The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 6, 1897, Page 6

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The Legislature starts well. There will be economy at Sacramento this time. ‘What has Senator Perkins done to merit a re-election? California should have a Senator who is able to speak for her. The resolutions against the funding bill will get to Washington in time to do good service. The voce with which California speaks in the great councils of the Nation should be en eloquent voice. All inaugural addresses make an appeal for economy, and Mayor Pnelan’s was in the height of fashion. Republican legislators will remember it isnever advisable in politics any more than in war to make the move the enemy desires. The way to advance the prestige of Cali- fornia in the Union is to put to the front men who have in them some of the vigor of the State. 1t is a sure thing that the favorite can- didate for the Senate of the Democratic organs is not the best candidate for the Republicen part; : The Post says, ““There will be a ‘vacancy in the office of United States Senator from California if Mr. Perki is re-elected,” and the Post is well posted. It goes without saying the Eraminer would never support a_candidate for the United States Senate whose election would strengthen the Republfean party. The Ezaminer may Pe “He is nos a Ma , for in- stance Bowers, when it comes fundi "—but what is he then? tin saying of or California requires mu; » important leg- islation from National Government, but she will never get it upless she sends a man of force and ab to the Senate. The persistent sugestion by the Eram- inerof the possible use of a sack at the State capital is doubtles: c: by a lively rememb e of the Se. 1 election of 1887. It must be borne in mind thatone of the Senators from ornia is a Democratic free-trader. Can the Republican protec- tionists of the State afford to leavq their interests in the Senate to him or toa dummy? According to the E cratsin the Legislature have been “out- spoken in saying they would vote for Per- kins at once in case the pinch came on a contest.”” What is the meaning of that sort of fusion? No man should be seut to the United States Senate to represent the Republicans of California who emnvloyed his energies in the last campaign in looking after his own personal advancement ingtead of the success ot the party. Dr. Abbott of the Massachusetts Board of Health is quoted as saying the use of the bicyele has diminished the death- rate of women in New England from pui- monary diseases, but there are others who dispute the learned gentieman, and de- clare he has wheelslonthe brain. The recommendation of the Gavernor that charitable, educational and similar institutions should be relieved of the tax on bequests to them is a good one. Itis for the general welfare that such institu- tions exist and it is absurd to tax the gifts which liberal men and women bestow upon them. The only insinuation of a corrupt use of money in this Legislature and the only assertion of a desire of any of the mem- bers to obtain bribes have come from the Ezaminer, Which is making Perking’ fight. Is any further proof needed that the in- sinuations are malicious and the asser- tions mere fakes? In an earnest plea for Perkins the Eram- iner correspondent at Sacramento declares an inability to see why the Scathern Pa- cific should oppose him, and adds “i should not think the raflroad would feel that Perkins was a man to be looked npon with intense alarm.” As the Examuner 18 the personal organ of Perkins in the con- test this bid for railroad support is signifi- cant. The Ezaminer pubiished yesterday un- der scare heads a long and lurid story of a direful mystery and tragedy at Anderson. The same story was sent to THE CALL, but by our correspondent was investigated and found to be a hoax. The Ezaminer, of course, never invéstigated. It spends so much time and money on fakes it has neither for use in getting legitimate news and getting it right. While Senator Perkins‘and his political manager were haunting the hallways and anterooms of county conventions, seif- ishly intruding Mr. Perking’ personal in- terest and ambition to succeed himself into the campaign, Samuel M. Shortridge was traveling throughout California, elo- quently, ably and unselfishly fighting for the success of the National ticket and for the election of a Republican -Legisiature, which would alone make possible the choice of a Republican Senator. Which of these gentlemen was engaged in the most laudable effort, and which has thereby shown himself most worthy of its reward? to the | { | citiz THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1897 unduly hastened in their merit may seek to employ. mose slowly. nently qualified for the place. they will honor with their support. Shortridge will surely win. cesses of life. a lawyer of widely recognized his sympathies. schools. in its college of law. members of the Legislature think of the San Francisco S reiterated sult to them and each of them lin its daily tion of a “sack?