The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 7, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1896. MONDAY. SEPTEMEER 7, 1896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Datly and Sunday CaLy, one week, by carrler. .§0.18 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 Dally and Sunday CALL, six months, by mafl.. 3.00 Dally and Sunday CALZ, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Sonday CaLz, one year, WEEXLY CALL, One ye THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you golng to the country on a vacation? It 48, 1t 18 0o trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will migs it. Orders given to the carrier or lefi at Business Office wlill recelve prompt aitention. NO EXTRA OHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, Ban Francisco, California. Telepbone... -..Main—-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. ‘Telephone.... BRANCH OFFICES: i 880 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay; open until :80 o'clock. 889 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Lerkin street; open until 8:30 o'clock. BW. corner Sixteenth aud Mission streets; open wntil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock 116 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE 3 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms $1 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York Clty. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. == TR { THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. PATRICTISM, PROTECTION i and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLRY, of Ohio FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A, HOBART, of Rew Jersey ELECTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. ——— One advantage of Democratic fusion to the Populistsis that it will cut their wisdom teeth for them. For Republicans of California the watch words of the next two months are **har- monize, organize and educate.” Democracy may gain something by fusion with Populists, but whatever the Democrats gain will be lost to the Popu- lists. Democrats may mock at the phrase | “honest money,” but the people will do | their mocking at the platform of dishonest money. | —_— To put money into circulation is the need of the time, and that can be done only by a protective tariff that will reyive industry. “Free silver comage without the con- sent of other nations” isa catching phrase, but it does not catch anybody who under- | stands business Bryan talks so much sentiment and so little business that even the leaders of his own party are beginning to believe he has no business to talk. If Bryan doesn’t look out he will make himself socommon in the campaign that he won’t be able to make a living as a lec- turer after it is over. In the days of protection and reciproc- ity there were good times in this country, and those times will come again when McKinley is elected. This may be called a campaign of educa- | tion, but it begins to look more like a gen- eral preparation for a grand Republican ratification meeting in November. “I’ll take the turkey and you may have the crow,’’ says the Democrat to the Popu- list, or ““you may have the crow and I'Il take the turkey, and now let us fuse.” Even as a speech-maker Bryan is not measuring up knee high to McKinley, as can be seen by reading the speeches the | two men have made since the campaign | opened. | It would be a matter of passing interest | to know what has become of that scheme to raise a Popocrat campaign fund by passing the hat around among the work- ingmen. The workers in the woolen mills of this | country received $86,000,000 in wages in | 1892 and only about $40,000,000 in 1895, and that is what the Gorman tariff did for that | industry. 1 Neither free silver nor any other cheap money device can bring prosperity to a Nation burdened with a tanff which operates adversely to the ‘interests of its own people. According to Sam Jones the attempt of the Democrats to run a campaign in com- bination with the Populists is like that of & man trying to climb a ladder with an armful of eels. Republican reciprocity treaties opened profitable markets for the products of American farms, but these treaties were abrogated by Democrats, who are now trying to catch votes by posing as the friends of the farmer. The trouble with the country is that we | import too much from abroad that ought to be made at home, and, while the manu- facturers of Europe receive our money, our own workingmen are without wages and our home markets without cus- tomers. Silver monometallism would cure none of the evils of the time, but protection, by reviving industry and patting money into circulation, would promote vrosperity and strengthen the Government in the effort to bring about the free coinage of silver by international agreement. By internationat agreement the Repub- lican party will provide for the free coin- age of silver under conditions that will make the silver dollar good all round the world, while the Democratic scheme wonld reduce the value of the dollar,would lower the purchasing power of wages