The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 5, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1896. —______—_-—————M MONDA CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Pestage Free: Daily and Sunday CAL1, one week, by carrier..§0.15 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Daily and Sundsy CALL, six months, bymail. 3.00 Daily and Sunday Cax1, three months by mail 1.50 { Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Sunday CALL, one year, by mail 7 WXEKLY CALL, one year, by m: THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going o the country on s vacation #@, 1t is no tronble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will recelve prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, C Telephone........ 1 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. ain-1874 Telephone BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open unti} 30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 8:30 o'clock. £W. corner Sixieenth and Mission streets; open until § o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open untll 9 o'clock. 116 Minth street; open nntil § o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICH : $08 Broadway. FASTERN OFFICE: Rooms S1 aud 3 < Ro THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Patriotism, Protection i and Prosperity. | IOR l'li‘l‘i.\'lnENTj__ | WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Ohio | 10OR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey Election November 3, 1896. Business sees MeKinley coming and gets ready to meet him. Four weeks more of campaignin n comes the victory and | Waat has Bryan promised to any man who doesn’t own a silver mine? If Mr. Phelan intends ever to repudiate the Rainey gang now is the time for him to do it From this time on every citizen should take part in the campaign and work for prosperity. Party contentions should be settled within the party. Let us have no appeal | to outsiders. . The first step in municipal improvement | will be taken when Charles L. Taylor is | elected Mayor. Al the industries of California need pro- tection, and all who care for the welfare of the State will vote to protect them. One of the reasons why Bryan talks so much is that he has todo something to keep people from listening to Watson. Would free silver stop the importation of foreign goods? American labor? After the campaign is over there will be 2 good deal of fun in watching the Demo- crats and Populists untangle themselves from one another. The American people delight in straight politics, and the tricks and trades of the fusionists will prove on election day to have been bad bargains for both sides. Ever since the Southern Pacific company threw the Eraminer a $30, boneand then withdrew it, the animal has been a madder and more dangerous canine than ever. In what way can the Republican party be benefited by a factional figat on Colonel Taylor? In what way would San Franeisco be benefited by defeating him? The Eraminer was never in favor of free silver as long as it was on the Southern Pacific payroll, and, perhaps the change of tone in politics may be due somewhat to the lack of change in the till. The price of wheat is rising, better times are coming for the farmers, and all we need now to make prosperity certain is to clect McKinley, restore the protective sys- tem and set the factories running. There are two notable features in this campaign: One is the small number of spell-binders taking part in it, and the other is the extraordinary activity in the canvass of professors and clergymen. According to the stenographers who travel with him Bryan speaks usually at the rate of 100 words a minute, but as he repeats himself all the time there is no danger of his exbausting the vocabulary. President Green of the Texas Midland Railroad says, ““We expect to carry Texas for McKinley, and I haven’t adoubt of it.” Is there any place at all bigger than a county where the Democrats have a sure thing this year? ‘When Coxey ran for Congress in Ohio he drew larger crowds than any man that ever ran in the district, but on election day he received less than 9000 votes out of a total of over 42,000. There is in that a lesson for the Bryan boomers. The New York Sun advises the Demo- crats of that State to give all their admira- tion to General Palmer and all their votes to McKinley, and while there is a sugges- tion of the straddle-bug in the proposition it will be noted that the vote is to be straight. The attempt of some Eastern papers to excite discord in the Democratic camp by circulating the story that Bryan voted for Weaver in 1892 will be fatile. The class of Democrats who are following Bryan would just as soon vote for Weaver them- selves as not. In the State of New York thereisnota single man ot National repute who is sup- porting the Bryan ticket, Democracy is confused everywhere in this campaign, but in the Empire State, the former stronghold of the party, it has virtually dissolved into empty air. Massachuseits has discovered that un- der her law it is no offense to deface bal- lots cast in a political caucus so as to make them invalid and thus bring about the nomination of a minority candidate. But who coutd have supposed that Massa- chusetts politicians would ever have thought of doing such a thln;_t .