® at the Capital and of the likelihood that black will go hand in ning their choice sagge: and bribery hand deter of a Senator THE GOVERNOR'S M_ESSAGE. The first biennial message of Governor Budd is long enough to form a fair-si: volume, and probably will be read only by those who have large leisure or else take great interest in public affairs. Nevertoe- lese, it is well worth the reading of every n, inasmuch as it gives a fairly com- plete review of the conditicns of cur polit- ical instit ons, and recommends reme- dies where defects or evils have been en by experience to exist. The Governor devote important part of his message to consider- ations of economy. He s : “I turn from the natural advant s bestowed upon us to contemplate with regret the political conditions with which we have surrounded ourselves.” He then pro- ceeds to elaborate upon the extravagance and waste current in several departments of the 8 ject makes many recommendations which will be cordially supported by the people. The State Board of Examiners is said to have found official salaries and wages for the same service exceedingly dispropor- tionate, the numbear of employes excessive, alack of uniformity in the system of keep- ing books, and that attendants in the various asylums vary greatly in the ratio to the inmates thereof. To remedy these and kindred evils, the Governor recom- mends the appointment of a central body with power to prescribe the number of employes and their compensation, and also to havea general business supervision of the affairs of the institutions of the State. The Governor points with satisfaction to the saving which has been made by economies introduced during his term of office. He estimates that by the transfer of the Viticultural Commission to the university, the removal of the office of the Board of Horticulture to Sacramento and the veto of appropriations for district fairs, and by the repeal of the acts grant- ing aid to aged indigents and paving bounties for coyote scalps, $1,239,451 has been saved ; and adds that “including the veto of the appropriations for district sgricultural societies, 1 felt constrained to disapprove of over $1,000,000 of appropria- tion bills.” 1t is calenlated that if the appropria- tions for purposes other than the regular running expenses of the government be kept within reasonable bounds the condi- tion of the treasury 1s such that within the mext two fiscal vears, on the present valuation of property, the tax rate will be less than 38 cents for $100, and if the grad- uated corporation income tax and the excise license tax raise $1.500,000 between them for State purposes the people of the State will be compelled to pay less than 26 cents on the $100 valuation of property. To emphasize this poirt the Governor adds: “The Leyislature that accomplishes this good end will stand out as the greatest our State has ever had.” In the way of constitutional amend- ments the Governor declares that legis- Iative terms of sixty days are too short for the work of the State, and recommends an amendment extending the term to not exceeding 100 days and prohibiting the introduction of bills in either body after the first thirty days exceptin cases of urgency. The Governor's term. it is recommended, should commence on the first Monday of July succeeding his elec- tion, the Legislature to meet in the Janu- ary following, so that each Governor will have more time at the beginning of his term to devote to State affairs and the Legislature ample leisure in which to make a study of State institutions, con- sider recommendations and formulate needed laws. : The messagé as a whole deserves com- mendation. It is not probable that afl the recommendations wili be adopted, but it is evident that the Governor has given a careful consideration to all our Btate in- stitutions and bas labored earnestly to promote economy and good government. It is clear that this Legislature means to practice economy as well as to talk about it, and as a consequence it will be ranked among the best in the history of the State, d | abilities than he for the diversified duties of a Senator. energies, its ambition, its ardent and untiring’ effort to attain the honors and suc- He has a personal presence which attracts, and a magnetism of manner which retains the regard and respect of men. ability, for years considered and consuited as one of the foremost leaders of the Repub- lican party. Above all, he is a true son of California in his education, his interests and As a boy he worked in its mines; asa youth he lived amid the farms and orchards of its fertile valleys, and exhausted all the learning of its public As a young man he was a public school teacher, and later again a student His manhood has been devoted to the labors of his profession, varied only by his unselfish loyalty and willing and distingunishea service to the Republi- can party in councils, conventions and campaigns. schooled himself to a most intimate knowledge of the resources, the rights and the needs of California until to-day there is no one among her citizens who is superiorin ability to represent in the Senate the claims of California to favorable legislation and to a place of influence and honor amony her sister States. With such a candidate for Senator before the Legislature, asking only an honest and deliberate expression of their untrammeled preference, cannot afford to be hasty in their action nor to be enticed into caucuses or alliances which would in any way impede or prevent their choice for Senator of the candidate most clearly and eminently qualified for the place. | [ te government, and