and would hardly be of benefit even to the siver miners. According to Edward Atkinson, the | free-trade expert, the farmers who in 1892 received over $900,000,000 for their corn, wheat and oats got only a little over $531,000,000 for the same, crops in 1895. The lesson was coetly, and there ought to be no need fora repetition of it. To many a workingman this is not so much a par- | without a duty on sugar. | chasing power of his money. tisan campaign as a campaign for bread and butter, and on election day not a few Democrats will be found voting for Mc- Kinley and good wages, BRYAN IS A FREE-TRADER. Bryan Isa Free-Trader—When a member of Congress W. J. Bryan took advantage of every occasion te advo- cate free trade. In March, 1892, and in January, 1894, he was varticularly ve- hement in his denunciation of the policy of protection to American industries. Speaking of the principle of protection Mr. Bryan said: “Now, what is a pro- tective tariff and what does it mean? It isa simple device by which one man is authorized to collect money from his fellow-men. * % * We welcome to this country every industry that can stand upon its feet; but we do not wel- come the industries that come to ride upon our backs. * * * [ want to state, as emphatically as words can state, that I consider it as false in economy and vicious in policy to attempt to raise at a high price in tkis country that which we can purchase abroad ata Jow price in ex- change for the proaucts of our toil.” Bryan Is a Free-Trader—Con- ceraing protection to wool - growers and woolén factoriss Mr. Bryan said: “Speaking for myseif it is immaterial in my judgment whether the sheep-grower receives any benefit from the tariff or not. ‘Whether he does or does not, whether the wool manufacturer collects a compen- satory duty from the consumer of woolen goods and pays il over to the wool-grower, or collects it and keeps it himself, or doesn't collect it at all, and therefore does not need it, I am for free wool.” Bryanls a Free.Trader—When the question of giving proper encour- agement in the shape of a bounty to American growers of sugar-beets and sugar-cane was under discussion Mr. Bryan said: ‘“Some have advocated the immediate repeal of the bounty and the imposition of a tariff on sugar. Others have favored the repeal of the bounty The difference between a protective tariff and a bounty is simply a difference of form. In the one case it is open and visible, and in the other it is secret and hidden. There is a difference between a bounty and a pro- tective tariff that the Bible describes when it speaks of the ‘Destruction that wasteth at noonday, and the pestilence that walketh in darkness.’ It is the dif- ference between the man who meets you upon the highway, knocks you down and takes what you have, and the man who steals into your house in the night while you are asleep and robs you of your treas- ures; and if I had to make choice between the two I shouid consider the highway robber the more honorable, because he does what he does openly and before the world. It is as easy to justify a bounty as a protective tariff, and it is impossible to justify either.’”” Bryan is a free-trader. The free coinage of silver means the single standard of silver. It means a cheaper dol- lar with less purchasing power. It means a reduction in the wages of labor; not in the number of dollars, but in the quantity of bread, meat, clothes, comforts he can pur- chase with his daily wages. Itmeans a repu- diation of a portion of all debts, public and private. It means-a bounty to all the banks, savings institutions and trust companies that are in debt more than their credits. It means | @ rominal advance in prices of the produce of the farmer, but a decrease in the pur- Its chief attrac- tion is that it enables a debtor to pay his debts contracted upon the eristing standard with money of less value.—Senator Sherman. AT M:KINLEY'S HOME. Five thousand Pennsylvania voters paid their respects in person to Major MeKin- ley at his home last Saturday, and in the course of his speech to them he said: *It is this year, my countrymen, a great cause for which we contend, commanding the support of every patriot, for 1t represents the National honor and stands for Na- tional prosperity. It involves every cherished interest of the country and em- braces the welfare of every citizen of the Republic. It involves the labor and wages of the people and the earnings ac- cumulated and to be accumulated; the honor of the country, its rinancial integ- rity, its good name, all are at stake in this great contest; and every lover of country must be arousea to duty ahd quickened to responsibility in this crisis.” The cause for which the patriotism of the country is contending this year is, as Major McKinley says, for the Nation’s honor and National prosperity. There is no doubt about the gravity ot the situa- tion. The -classes that are following Bryan are stimulated by hope of the spoils of office, which he has promised as the price of their labor for him. Others are espousing his cause because they hate law and order, and Bryan’s attack upon