| taken for many years. Would it open an | American factory for thé employment of | * | Chicago platiorm and candidates have not THVE VALLEY ROAD. The entry into Fresno of the San Fran- cisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad marks another epoch in the history of one of the greatest and most beneficent enterprises which California has under- It is only a little over a year since the first contracts for the grading and material for the Valley roaa were let and the actual labor of con- struction begun. Since then the work has been steadily pushed forward in spite of such obstacles as hard times, obstruction- 1sts and an election campaign. The first ob- jective point was the largest city ot the Central San Joagunin Valley, and this has just been reached. The railway has thus its first terminal point, and even though it is but a temporary one it gives the road all of the incidents of & complete trans- portation line and euables it to compete with its rival between Stockton and Fresno on an equal footing. The credit of having kept this great railroad project moving during the past vear belongs to the sturdy and faithful few whose money was subscribed so lib- erally and expended so cheerfully for its construction, and whose business sense sees in it not only & fair investment for themselves, but a great boon for Califor- nis. The celebration which will occur to-day in Fresno will doubtless express the gen- eral public feeling of gratitude toward the promoters of the Valley road. It will be participatea in by the people from all parts of the great and fertile valley to whom it has already brought the needed blessing of competition in their railway service. It will also be a matter of interest and gratification to the people of the entire State,who regard the Valley road as an in- stitution calcnlated to beueiit every sec- tion and industry within its entire area. It is not more currency this country wants. It has an abundance. But it is confidence, | which is currency; confidence which starts the mills going, puts the furnaces in blast, opens the mines, creates a demand for coal and for coke and for iron ore, which burdens the rarhoays with the product of the field, the Jorest, the mountain and the factory.— Chauncey Depeuw. PARTY UNITY. The Republican party all over the conn- try is presenting a united front to those who have banished prosperity and who would keep it in exile by continuing in power and persisting in their erratic ideas of finance and free trade. The Re- publicans of California will surely see the wisdom of creating and preserving a like unity iz the local party. The efforts of the State Central Com- mittee to bring about party harmony, and its result, have been received with gen- eral satisfaction by the press and people of the State. The manly acquiescence of Mr. Sonntag and osher leading Republi- cans in the judgment of the committee has evoked praise from all who believe in party harmony as essential to victory. It is to be hoped that the present week will see the recemt breach entirely closed and all loyal Republicans in line and laboring together for the success of a single ticket. This is a consummation devoutly to be wished. It isthe duty of every Republican who submits his claims to the decision of the State Central Com- mittee to accept and abide by its decree and fall in line with the regnlar organiza- | tion in a united effort for the snccess of the party. An Englishman probadly would say that free trade is a principle, Jounded on the uni- versal brotherhood of humanity and individual rights. We must acknowledge the truth of this statement; but circumstances aller cases. | We have not, as yet, arrived at a full under- standwng of this universal brotherhood—this | great oneess of life. We must bow to the fiat of our great mother, Nature. We must pre- serve ourselves; we must protect our own interests.—Miss America Phillips of New York. GALIPdBNI_A_’S LABOR DAY To-day is Labor day in Californis, and, therefore, there will be a pretty general | suspension of industrial operations. More ana more labor is influencing and shaping legislation in its own interests, and among | the many advantages already secured are days set apart under law for the recreation | and reunion of working veople. In this, | as in every other public matter in which | labor combines to accomplish, it not only itself takes a step forward, but carries the social and business existence of the whole | country forward with it. | They have Labor days in Europe and all | branches of the wage class observe them, but not as they are observed by American | tabor. In this country such days are given up to merrymaking and other kinds of | healthgiving entertainment, and when the day is done the participants feel all the better for the outing, but the rule in Europe is to gather upon such occasions for the agitation of political gunestions, which leaves the participants in rather a worse mental condition. That, however, is attributable to the fact that the wage- man in Europe is & coz in a great industrial and political wheel, He gets such liberty and opportunity for per- sonal use