on this sub- | | | | municipal improvements. THE DUTY OF DELIBERATION, The Republican members of the Legislature should not allow themselves to be oice of a Senator, nor to be misted from their duty of deliberation by any tacticsAvhich those who rely for victory upon other things than The statutes of the United States wisely provide for an intermission of more than a week between the date of organization and the time when the real work of choosing a Senator shall begin, and they further require that when begun the procedure shall The evident reason for this delay is to promote that careful canvassing of the merits of candidates which should result in the selection of the one most emi- This wise purpose of the Federal laws should not be argued away by any such nonsense as ante-campaign and ez parte instructions, nor set aside by the dragooning | plan of a caucus of less than a majority of the Legislature. California when such schemes for compelling the selection of the less able candidate should be frowned upon by every legislator who takes pride in the exercise of his own independent judgment in the choice of the ablest man, The time has also arrived when California should be represented at Washington by brains instead of moneybags; by an orator and statesman rather than by a million- aire; by a man of ideas and eloquence in the place of a-possessor'of dollars and cor- porate coupons; by a gentleman of independent mind, of broad culture, of exact and eloquent expression, and of far-seeing views of the power and future of our splendid State, instead of one whose claims to preference are founded upon fortunate invest- ments in lands, or mines, or ships, or stocks. lature should give careful thougkt to these things in determining what quality of man The time has come in The Republican members of the Legis- The friends of Samuel M. Shortridge have based his claims to preference upon merit alone, and if the merit of & candidate is to be the measure of his success Mr. There is no citizen of California to-dsy who has greater He has youth, with all its He is an orator of National reputation, and in politics he has been In all of these capacities he has s Republican members WHAT do the Republican, MAYOR PHELAN'S ADDRESS. The inaugural address of Mayor Phelan is a plea for economy, review of some of the departments of our municipal govern- ment in which waste exists, and an out- line of a policy by which these wasies may be largely counteracted and the de- sired economy obtained.. The Mayor points out that a new spirit is awake in San Francisco. As he says: “‘The rise of improvement clubs, the dis- cussion of a new charter and the imposi- tion of an excessive tax have brought the forces of good government to the front to make a battle for better, more progressive and more widely economical administra- tion of municipal affairs.” He reminds the Supervisors: “The people have ex- pressed contidence in your willingness and ability to undertake this task, and they | place their reliance in your integrity and honor.” These words we trust will have due weight with the Supervisors and that they will cordially co-operate with the Mayor in - establishing a business - Iike administration of the affairs of the City. Mayor Phelan is careful to point out « the first and most | {hat economy does not mean’ parsimony. The people desire the public revenue to be prudently expended, but they also desire the accomplishment of -long - needed High taxation in the past has been due moie to waste and extravagance than to anything else, and itis quite possible for the new City government to provide for economy and progress at the same time. The review given by the Mayor of the places where waste of public money is carried on is a repetition of an old story thoroughly familiar to the veople. He has not covered the whole of this subject, put what he has said is clear and em- Moreover he promises to call the on of the Supervisors at some time to other departments which are extrava- gantly conducted, and therefore we may expect of him in the end a complete an- alysis of this evil in our municipal admin- istration. After dealing with some of the more im- portant features of our municipal life, such as ths water and lighting supply, the school department, streets and high- ways, railway franchises and the health department, the Mayor returns again to the importance of economy. In conclu- sion he says: The watchword of our administration must then be, and the sentiment involves no incon- sistency, enlightened economy and munieipal progress. San Francisco, by reason of its loca- tion, is oneof the great cities of the world, and it snould also, with its natural advan- tages, be one of the most attractive and pros- perous citles. Itrust that you will dedicate your labors to realization of these ends. On the policy thus outlined, the Mayor will have the cordial approval of the people of San Francisco. Progress and economy are watchwords which euit the new opportunities that are opening in our city. We must go forward and our going will be dependernt upon the sagacity of those who have been entrusted with charge of our municipal affairs. Mayor Phelan will have the general support of his feliow-citizens in the work he hus out- lined and a cordial co-operation to assist him in making his administration a credit to