the Federal judiciary gives them assur- {ance that he will make thines very easy for them ii he is elected, and still others are following him because they look for- ward to a general unsettling of trade, com- merce and finance if be shall be elected, because they hope to profit by the mis- fortunes a Bryan victory would send” over the country like a destroying whirlwind. The cause which Major McKinley stands for certainly does mean the preservation of the integrity of the Nation and the re- opening of the highways of industry and prosperity, and it is comforting to see men travel by the thousands to another State to assure the standard-bearer of right, of law, of order and of prosperity that they are ready for the fray; and it is still more comiortinr to see men who have hitherio opposed the Republican party putting aside all party ties and personal preference and rallying to the defense of the princinles of our Government. But there is reason why they should. Brvan’s mapagers, with Bryan’s hearty approval, are conducting a campaign which is in- tended, to stir up class hatred and sectional animosity. S8uch things ought not to be in this country, and it behooves every patriot to resolve that such principles as Bryan proclaimsshallniot prevail. The ties which bind in one common brotherhood in liberty under law should be stronger { toan the ties of party in times like these. Bryan tells our industries and our workingmen that “It is a vicious policy to attempt to raise at high prices in this country that which we can purchase abroad at low prices.” If that is not enough to stimulate wage-earners to a hearty participation in the effort to pro- tect themselves from the *low-price” labor of other countries they certainly care very hittle whether they have employ- ment or not, and the same is true of our industries, Major McKinley did not. ex- aggerate at all when he tola his Pennsyl- vania visitors that *‘In this year, my coun- trymen, it is a great cause for which we contend, commanding the support of every patriot, for itrepresents the National honor and stands for National prosper- ity.” Nordid he more than voice a great truth when he said: “Qur glorious coun try bas'suffered no dishonor in the past; it must suffer no dishonor in the future. The past is secure and glorious. The pres- ent and future are our fields of duty and opportunity. Those who haye preceded us have done well their part. Shall we be less honest and patriotic and brave in the performance of our part? In America we spurn all class distinction. We are all equal citizens—equal in privilege and op- { portunity. In America, thank God, no man is born to power. It haslong been determined that the philosopuy of Jeffer- son is true, and that this, the land of the free and self-governed, is the strongest as well as the best Government in the world.” T believe gold, siiver and paper should cir- culale at par, that neither should be driven Jrom circulation. If Bryan is elected and a free-coinage law is passed it will, as I see it, drive gold from circulation, and we will be on a single silver basis. If McKnley is elected silver will be retained in its place as part of the money of the Nation, gold will not be driven out and all kinds of money will be of equal value and purchasing power in the hands of the American people. Any way, I am taking no chances, and will dote for Mc- Kinley.—Terence V. Powderly. THERE IS ROOM AT THE TOP. In his speech at the Auditorium Satur- day night General Barnes uttered a great truth when he said *‘there ought to be no classes in this Nation, because there is nothing in this country, either of wealth or position, of power or energy, that is not equally open to all.” He might have added that only the thoroughly dis- reputable demagogue ever charges that the people of this country are divided into classes and that the poor have no chance to rise above their environments. The Bryans are talking a good deal about the “common people’’ and the ‘“‘working class” 1o breed hatred among the people, but every one knows, or should know, that it is all for political capital. The truth of the matter is, those whom we call very rich were once very poor. There are a few families who are enjoying wealth that was accumnulated in genera- tions of the past, but for the most part the wealthy men of this country started with no capital except such as was deposited in their brain, brawn and energy. It is a mistake to suppose that opportunity to accumulate wealth or secure political preferment is a matter of favoritism, and those who preach any other doctrine are the enemy of those who are striving by honest effort to acquire a better footing in the world. The burden of the purpose of the Re- publican pariy has always been to strengthen and extend the opportunity of wage-earners to become proprietors them- selves, and how well it has succeeded is shown in the ownersbip of nearly all our great and small indusiries, Itis the fact that nearly all our mills and factories made small beginnings and that they were put in motion by wage-earners, who de- veloped them into great enterprises by energy, frugality and business sense. This is not a Nation of classes so far as oppor- tunity is comcerned. Some, yes, very many of the heads of the great business, banking and railway enterprises of this country, commenced as office boys. There always is room at the top in the United States. When Major McKinley was striving to up- hold an American policy which would place our agricultural and manufacturing inter- ests beyond the power of foreigners to injure, through competition, he did not ask the con- sent of any foreign country; he did not take counsel from them; he considered what would benefit the American wage-earner and his employer. 