as “‘divine right’’ deems best for him, while in this country the wage-man is himself a sovereign and has a voice in granting rights and privileges. There is no doubt that the American workingman is far better circumstanced than his fellows in eny other country, but it is because he participates intelligently and with a patriotic spirit in all the work leading up to the enactment and adminis- tration of the laws under which he lives. The American workingman ennobles labor because he is a freeman and because it is good and right to honestly earn that which he wants. There will not be too many days set apart for labor's use, for labor | itself cam be depended upon to regulate | that, nor will there be too few days in which labor may seek relief from the cares | of active employment, for labor would not permit it. The splendid manhood of American labor can always be depended upon to do what is best for America and American institutions. I believe in America for Américans—na- tive born and naturalized. I believe in the - American payroll, and 1 do not believe in diminishing that payroll by giving work to anybody else under another flag while we have got an idle man under our flag.—Mec- Kinley. BRYAN'S SUPPORTERS. 1f the newspapers of a party reflect the sentiments of the rankand file, Mr. Bryan will have to look elsewhere than to the Democratic party for votes. Over 200 of the leading Democratic newspapers which gave Cleveland hearty support are oppos- ing Bryan’s election, and of the great commercial centers only in San Francisco, New Orleans, St. Louis and Denver are to be found Democratic papers that advocate the election of the Chicago nominee. As far as can be ascertained those newspapers which have repudiated Bryanism have lost neither in advertising nor in sub- scribers, while those which swallowed the increased their subscription list nor added to their advertising patronage. ‘When a party newepaper takesa course that is not approved of by the rank and file it is immediately feltin the agency and subscription departments. If the hundreds of Democratic newspapers which supported Cleveland and which are mnow opposing Bryan were not in harmony with the sentiments of their patrons, as a business proposition they would at least be less vehement in their denunciation of Bryen and all tha he represents, but it appears that in repu- diating the Chicago convention’s work these bolting newspapers were moved to do so by the sentiment of the party, and that the rank and file and not the news- papers took the lead. 1f one cares to look over the field to see what newspaper support Bryan has he will find it confinea almost entirely to such papers as belong to the Populist family of publications, and that where ex- ceptions 1o that rule are found it will be discovered that the paper is owned or con- trolled by owners of silver mining prop- erty. Itisa conspicuous fact that not one journal, newspaper or other publication that is devoted to trade, traffic, commerece or finance 1s favoring Bryan’s election. Only here and there is found a successful business man, be he engaged in industry, agriculture, transportation or in the pro- motion of business enterprises, who is ad- vocating the election of the Chicago nom- inee. In the field of mechanical skill and labor the majority are found demanding that protection be not only made the para- mount issue in the campaign, but that it have precedence over all other legislation when Congress meets, Who, then, is sin- cerely supporting Bryan? Only those who are seeking political preferment, those who are interested in silver produc- tion and thouse who refuse to think for themselves. I affirm that whereas in ev:ry gold standard country for the last forty years the improve- ment of labor has been marked and the pur- chasing power of wages increased, in every country where silver is the standard the lot of the laboring man has not improved; that he works longer hours for less results; that the protection which free silver gives simply comes to him in a pitiable form of lower wages and less comfort.—Hon. E. W. Bar- rett. NOT MUCH OF AN ECONOMIST. Mr. A. C. Ellis of Salt Lake isin San Francisco trying to infuse a little life into the Bryan cause. Mr. Ellis is a good deal of an orator, but not much of a political economist. He addressed a silver meet- ing at Metropolitan Temple last Thursday night and labored very hard 1o prove that there could not be overproduction of com- modities. He said: ‘‘How can there be overproduction of cereals when there are thousands of our fellow-countrymen starving? How can there be overproduc- tion of fabrics when many people have not clothes to wear ?”’ It is the easiest thing in the world, Mr. Ellis, to have overproduction when thou- sands are suffering for things overpro- duced. In fact, overproduction comes from the inability of consumers to buy that which is produced for consumption. Producers do not produce just for the fun of producing. They produce because they hope to find buyers in the market for their products, and in ratio to the inability of buyers to buy are their products over- produced. If consumersnf provisions are starving, that shows they have no money to buy things to apvoease their hunger, and <0 any production at all would be overproduction. All of anything pro- duced that is in excess of the demand is overproduction. For three years now there has been overproduction of breadstuffs and provi- sions, and not a littie of it has gone to waste because there have been no buyers, and all this, too, in the face of the cruel fact that thousands of people were suffer- ing for something to eat. But why have the people lived under such conditions, Mr. Ellis? Why has there been so much hunger in the face of such quantities of breadstuffs and provisions? Have pro- ducers been unwilling to sell, or have con- sumers been unwilling to buy ? Come, Mr. Ellis, and let us reason together. The ground Las yielded its accustomed quantity of cereals, and farmers and deal- ers have been anxious to sell, but why have they not soid, Mr. Ellis ? The rea- son is consumers have had no money to pay for breadstuffs ana provisions, but why have they not ? Because Mr. Ellis’ candidate for President, W. J. Bryan, and u number of cthers of his way of thinking enacted a law three years ago which closed our industries and threw thousands of our fellow - conntrymen out of emplovment, thus depriving them of opportunity to eara money to buy farm products and milt fabrics, and that is why there is “overpro- duction when there are thousands of our {eliow-countrymen starving and have no clothes to wear.”” . Mr. Eliis is in California to persuade the people to vote for Bryan and continue these conditions. To be sure, Mr. Ellis says if the mints are thrown open to the free and unlimited coinage of silver there would be plenty of money to buy the over- production of food produects, but he must explain how the opening of the mints to the silver of his State is going to open the avenues of labor employmentin S8an Fraa- cisco; and he must explain how the stary- ing thousands are going to get hold of the silver dollars made of Utah white metal unless the mills and factories are opened to their skill and muscle. It is a mere pretense to attribute the hard times 1o the fact that all our currency is on a gold basis. Good money never made times hard. Those who assert that our present in- dustrial and financial depression is the re- suit of the gold standard have notread Amer- ican history aright or been careful stu- dents of the events of recent years. We never had greater prasperily in this country, in every field of employment and industry, than in the busy years from 1880 to 1892, during all of which time this country wason a gold basis and employed more gold money in its fiscal business operations than ever before.— McKinley. FIVE TO ONE. Five for McKinley to one for Bryan the way the commercial travelers of Cali- fornia stand, as shown by THE Cary’s poll of nearly 200 representative members of the fraternity. This showing is not sur- prising, for commercial travelers must have good times to make their journeys profitable, and times have not been good since Bryan’s kind of a tariff superseded the McKinley law. i It may be said that the commercial traveler has a better opportunity than any one else to know the state of trade. He is in close touch with the retailer of goods and wares all the time. If the coun- try is buying goods liberally his booking of orders is large, and if buying is light orders come slowly and for small quanti- ties, Hence it is that the opinion of a “sample merchant” of the present ana prospective state of trade the country ovar is accepted as reflecting the true condition of general business. hen such a large majority of the com- mercial travelers give it as their opinion | the tunnels ere barely perceptible when once that the trade and commerce of the coun- try need not expect any expansion in vol- ume until the McKinley theory of protec- tion is put into practical operation, it is perfectly safe to act upon it. COAST EXCHANGES. The Astoria Neus, twenty months old, has increased its size and will endeayor to widen its sphere of influence. Its editors express the belief that the tone of jourmalism in Astoria has been raised about half a note or more since the News entered the fleld. Bright and attractive is the initial numbre of The Western Shoeman, to be published weekly in San Francisco and Denver. It 1s issued in magazine form, twenty-six pages, and & high degree of excellence has been attained in its printing and illustrations, It is the first pub- lication of the kind west of the Missouri River and will strive to enable the shoe- dealers scattered over this great expanse of couxtry to feel the pulse of trade without con- sulting the distant Eastern journals. That the people of Oakland are not falling over one anotherin the effort to sustain the cause of free silver is made evident by the fate of the short-lived paper “16 to 1.’ Itdied within & month of its birthday and right in the heart of the campaign, too. The editors declare that they obtained no support and could not run the sheet on wind. There lesson in their parting words: ‘‘Our mistake was in believing that a good many more peo- ple wanted the sort of paper we issued than w. found to bethe case, therefore We promptly closed the incident.” The Vallejo Times was twenty-one years old last Tuesday. Itistoo bed to seea healthy, good-looking young paper like that following & Eryanese will-o’-the-wisp at such an age. The Reno (Nev.) Gazette has just opened its forty-second volume. It isone of the stanch Republican papers of our sister State that the silver barons, with all their influence, could not draw a from the cause of protection and sound money. Eureka, Cal, has a new dally paper, the Double Standard, Itstrikes us that it is a mis- nomer. It favors a policy that will simply lead to silver monometallism and Single Stan- dard would appear to be a more appropriate title for it, J. 8. Taylor has resurrected the Arbuckle Transcript. Itis a Democratic paper now. At the top of the eaitorial page is the motto, “Ir- rigate or Emigrate.” If this be a Demoeratic order and its alternative it is too severe. There are many good people who neither drink nor vote that way. The Dunsmuir News says that the new rail- road now being built from Upton to the Mc- Cloud River will be a valuable piece of prop- erty when completed. It will control a body of sugar-pine timber that is 100 miles long and can be built through a country that is rich in agriculture and stock-raising, and that is now 400 miles from a railroad in any direction. A country 400 miles square 1s a principality in itself. There is nothing to hinder the pro- Jectors of this road from becoming enormously rich. J. W. Lee has commenced the publication of the Pomona Democrat. It is opined that he will find it wearing on his strength to row against the swelling tide of McKinleyism down that way. The St. Helena Star has celebrated its twen- ty-second birthday. The longer it shines the brighter it gets. Year by year it becomes more and more ap- parent, says the Ukiah Herald, that the lands in Mendocino County, on the headwaters of Russian River, embracing many thousand scres, may be ranked among the best grape. growing lands of the State. “This is espeeially true of table grapes. A number of vineyards in the immediate vicinity of Ukiah, by the yield of the present year, prove this beyond all contradiction. The wine made by & faw of our vineyardists sells in San Francisco much #bove market quotations, and yet but few of our people have turned their attention 10 grape-growing as a business. Let us hope that some of our enterprising men having lands suitable may turn their attention to this in- dustry and show to the world what Mendocino can do in the way of wine and raisins.” The Redding Free Press informs us that the Integral Quicksilver Mining Company, at Cin- nabar, have put a large force of men to work cleaning up and further developing their property. “The Altooons mine is being run &t its fullest capacity. About 650 flasks of quicksilver, valued at $26,000, are produced monthly. The company gives employment to over 350 men, sixty-five of that number being underground miners. Although the camp is wholly dependent upon the mining indnstry, which might iead one to believe that it would cause sympathy for the free silver movement, there are a large number of Republicans there.” A rich and extensive copper mine is located in the mountains near Fresno and the Republi- can of that city, in telling its readers about it, remarks that the fact will probably be news to a majority of Fresno people, but that they have become accustomed to surprises in the line of natural resources and now take them in a matter of fact way. Saysthe Republican: “The Copper King was discovered some twelve years ago, but was not worked to any kreat extent until the present company—the Los Angeles Petroleum, Smelting and Mining Company—bonded the mine and began oper- ating 1t, finding a marvelously rich body of ore. The mine is the property of Hugh Knep- per, who ran about 180 feet of tunneling, This was about eight years ago and the ore taken out was shipped by way of Cape Horn to Baltimore, where it was reduced. Copper was at that time very high. “The present company, of which Dr. G. H. Bryaunt of Los Angeies is the prime mover, took charge of the property about ten months ago, and has been developing it ever since. Thir- teen men are now employed at the mine, but the company will soon put on & larger force. A number of improvements will be made in the near future. “The main body of ore lies in & semicircle inalaminated formation, and a tunmnel 450 feet long bas been cut tnrough from one ravine to another, following the apex of the ore body, which lies in large swells, showing a width of from a few feet to as high as twenty- eight feet, “The ore is in three forms—black oxide, sulphite and carbonate. The black oxide pre- dominates and is the richest. It looks not un- like hard coal, but is much heavier and crum- bles very easily. A recent assay of the ox- 1de, taken from where the ledge is twenty- elght feet wide, showed 37 per cent of copper, $9 per ton in gold and some silver. The black oxide will average from $70 to $80 a ton in ail,and some of it goes as high as $12 in gold.” NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES, The British battie-ship Prince George, 14,900 tons, had an eight-hour trial recently under natural draught, which proved highly satls- factory, as the spee@ was 16.52 knots with 10,464 horsepower. The ship’s draught was 24 feet 