tralia I mei representatives of big Berlin, Paris and New York concerns sent there to look for investments. I learned that all of them had sent home most favorabie reports. *‘The best days are to come for the mines of East Australia. When they got down to the reefs they bad neither the money nor the experience to work with, but now by the new pro- cesses they are able to get a larger per- centage of the product.” Harry H. Woods, editor-in-chief ot the Financial News, is an M. P. for St. George’s in the East, and was the first man in England to start a daily financial paper. He got his training on the New Orleans Picayune, and was night editor of a New York daily. He started the paper in 1881. - TO REDUCE FARES. Market-Street Railway Officers Will Be Subpenaed and Questioned if They Can Be Found. The subpenas commanding the officers of the Market-street Railway to appear be- fore the next meeting of the Railway Com- mission, on tue 7th inst., have been issued. Mr. Newman, secretary of the commis- sion, made an attempt to serve them upon C. F. Crocker and Joseph L. Willcutt, president and secretary, respectively, of the company, but both gentlemen were “‘out of the City,” and nobody seemed to know when they would return. The subpenas cite them to answer ques- tions as to the capital stock of the com- pany, the funded and floating debts, gross debt, construction account, equipment, all other assets, total property and assets, re- ceipts from transportation of passen- gers, receipts from all other sources, total receipts, operating expenses, interest paid within the year, taxes paid within the year, salaries ‘and wages, all other ex- penditures, total exvenditures, rate and amounts of dividends paid, surplus, ex- venditure for new rolling stock, expendi- tures for repairs rolling stock, total number of passengers carried during the year and miles of road operated. The legal penalties for non-compliance are indicated. The citations are based on the complaint of Andrew J. Clunie,who charges that the present nickel rates cxacted for passage are too high. ———————— BABCOCK'S REPORT. His Annual Batch of Statistics Sent to State Superintendent of Schools Black Yesterday. Superintendent of Schools Babcock sent his annual report to State Superintendent of Schools Black yesterday. The statistics given were nearly all published at the time the board was making its appeal to the Supervisors for an increased appro- priation, but the following new figures are of interest, Total number of pupils enrolled, 38,517; percentage of attendance, 94.6; teachers employed 927, of which 98 are maleand 839 female. Average salar: of substitutes and extra w.gfigr}f‘ifi'?fi Number of teachers who are zraduates of the Caiifornia State Normal School 61, number of teachers who hold life diplo- mas 427, number of teachers who bold State educational diplomas 157, number of teachers who are graduates of the nor- mal schools of other States 18, number of teachers wio hold high school certificates 75, number of teachers who hold county certificates of grammar grade 785, number of teachers who hold county certificates of primary Fndo 67, City and County assess- ment-roll of taxable property for 1895-6 $327,805,147, number of ?:.cier.- certifi- cates renewed 397, applications rejected 56, number of childven attending private schools in this County 9070, THE Star to-dsy roasts Dave N the mur- P e kb o o REPUBLICANS TALK OF THE FUTURE The Party Leaders of the State Meet in an Early Conference. MANY WERE ON HAND. Protection Is the Issue and the Platform Is the Party Gospel. CALIFORNIA IS FOR M'KINLEY. The Leading Republicans of the State Are on Hind to Tak: Part in Pending Counci.s. The Republican leaders of the State held an important conference at the Golden Gate Hall on Sutter street yester- day afternoon, and at that conference the prospects of the Repuolican party in Oali- fornia and the best policy to be pursued during the campaign were discussed at length. The general result of the conference was that during the coming campaign in Cali- fornia the issue of protection is to be pre- sented as the overshadowing issue which it is; that as regards the financial ques- tion it shall be treated strictly in ac- cordance with the Republican plat- form, which declares for the bi- metallic standard which is to be acquired at the earliest possible moment in accordance with an internse tional agreement of the nations, among which the United States is an integral part ofa great commercial whole, and that the political prospects of California poinied uneiringly to the success of the National Republican ticket. This important conference was attended by nearly all the members of the State executive committee. Chairman Frank McLaughlin presided and Secretary J. W. R. Higgins, Irving B. Dudley, Frank P. Flint, H. Z. Osborne, John D. Spreckels and most of the other members of the ex- ecutive committee were present. Among the other leading Regub]icans who attended by invitation were Congress- man Bowersand Congressman McLachlan, who have been renominated for Congress in the Seventh and Sixth districts respec- tively, and Congressmen Barbour, Jchn- son, A. G. Hilborn and Loud, who are sure of renomination in the First, Second, Third and Fiith districts. Among others who were present were: 8. M. Shortridee, Irving M. Scott, W. W. Montague, N. P. Chipman, Horace Davis, Percy T. Morgan, R. B. Carpenter, M. M. Estee, W. H. L. Barnes, Jacob H. Neff, ‘W. R. Davis, P. d. Lilienthal, Senator George C. Perkins, Senator 8. C. Smith of Kern County, Hervey Lindey and others. This conference ,of the leading Repub- licans of California in session with the State executive committee of the party adopted and promulgated no particular meastires and_took no definite action which was put in the form of a resolution or a motion. The political situation, the prospects of the campaign, the prover policy and the best campaign methods to be pursued by the party in this State, were discussed dar- ing the four hours’ afternoon session in short speeches delivered by everybody who has been mentioned as present. The result was simplzot_he general campaign idea expressed