1If American manufacturers were benefited by the McKinley law, so were Amer- ican workmen, so were Awmerican business ‘men, and if the day comes when we, as Amer- icans, can go it alone on the money question, rest assured Mr. McKinley will be as ready and anxious to take that course as any other.— Terence V. Powderly. COAST EXCHANGES. E. H. Clark has purchased the entire plant of the Templeton Advance Publishing Com- pany, and he advises the Templetonians that where a man’s financial interests are, there is where his best efforts will be expended ina community’s behalf. He promises to give his town & spicy, newsy, local paper. The Middletown Independent bursts into poetry with this ““ode to the country editor”: The wind bioweth, The water floweth, The subscriber oweth, And the Lord knoweth ‘We are in need of dues; So come a-running, This thing of dunning Gives us the blues. Charles L. Denohue has leased the Santa Barbara Independent. In his salutatory the new proprietor says: “It is our ambition to give to the People of Santa Barbara and vicin- ity a bright, newsy paper that will be iree from any personal attacks whatever, beliey- ing our success will largely depend upon the quality and quantity of news published, and not in airing our own personal grievances.” The paper was formerly a supporter of the gold stapdard. Jt remains Democratic, with the difference thet it has flung aside its gold buckler and lance, and will henceforth do its fighting with a spear and shield of silver. On September 1 the Los Angeles Record cele- brated, in a large and creditable edition, its first anniversary as the pioneer penny paper of the Pacific Coast: “It was predictea,” says the Record, “that the penny proposition would not take in Los Angeles because of the slight circuldtion of pennies in this region, and be- cause of the alleged prejudice that prevails in this State against pennies. The publishers, bowever, realized that Los Angeles is essen- tially an Eastera city, as its population is in the main composed of those who have within six or seven years resided in the East, where the penuy has been a current coin for thirty years, and who therefore have no prejudice which old residents of California are sup- posed to have inherited from the mining days, when the two-bit and four-bit pieces were the smallest change. The publishers of the Record believed that for this reason the common cir- culation of the penny could be brought about more eesily than anywhere else in_California, and the results have demonsirated that they were correct.”” The Plumas National-Bulletin has opened Volume XXXI. It is an able, substantial newspaper, and & good authority on mining matters. The Santa Barbara News reports that there are seveniy-one oil wells ju operation in Sum- merland; thatsix new wells are being sunk, 2nd that the present daily production of oil is 850 barrels. The same publication says: “Within three months there will be & hundred wells in operation in Summerland, with a pro- duction or output of from 500 to 600 barrels per diem. This is a conservative estimate. We have not yet begun to appreciate what Sum- merland is or the part it will play in the future of this city snd county.” The Livermore Herald advises every foothill farmer in Alameda County to “go to prospect- ing”; to bore, drill and dig about their farms; to look for indications of cement, lime, pot- ter’s clay, salt, buiidiag stone, glassblower's sand, gas, oil, coal, manganese, cinnabar, gold and silver. The reasons for such suggestions are contained in an article of which the fol- lowing is a liberal extract: “On the southern slopes of the hills that skirt the northern boundary of this county, about five miles from Livermore, is the farm of C. G. Muneb. Upon this farm there is a 20- acre patch covered with springs, more or less mineral in their quality, and abundant in their flow. Most of them are mildiy flavored with sulphur and iron and one or two of them are quite briny. For years there has been running 1o waste from these springs immense quanti- ties of the finest natural gas, apd no one knew it. Mr. Munch could now illuminate his house and provide himself with all the fuel for heat. ing and cooking purposes by simply catching the natural discharge of gas from these springs. The people of this valley are in prac- tical and unmindful rance of what is un- der their feet. Mr. Munch has simply con. tented himsell to plod along in the good gid- | ¥a fashioned