11 inches forward and 25 feet 2 inches aft, or About 1500 tons short of her sea-going displacement. Epain is preparing to increase her navy, and has made contracts with an English firm for the coustruction ol a 10,500-ton battle-ship and a cruiser of 6500 tons. In adaition a cruiser of 1800 tons and 20-knot speed, and also two torpedo-desiroye: re to be built in England. Tke battle-ship and large cruiser are to be built and delivered in the shortest possible time, and only eighteen months’ time is allowed for the small cruiser. Experiments with petroleum fuel have been made by all great naval powers of late years, and the prospects are that it will be largely adopte¢, and, so far &s torpedo - boats are concerned, will take the place of coal and other fuel. The advantages consist of a large reduction in weight; the oil can be stored for the most part below the water line, out of the way of shells. There is no danger of spon- taneous combustion as with coal, and the boilers are less liable to injury, as the oil con- tains no sulphur. Firing is extremely simple, the force of firemen can oe greatly reduced, can be taken on board in midocean and in rough weather. Th2 evaporative power of the oil is weight for weight superior to thatof coal, and finally the smoke and flame from the draught 15 adjusted. Fleet Engineer Burnett of H. B. M. ship Blake, in charge of the engine-room of that ship when a fireman was scalded to death through an accident to the boilers, was charged with manslaughter by the Coroner’s jury. The crown, however, has set the ver- dict aside ahd he is now to be tried by court- martial for neglect of duty. Rear-Admiral Fournier of the French navy has prepared a naval programme of a very revolutionary kind, but whieh has much to recommend its adoption. Part of the scheme carried into effect is the assignment oi three armored crnisers as a “superior naval schoot,” to which officers of marked ability in special branches will be ordered for a course of prac- tical training. His scheme also contemplates & permanent cruising fleetat sea of 117 war vessels, besides about 300 torpedo-boats. He estimates the yearly cost of construction at $15,000,000, to continue for twenty-five years, at the end of which time the fleet will consist of the most recent improvements in ships, machinery. armament and other appliances. The Chilean Government recently sent out a circular letter offering to gunners and boat- swains in the British navy who possess mas- ter’s certificates $90 a month to join the Chilean navy: The purpose is to place these officers in charge of torpedo-boats and teach Chilean sailors how to handle them, The French cruiser Alger recently beat the British steamer Empress of China by two hours in the run from Kobe to Yokohoma. The Alger is of 4122 tons displacement ana 8000 horsepower, while the Empress of China is about 8000 tons and 10,000 horsepower. The Alger’s trial speed was 19.5 knots. PERSONAL. Dr, C. W. Weaver of Healdsburg is staying at the Russ. . A. Rust of the United States navy is staying &t the Occidental. J. B. Hooper, a mining man from Mokelumne Hill, 1s at the Palace. Sergeant Martin of Angel Island is a guest at the Cosmopolitan. W. L. Kistler, a merchant of Reno, Nev., is registered at the Lick. E. E. Biggs, the Gridley banker, is making a short stay at the Grand, E. Dinkelspiel, & Suisun merchant, regis- tered at the Grand last night. A. M. Hunt, a railroad man of Los Angeles, is staying at the Lick for a few days. Daniel Rellly, acapitalist of Merced City, is staying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. W. H. Hilton of Glen Ellen, a vineyardist and wine-producer, is at the Grand. J. Ralston Bell of Denver, & mining man, is among the latest arrivals at the Palace. Colonel George Hager of Colusa, ex-Collector of the Port, arrived at the Palace last night. George Crocker returned to the Palace last night with his wife after a visit to Monterey. Ray S. Bartlett, manager of the Merced base- ball team, is & guest at the Cosmopolitan Ho- tel. J. W. Weinberg,"swner of mining property at Angels Camp, isregistered at the Lick with his wife. D. J. Heck, s business man of New York, with his wife is staying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. D. E. Knight, gener ville Woolen Mills, is visiting at the Lick with his wife. Milo M. Pattes, one of the proprietors of the Hotel Westminster at Los Angeles, is a guest maneager of the Marys- at the Lick. J. A. MacKenzie, who is in the merchandise business at Merced, arrived at the Grand yesterday. John C. Mogk, & grain and commission mer- chant of Coluss, is registered at the Grand with his wife. P. B. Gallagher, a commercial man of this State, is among the recent arrivals at the Cos- mopolitan Hotel. F. L. Clacker, captain and quartermaster of the Veterans’ Home at Yountville, is & late ar- rival at the California. J. W. Woodruff, & capitalist of Philadelphia, arrived at the Lick yesterday in the course of & pleasure trip through the State. John Rice of Carson, Nev., who has been en- gaged in the mining business for a great many years, is in town as a guest at the Grand. H. B. Shackelford, formerly civil engineer on the Palo Alto ranch and now master me- chanic on the Vina