above and in this general plan of campaign everybody acquiesced. The detailsand method of the campaign was properly left to the State committee. This morning the Republican State Central Committee will meet in Golden Gate Hall and at this meeting some im- portant measures relating to the campaign msay be adopted, although the general di- rection of the campaign will be left in the hands of the executive committee. B R BLAINE REPUBLICAN CLUB. Large and Enthuslastic Meeting at Knights of Red Branch Hall The James G. Blaine Club met at the Knights of the Red Branch Hall last might. Notwithstanding that the club has been organized only two weeks, it has about 200 names on its rollbook, with a fair prospect of adding 800 more before the 1st of September. President Desmond is in receipt of two communications, one from the Richmond District an¢ one from the Potrero, invit- ing him to designate a night in the near tuture at which he will be present to as- sist in organizing new clubs in those localities. > The routine business other than the signing of the rol! by new members, was dispensed with in order that the members might be entertained with an address by Colonel Roberts on the question of the “Free and Unlimited Coinage of Siiver,” as proclaimed by the man from Nebraska. Colonel Roberts showed by facts and fifnres that the free and unlimited coinage of silver would be an injury to the labor- ing masses in this country. Edward Burrows, Frank Rice, G. W. Alexander and other speakers followed much upon the same topics. et S CONTINENTAL LEAGUE. A Rousing Meeting of the Republi- cans Held at Saratoga Hall. Saratoga Hall was comfortably filled last night by enthusiastic Republicans. President Frank North occupied the chair and Maurice L. Asher was at the desk. In order that the first grand hurrah mufing of the league shall be made effec- tive and imposing the executive commit- tee will co-operate with the entertainment committee in all arrangements. Captain J. T. Bachelder was elected to take charge of the drill corps and E. G. Eisen was ap- pointed first lieutenant, After the routine business had been dis- sed of short speeches were made by H. t‘?. Smith, Leon Jones, J.J. Gillioyle, James E. Field and Major C. W. Kyle, all of which were well received. i iiege S The Thirty-Third District. At a meeting held by the Republicans in the Thirty-third Assembly District last night the following officers were elected: President, David Ahnon; vice-president, ‘Henry Schulken; secretary, Charles Kap- lan; treasurer, Charles Lockrin; sergeant- at-arms, John McGuire. It was ordered that the club be known as the McKinley-Hobart Club of the Thirty-third Assembly District. The following candidates were indorsed by the club: Thomas F. Graham for Po- lice Judge and William Blattner for Sheriff. Mo Tt Twenty - Ninth Assembly District. The executive committee of the Twenty- ninth Assembly District McKinley Club, at a meeting held last :xht at733 Howard street, indorsed Ward for State Senator for the Seventeenth Senlmrilll District. Next Friday evening, August 7, a glrnnd mass-meeting by the club will be beld at Irish-American Hall. ELDER AND A TEACHER. The Expert Says He Saw the Lady Only Once or Twice in His Life. George W. Elder, being spoken to in re- gard to the allegation that the Board of Education had appointed Miss Ada Mar- tin to the special charge of a class in the James Lick School, independent of the Su- perintendent at his (Elder’s) solicitation, said the story was rather too silly to talk about. e “Miss Ada Martin has been a teacher in the department for fifteen years,” he said. “She nzs charge of classrooms removed from the Lick School by several biocks. ‘When any of the pupils become unruly she has been compelled to send them to the Superintendent in_the distant build- ing. Superintendent Babcock introduced the resolution giving her jurisdiction in such cases. He urged it as for the Lest in- terests of the department, and it was passed. The resolution especially pro- vided that thereshould be no extra salary. That is all there is to it. Itistrue thatI asked a couple of the members to vote for it—some friends of the teacher who were friends of mine having asked me to do so. Ican see no harm in that. I neversaw the teacher more than once or twice in my life.” OFF TO SANTA CRUZ. Enjoyable Outing to Take Place Under the Personal Supervision of Colonel Menton. Chances for Sunday outings are plenti- ful, but Colonel W. H. Menton’s select family excursions have always been famous for excellent management and ratiopal enjoyment. To-morrow the colonel will accompany a party to Santa Cruz by the narrow-gauge route, - and many of the best people now in town in- tend to take advaniage of the chance to enjoy a pleasant, safe trip, free from all the drawbacks of the ordinary Sunday ex- cursion. The party will leave the foot of Market street at 7:45 o’clock in the morning, pro- ceeding to Santa Cruz direct, arriving there about 11 o’clock. Afier spending five hours by the shore the excursionists will start for home at 4 o’clock in the afternoon, arriviug in the City before 8. A feature not to be disregarded is the ex- ceedingiy low price of tickets, $2 being charged for the round trip. Tickets may be procured at_the ferry to-morrow morn- ing, or at the Southern Pacific Company’s offices under the Grand Hotel. The Bryan Club. The Bryan Democratic Club of the Twenty-eighth District held a large and enthusiastic meeting last night at Struck- man’s Hall, corner of Beale and Folsom sireets, A large number of new members signed the roll. Considerable enthusiasm was shown by the speakers of the club. Active steps were taken toward making an active campaign. NEW TO-DAY. ROASTS ROGUES! THESTAR READ EDITOR JAMES H. BARRY'S ARTICLES ON Murderer Dave Neagle. Brokers Lanigan and Dickinson. The Thieving Supervisors. Southern: Pacific Infamy. Baptist Preachers and Hudelson. Viee-Presidential Muddle. The Meaning of 16 to L Cyelers and Good Roads. FOR SALE BY ALL NEWSDEALERS. 3 CENTS COPY. SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 PER YEAR. Address L. W. 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