way, plowing and seeding and har- vesting. He never thought that his ranch could be good for anything else. But sur- rounded as his place is by surface indications of coal, ges and oil, Mr. Munch may cultivate the faith that there is untold wealth uzder his plantation, ‘Last week young Farmer Berry finished building a perpendicular addition to the bot- tom of his well. When his auger hit s tough formation about sixty feet down he stopped, and the water rose ten feet in his weil. The gasis now bubbling up in the water. The Berry well is about a mile from the Muneh farm and about half a mile from the historic well on the Thorne place, which in an early day took fire and so frightened the people that they gathered en masse and filled it up lest it burn the whole country up. In this neighbor- hood is & farm upon which the squirrels throw up from their burrows fine coul. Itisin this same neighborhood that gas and petroleum are running day and might irom wells and springs on the Brown farm. And yetnothing is being dome to prospect the country and de- velop its magnificent possibilities. This valley is full of mineral wonders, and the time is close at band when astonishing revelations will make lethargic capitalists disgusted with themselves because they did not take the trouble to investigate this country. ““Only a few weeks ago & poor farmer in So- noma County struck arich ledge of quicksilver Wwhile sinking a well near Ins house. Most of you farmers contess you have wora your lands out and that you can’t maxe ranching pay. Then why don’t you put forth a little exertion in underground exploration. Itisspeculating for big stakes at small risks.” The San Bernardino Free Press has been gre atly enlarged and improved. Gird & Goodwin haye commenced the publi- cation of the Silver Advccate at San Bernardino. 1ts gospel is: “The iree and unlimited coinage of silver by the United States, regardless of the action of European nations.”” E.P.and A.F.Clarke have purchased the interest of E. W. Holmes in the Riverside Daily Press, and have signalized their emtry into complete possession by enlarging and im- proving the paper. The Press ranks among the leading newspapers of the southern part of the State, and is dotng excellent work in this campaign for the party of protection and 100- cent dollars. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. The Himalaya, troopship in the British navy, has outlived her usefulness in sctive serviee, and is being converted into a coel hulk for Devonport. The Himalaya was bullt at Black- wall, and was launched on the Queen’s birth- day, May 24, 1851. She was shortly after 501d to the Government, and remained in act- ive service from February, 1854, up to within & year. The purchase price was $650,000, and Dearly £3,000,000 bas becn expended op her innew engines, boiters and repairs to Lull during the forty-one years service. Itis said that the iron hull is still in & splendid condi- tion, good for an indefinite number of years. The Terrible, British navy, of 14,200 tons and 25,000 horsepower, recently completed at the yard of J. and G. Thomson, on the Clyde, said to be a failure. Labouchere claims that all naval experts criticize the ship severely as being unwieldy, with an inadequate arma- ment, and presenting an extensive target for either shell or torpedo. She and her sister ship, the Powerful, are both copper-sheathed, intended to reach a speed of 22 knots, The contract price was $3,160,000 for the Terrible, and $3,185,000 fcr the Powerful. The Colum- bia and Minneapolis, in the United States navy, of 7350 tons anda trial speeds of 22.8 and 23.07 knots, cost $2,725,000 and $2,690,- 000 respectively. ‘There has been quite a number of *Ter- ribles” in the British navy, and also several privateers by that name. A notable and des- perate engagement took place December 23, 1757, between the English privateer Terrible and the French privateer Vengeance. The Britisher was captured after a stubborn fight, in which the captsin and half the crew were killea and the remainder wounded. It is re- called as a singular combination of dread ctr- cumstances that the Terrible had becn fitted out at Execution dock, was cummanded by Captain Death, the first licutenant was known as *Devil,” and the surgeon was called “Ghost.” Phenomenal speeds have been developed by recently built topedo-boats, notably in France and England. The British torpedo-boat de- stroyer Desperate made a mean speed of 31.035 knots, or 353 statute miles, on four runs over the measured mile course, and the Forban, the latest French boat, made 31 knots, As the Desperate has & length of 200 feet against the Forban’s 144.2 feet, the laiter is unquestion- ably much the faster boat. The Forban, how- ever, is of very little practical use, as her coal- bunker capacity is only 15 tons, aliowing only very short spurts of this exceptionally high speed. The Desperate and her class carries trom 60 to 70 tons of cosl. Diana of 5600 tons, copver-sheathed, built by the Fairfield Shipbuilding Company for the British navy, was launched in the short time of 235 working days. The