ranch, took a room last night at the Grana. Among the arrivals at the Grand yesterday was J. R. Reed, a well-known resident of Orosi, Tulare County, after whose brother the neigh- boring town of Reedley was named. C. H. Palmer of Butte, Mont., and J. A, Co- ram of Lowell, Mass., directors of the Merced Gold Mining Company at Coulterville, are at the Palace, having just returned after an in- spection of their property, upon which they propose soon to make extensive improvements. ‘ODDS AGAINST BRYAN. BETTING MEN SAY THE CHANCES ARE ALL IN FaYor oF MCKINLEY. New York Herald. There are many men ji now who are anx- ious to back their political opinion by money, and many wagers are being made on the result of the election. The betting in this city is ail in favor of McKinley, and the Bryan men in- sist on getting big odds against their candi- date. In ail the betting centers there is plenty of money to stake on the Republican side, and all offers made by Popocrats are quickly cov- ered. The greatest difficulty encountered by the betting conitngent up to date is that all the money is on the same side, and thatitis not easy to place large sums on the general result. The odds in McKinley’s favor vary mate- rially, bul are rarely lower than 5 to 2, and are sometimes quoted 5 to 1. Most of the money veuntured auring the last week has been on results in different States or cities. In for- mer elections bets have been made on the size of the Democratic piurality in this city. This year the question is,Which party will get a piu- rality? Ullman & Rankin, bookmakers, who have studied the situation all over the coun- iry, have posted the following bettiug odds on local resuits: Electoral States. 0dds. Vote. Geueral result. 23 (0 1. New York City.. Even Alabama. 214 Candidate. P koK, MRS g 9 i -av?wau-«uenuuvwng-w-ud«e:a“. 585 558558 o figures indicate a belief that McKinley will carry many of the so-called ‘“‘doubtful States,” and that he will have a substantial majority in the electoral college. The betting in each case is that the candidate named wiil carry the State, not that it will go against him, Stockton Independent. The Examiner on Wednesday pleaded that the Hearst mines were for the most part gold properties and yesterday’s CALL admits it, but shows that three siiver mines are included. One of these has paid §9,000,000 in dividends d is valued at $525,030 80; another is valued at $1,226,678, and the third $10,181 20, besides other silver mining stocks not speci- fied. THE CALL calculates that if free coinage should work as the silverites hope it will the 1?:- t income would be increased ,000 a ear, Now arises the guestion: Who would ose what Mr. Hearst would gain? The out- put of the mines would not be increased, but the hope is tat the price of the product would ce. ‘di!l:: o::ly owing the silver men make to this effect is that the stamp of the Govern- ment and the legal tender quality imparied to silver by converting bullion into cof would have that effect. Tuis would be to leave the ‘bullion of the same value, but all the owner wou!d have to do would be to hate it coined and the same amount of coin would pay twice as much of debt or_wages as would a like amonnt of bullion. If this would work, as the Bryanites insist it would, then every ounce of b\thm would be rushed to the mints to have its vaiue doubled, the owners would pay ‘17“1‘ nothing but silver, everybody else would od- low example, gold would disappear an the single -d’m standard would be here of its own force. It is no wonder the Examiner AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Robert V. Robertson, journalist and politi- cian, a former Bohemian and great favorita among the Bohemians of this City because of his qualities as an entertainer, is at the Russ. Mr. Robertson is now the editor and proprietor of a live daily paper, called the Nugget, in Placerville, EI Dorado County. The burden of Mr. Robertson’s conversation mow Is his town and county, the progress and life of the farmer and the inexhaustible resources of the latter. “I don't believe I am speaking disparage ingly of other mming counties in this State of ours when I say El Dorado stands sece ond to mone in great mineral resources, de- veloped and undeveloped,” said he, cutting the tip from a iresh cigar. “You know we are on the mother lode, the richest gold min= ing belt we believe in the United States. Now ROB V. ROBERTSON, Editor and Proprietor of the Placerville Daily “Nugget,” Now on a Visit Here. [Sketehed from life by a “Call” artist.] has changed in one short year from a gold- standard paper to & rampant free silverite: “Where a man’s treasure is, there is his heart also,” TRUE SADNESS OF AUTUMN. 1 cannot share the moan tney made, Those poets of the oiden time, Who wept to see the flowers fade Beneath the breath of sutumn’s rime. No sympathy is In my breast For grievings vain o’er fallen leaves, Or sickly screeds of vague unrest Which every autumn poet weaves. The frosty season never brought One throb of honest sorrow Gl Shirt waists were added to the lot Of lovely things the frosts must kill. —uvetroit News. CAMPAIGN ECHOES. Bryan didn’t gét a single quotation mark in tne'wrong place Sunday, owing to the fact that they succeeded in persuading him not to say anything.