Eclipse, sister ship to the Diane, built at the Portsmouth dock- yard, was lauuched exactly seven months after her first keel plate had been laid. The Entrecasteaux, French protected cruiser, was recently launched at La Seyne. She isof 8114 tons, and intended to develop a speed of 19 knots. She is nearly an exact .counterpart of the United States cruiser New York. The French Minister of Marine favors the triple.screw system so successfully spplied in the United States cruisers Columbia and Min- neapolis. He recommends the building of im- proved vessels of the Dupuy de Lome type, to be 8300 tons' displacement and to carry two nine-inch quick-firing guns. The latter in- crease in quick-firing caliber from 6 inches to 9 inches is probably an incorrect statement. Argentina and Brazil are active making ad- ditions to their navy. The former has pur- chased two fine cruisers from Italian builders of 6840 tons and 20 knots' speed. Brazil has ordered several small vessels from Germany, Engiand and France. The Coramurs, a tor- pedo gunboat of 1030 tens, recently launched at Kiel, is guaranteed to make a speed of 28 knots. LITTLE MR. BY-AND-BY. Little Mr. By-and-By, You wili mark bim by his cry, And the way he lolters when Called again and yet again— Glum if he must ieave hic play, Though all time be holiday. Littie Mr. By-and-By, Eyes cast down and mouth awry. In the mountans of the moon He is known as Freity Soon; And he's cousin to Dou t Care, As, 10 doub, you're well aware. and-By fretful “Why?" ‘When he's asked to come Or g0, Like his sister—Susan Slow. Hope we'll never—you nor I- Be like Mr. By-and-By. CLINTON SCOLLARD in the Watchman. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. Always has THE PER CAPITA CIRCULATION. CORRECTION OF AN ERROR IN DISPATCHES WHICH 18 MISLEADING MANY PEOPLE. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: The per capita circulation of all kinds of money in the United States has been given 8t $22 55 by nearlyail the papers during the campaign, and in the silver edition of the Ex- aminer last Sunday the statement was re- peated, so we must consider the statementa 1nct, or nearly correct at least. InTHE CALL yesterday was a telegram from Washington in which it was stated that a Treasury statement shows that ail kinds of money in the United States, outside of what is beld in the treasury, ated $1,539,- 169,634, or &2 45 per Capita on an estimatcd supulndnn of 71,649,000. This s on the first ay of September, and & compared with last ear there had been a withdrawal of $64,418,- 594, or nearly $1 per capita. Some Popocratic friends of mine saw the statement and cut it out of the paper 1o show around town as proof of th tementsof their Jeaders that the country was suffering irom a lack of money. I was impelled by curiosity to Perform the ‘division and find that in some Way or other a mistake was made in transmit- tllll’! the message and that the amount E:r capita now in circulstion is not $3 48, but $2148. This is more like the figures we have been accustomed 1o I .mf thy 8k should be corrected. It marvelous how m‘“{ people have cut out that little state- ment and are min{ it to convince others to think as they do. I have come across many. ERNEST MCC UGH. b, 1896, urs respectfully, 881 Francisco, Se) AROUND ' THE CORRIDCRS. C. Steenbergh, who about five yearsago be- gan cultivating the canaigre on a large ranch near Brentwood, in Contra Costa County, ie at the Lick. Mr, Steenbergh says he now has about 200 acres which are devoted to canaigre, and he hopes in time to make considerable money out of the business. But hesays that growing the plant and getting ready to realize dividends is slow work. There is o much about the plant to learn. Then, too, just how to grow it in the most ex- peditious and economical way is a problem that with all its varied phases stays by the grower for a long time. Mr. Steenburgh will and E. D. Briggs, who buys ore and brings 1 to this City. A.B. Gl‘l’ifioook, lessee of the Sentinel Hotel in the Yosemite Valley, is registered at the Oceidental. W. H. Pearce and James Paull, interested in the quicksilver mines at New Almaden, are guests at the Russ. George W. Smith and George Bennett, each of whom has a store at Forks of Salmon and is interested in mines at that place, are staying at the Russ. E. 8. Babcock, the Coronado capitalist, who is half owner of the great Hotel del Coronado and president of four or five of San Diego’s largest corporations, arrived at the Palace yesterday with his wife. ylicarice e C. Steenbergh, Manager of the Big Canaigre Rancho, Near Brentwood. |Sketohed from life by a “‘Call” artist.] not begin to harvest the first erop till next leep now,’”’ he said, in his impressive way. “Itsleeps in the summer and grows in winter. It will be about December 1 before it will start in growing again. ‘‘An average crop is from ten to twelve tons an acre. About the tannery that has been talked of from time to time, I hope to have one built by next year, when we harvest our first crop. “You see it takes lots of capital to get a caniagre enterprise like this started, and as capital has, with this ss with most enter- prises during the past few years, been slow, we had to do the best we could. I think we shall come out all right in the end, and that the canaigreindustry willeventually be a great one in California.” ‘The canaigre is to be used a ubstitute for tanbark, which has been growing compara- tively scarce in recent years. The canaigre is said to have proved a good substitute when it has been tried. Macgrane Coxe of New York City, the re- cently appointed Unitea States Minister to the republics of Guatemals and Honduras, is at the Palace Hotel awaiting the departure of the steamship Colon, which will sail to-morrow tor Central American ports. Mr. Coxe is a young man, a lawyer by profession, and a prominent figure in Gotham clubdom. He be- longs to the Century Club and the University Club, conceded to be the best clubs in New York, the Dramatic Club, the Tuxedo Ciub and to several other similar organizations peculiar to social and business distinction and good fel'owship. Graduating from Yale University in '79 Mr. Coxe entered the Columbia Law Schoo!, from which he was graduated in’81. Since that time he has been a practicing at- torney in the metropolis, making a specialty of corporation law. During President Cleve- land’s first administration he was appointed by him United States District Attorney of New York. His present appointment was also made by President Cleveland, and is what is known as 8 vacation appointment, made by the chief executive during the recess ot Congress to till an unexpected vacancy, for the former incum- bent, General P. M. B. Young of Georgia,died recentiy, shortly aiter his arrival in New York. The tenure of Mr. Coxe's office is there- fore conditional upon ¢he continuation of his appointment when Congress again convenes. But thexe is little probability that he will not be permitted tocontinue toenjoy his posi- tionin the city of Guatemals, which he will make his diplomatic residence. This 18 Mr. Coxe’s first visit to the West, although he has been in Mexico. He says that it is not neces- sary fors Minister to speak the language of the country to which he is sent, as all diplo- matic matters are written and spoken in the language of the Minister’s country. PERSONAL. W. H. Hatton, an attorney of Modesto, is at the Lick. - W. P. Thomas, & Ukiah lawyer, is visiting at the Grand. A. L, Hobbs, a lawyer of Fresno, is & late arrival at the Lick. Guy B. Barham, the Los Angeles Police Com- missioner, is & guest at the Baldwin. A. A, Taylor, editor of the Santa Cruz Surf, arrived at the California last night. J.D. Carr, the capitalist ana land-owner of Salinas, is staying at the Occidental, B, D, Fagan, a merchant of Whatcom, Wash., is among those registered at the Grand. D. A. Ostrom, who owns ranches near Yuba City, is among the guests at the Grand, J. L. Gill, a wholesale druggist of Omaha, is one of the latest arrivals at the Palace. J. Churchill, mining men and rancher of Yreka, is a recent arrival at the Grand.. Railroad Commissioner W. L. Clark of Stock- ton is making a short stay at the Baldwin. L. E. Justin, a racehorse man from Portland, Or., ismaking the Lick his temporary head- quarters. Captain J. J, 0'Connell, United States army, stationed at Angel Island, is & guest at the California. Ex-Superior Judge C. G. Watson of Ashland, Or., arrived at the Russ yesterday with his lellow-townsmen, R. P. Nell, & business man, A HOUSE GOWN OR WRAPPER. Loose, gracefully flowing gowns of lawn, dimity, gingham or any of the numerous washable fabrics are indispensable to the woman who desires comfortat home. The one shown here is made on exceedingly simple lines, having a bias back lseam to supply the necessary fullness in the skirt; neither shirrings nor pleatings are needed. It has no seams but shoulder and under-arm, besides the bias one in the back, so_it appesals to the woman who wishes to make it herself. The sleeves are of tihe popular and delightful bishop-shape, uclined. They are supplied with a draw-string at the wrist, which, being withe drawn, facilitates laundering. The large col- lar may be made separate, the neck being fin- ished with a band over which ribbon collars are worn. A pink and white striped lawn had the collar tound with piuk wumhla ribbon an inch wide. A collar of the same ribbon three inches wide finished the neck. Ruffles on the sleeves were also bound with ribbon, A white lawn wrapper with cherry-colored ribbons was 8 dainty-looking garment. The c«tullln nng sl v‘e; were ln‘:’nmed with ruffies of lawn edge th narrow Valencienues lace, 8 hulf-inch insertion fieinx letin half an lu“c‘h hzmb?m hc’l' hi! i lue and white gingham had a collar blue lawn edgel with Valenciennes lace. Tx?s' collar was sewn to the neck of the ‘Wrapper with no band or folded collar to add wermth. China or Japanese silks are delightiul for these gowns, for they launder beautifully, both white and colors. A frill ot white or creamy lace makes a charming decoration. e PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE, Winifred Dixon, & woman, pointed examiner in surger: Dublin. i d Herr Lotair von Faber of Nuremberg, who 1¢ecently died, leit $500,000 for the pu; beautifying the city. TER has been ap- the College of M. de Wyzews, a French aecadent critie, sa; that Stuart Merrill and !rlnsthel-Gr!fl‘l!;a nx the only poets that America now owns. nl‘::t Smyser ‘:f Summerville, y-seventh year, has put seven bullets into & two-inch builseye at a range of sixty feet. It is claimed that John Morley and Edmu; nd Burke resemble each other more closely than A:wo statesmen that Great Britain has pro- Georgia, in his Mrs. Stowe, says mfim Transcri used to stay ;t the house of that huht&.