—Cleve d Leader. Chairman Jones’ estimate of Bryan major- fties is based on the free-silyer theory, of course, and hence needs to be discounted at least 49 per cent—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Grimshaw—What is your politics, sir? Gassaway—I am a firm believer in the free and unlimited coinage of silver, sir. Grimshaw—Huh. Thatisn’t politics; it's & disease.—Puck. Is it Bryan and Sewsll, or Bryan and Wat- son? It is immaterial. In either case it is Brysn and Populism—Bryan and repudiation —Bryan and riot—Bryan and ruin.—Louisville Courijer-Journal. Now Don Carlos in Spain threatens to take the throne and sail in and lick the United States. By this time mext year Major Me- Kinley and the standing army may have their hands full.—Wichita Eagle. Billy Bryan, the father of misquoters, is at it again. He says in a late sreech: “I believe with Jefferson that error is harmless when reason is left free to combat iL.” Jefferson’s words are, “Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."—St Louis Globe-Democrat. “Bear in mind,” says Washington in his farewell address, “that toward the payment of debt there must be revenue.” ‘‘Bosh, ys Mr. Bryan. “Inflate the currency 100 per cent snd we reduce the burden one-half. Then let us inflate again aud wipe it out altogether. Revenue be hanged. Give us cheap money and let the debt slide.”—New York Mail and Express. LADY'S WAIST WITH SCALLOPED ELGES OVER FULL VEST. A delightfully simple waist, suitable alike for silk, wool or velvet, is pictured here. The back is smooth over the shoulders with the fullness gathered at the waist line over a fitted lining. The front is also smooth at the top over a fitted lining, which fastens in the cen- ter, the fuil vest hooking under the edge of the entt i ol 3 of t unutbwklnthuspunvn . s A waist of dark blue basket cloth had & vest of orange velvet; the scallops were bound with gilt braid, edged with & flat band of heavy A dress of fancy silk in petunia color had a Mol)demluwehmon;r:n of the scal- lops were finished with a narrow sementerie in several shades of yel A waist of black velvet had sleeves of plack mousseline de soie over bright green silk. The ‘vest was of th and the scallops were "The collar full ruche of ‘black mousseline de soie set in the top. join remember I am not taiking up & mining town, for that is about the most fatal thing that can happen to any good substantial mining country, as it is productive of speculators ine stead of Investors, and there is a great differ- ence between the two. I can essure you. Asit now is up there men are taking hold of prop- erties for the purpose of working them for all there is in them, instead of making a hola in the ground and then trying to sell a mine which may or not be there. “Among the most important of the deais this year was the recent sale of the Gentle Annie group of mines, situated about three miles out of Placerville, The property was pur- chased by T. T. Lane and qthers at a large figure, and the conditions of sale make it ineumbent upon the purchasers to sink two large compartment sbafts and mine the prop- erty thoroughly. This, of course, means & good desl in the way of employment to men and the circulation of money. We all have the satisfaction of knowing it is a good group of mines. “A number of the old properties are being taken hold of and pushed. With the modern machinery and mining appliances rock that did not pay in the early days can now be worked at a very large profit, and the old abandoned bonanzas of other days are proving veritable bonanzas again under this new de- velopment. We are blessed up there, too, with fine timber and plenty of it, together with lota of water, all very close to the properties, and every miner will tell you what a saving such conveniences are. “Placerville? Well, the town keeps moving shead all the time, naturally under the impetus given it by mining developments, Perhaps as good an illustration of its growth ig seen in this fact. When I went there aboug elght months ago there were a few vacant houses in the town, but only a few and not all of them desirable. Now I know of atleastsix families there who ecannot obtain houses in which to live and who are stopping at hotels awaiting the erection of houses. The sound of the hammer and the saw has been incessang almost for the vast year. Oh, yes, Piacervilla is getting a good, healthy, steady growth, ~How is it going politically? Well, now, that is & poser. EIl Dorado has always inclined to the Democracy. But that was the regular old Democracy. Whether this new organizae tion will attract them Iam indoubt. I have been stumping the country a little and Ican tell you as & good hard-shell Republican that I feel enconraged. I think perhaps if the elec~ tion had been held afew days after the Chicaga convention the whole country would have voted for Bryan, but the people have been thinking since then, and while the inclinationg of the country are in the direction of triendli- ness for silver the people are beginning to dis« cover that after all the Republican party ig the best friend of that metal. I haveno fear of the result. 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