‘t;’::: of all Beechers, Hon. M. P. Kennard, who is the only one left, by the way, of that brilliant old Boston set which included James T. Field and Eawin P, Whipple. Prince Oscar Bernadotte, the second son of the present King ot Sweden and Norw ay, has a Sunday-school for the children of the higher classes. The Rev.J. B. Smita, pastor of the African Metnodist Episcopal Zion Church of Troy, who has just died, was prominent in the G. A. R, and the Republican party. Prince Auguste d’Arenberg, the new presi. dent of the Suez Canal Company, fs wei posted on European affairs and has more than once shown himself to be an opponent of England. Marvin Chapin, who founded the Massosoit House of Springficid, Massachusetts, celebrated his ninetieth birthday recently by giving g ra. ception at his home in Springfield. He fg 15 good health and attends personally to all his many business interests. —_— ANSWERS TO CORRE>PONDENTS, A LAND PATENT—W. H. 0., C An agricultural patent to lan the holder all the mi discovered upon it. opperopolis, Cal. d guarantees to neral land that may be TARIFF ON Wo0L—A. A, § County, Cal. In 1883 the tar ported into the United States . 510 2 cents per pound, in 1890 under the Mr?\'[;glé)% tariff it Was 11 and 12 cents per pound, ang xy,o.dny under the Gorman-Wilson tariff it is Tee. THE STANDARD—A. ., City. cently issued from the T of the United States says the money system of the United States 1s gold and silyer, but it is claimed that the couniry is monometallic, ber cause silver is coined only for the purposes of the Government, and that an individual pre- ;enunfi snvercb;x\n;m 8t the mints cannot ave the same coined into silyer dojlars cau gold coined inio coin e BIXTEEN TO ONE—S. The question, “What is meant by 16 to 17 has been an. swered several times. The demand for free coinage at the ratio of 16 10 1 is a demand that the Government shall coin all silver presented at the mints on such & besis thata silver dollar shall contain sixteen times as much :etal as there is contained of gold in a gola dollar; in other words, it is & demand that the Goyern. ment shali assume that silver isworth ona sixteenth as much as gold and the silyer presented on tnat basis. Annette, Kern 1ff on wool im- A circular re- reasury Department shall coin all Woorsaok — M. M., Porterville, Cal, The woolsack is the seat of the Lord Chancellor of England in the House of Lords, when acting as presiding officer of that body. Itisasquare beg of wool, without back or arms, coverea with red cloth and was originally intended to be emblematic of the factthat wool was the great staple production of England. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth an act of Parliament was passed to prevent the exportation of wool, and that that source of national wealth might be kept constantly in mind wool sacks were Mebsiy: Tt e Siake Of Pesrs Whoosm the udges sat. Hence the Lord Chancellor, who presides in the House of Lords, 1s sald to »sit on the woolsack,” or to be “appointed to the woolsack.” A collator of ancient English customs says that the gvoolsack first came into use during the relgn of Edward III, 1327-77. STANDARD DOLLARS.—J. H., Nordhoft, Ventura County, Cal. The statement that “the silyer dollar is not held up to the gold dollar by the legal tender laws and not by the redemption in gold, because the standard silver dollars are not now redeemable in gold, either in law or by administrative policy,” is correct. The regulations of the Treasury Department provide that “fractional ~ silver coins and coins of copper, bronze or copper-nickel may be presented in sums or multiples of $20, assorted in denominations in separate pack- ages, to the Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer for redemption or exchange into lawful money and standard dollars Jor exchange into silver cer- tificates only.”’ For a time the sub-treasury at San Francisco did, as a matier of accommoda- tion, exchange standard dollars for gold, but about the 1si of August there was received a notice that the rule above quoted must ba sirictly followed. TOWNSEND's California glace fruits, 50c Ib. in Japanese baskets. 627 Markat st.. Palace. * ———— e SrecraL information daily to manufacturars, business houses and public men by the Prasa Clipping bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * e First boy (to second boy, who has been fish. ing)—Catch anything? Second boy—I haven’t been home yeot.—Bale timore Life. Are You Gomg KEast? 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