himself and a benefic to the munici- pality. THE INHERITANCE TAX. Among the feaiures of the Governor's message which deserve special considera- tion is that referring to the tax on col- lateral inheritances, so far as it affects charitable, educational, eleemosynary and like institutions. The Governor recom- mends that the tax on bequests to these bodies should be abolished and the recom- mendation is certainly deserving of adop- tion by the Legislature. ; As the Governor says: “While it is complained that the anlount expended by the State for the care of orphans, etc., continues to increase with alarming rapid- ity, aid some safeguard must be thrown around this law if we are to keep within the bounds of reasonable econemy, I hope you will not be deterred thereby from in- cluding these classes and the institutions devoted to their care in the exemption.” ‘As an evidence of the benefit to be gained by exempting charitable institu- tions from the tax on collateral inherit- ance it may be pointed out that on the bequests made by the late Senator Fair there would-be saved $2500 to the Protest- ant orphan asylums, §2500 to ‘Catholic or- phan asylums and $1250 to the Hebrew orphan asylums of this City. These sums would be of comparatively little value to the State, but would aid those charitable institutions largely in their good work and would help to educate children to be- come useful citizens of the common- ‘wealth, / The subject hardly needs argument, It is plain even. to- the unreflecting that the State can gain nothing from taxing such mstitutions and weakening their benefits to those who need help. A tax upon charity and education is literally a tax upen the children and the poor of the commonwealth who have no money of their own and no relatives or friends to belp them. What is taken from them must be made up either by State aid or by the liberality of generous men and women. There can be therefore no profit to the State from such a tax, and the sooner such institutions are relieved from the overation of the present law the better it will be for all. AUDAQITY AND INSULT. The 8an Francisco Eraminer, which has either made itself or has been made the organ of Senator Perkins, and the arrogant advocate of his re-slection, has furnished the Republicans of California with food for serious thought.: Is it among the possibilities-that this Ishmeelite amgng newspapers, this outcast' in journalism which bas so lately been publiciy scourged, and pil- loried for offenses against truth and de- cency which only a shameless pander among publications would dare to at- tempt, can have any favorable influence upon the cheice of a Senator by a Repub- lican Legislature? Isit a thing to be per- mitted that the newspaper which, as the organ of the fusionists during the recent campaign, spewed its venom at the leaders and candidates of the Republican party, and especially endeavored to defeat its nominees to the Legislature, should now dictate to the very men whom it libeled and maligned and vilified which way their duty lies? If we mistake not the character and temper of the Republican members of the Legislature, they will regard the Examin- er's support of Mr. Perkins as a disaster to his hope and a most convincing reason for his defeat. }‘.»X-PAKTE INSTRUCTIONS. The San Francisco Ezaminer and other supporters of Senator Perkins are insist- ing with great vehemence upon the bind- ing force upon members of the Legislature of the indorsements which were given to Senator Perkins by some county conven- tions at the beginning of the recent cam- paign. They declare these indorsements are of such force that no legislator can vote for any other man for United States Senator without being guilty of something like party treason, and assert that Senator Perkins has a lien upon the senatorship which no man in the State has a right to dispute. Claims of this kind will hardly have any weight with men of intellgence. No man can assert that the senatorship is his property without a degree of arro- gance and assumption which will be offensive to every legislator, who has a rightful sense of his own dignity or the responsibilities of his office. T'he indorse- ments given to Senator Perkins are not in any sense binding upon a legislator. The conventions which gave them were not chosen for the purpose of electing a United States Senator, and therefore had no authority to bind those who are charged with that duty under the law. It is easy to see how Senator Perkins obtained such indorsements as were given to him. The contest before the Republi- cans of the State in the last campaign was a most difficalt and arduous one. The fusion which had been brought about be- tween silver Republicans, Democrats and Populists threatened to subvert the Re- publican forces in the State and to carry California for Bryan. Under those cir- cumstances every patriotic member of the Republican party laid aside all thought of personal advantage or ambition, and strove earnestly for the success of the party without consideration of selfish in- terests. Those who were lasa\ loyal had therefore a free field for tne 'display of their personal ambitions and easily se- cured indorsements. It was well known to the abler leaders | of the Republican party that if a contest arose over the senatorship which would divide and carry dissensions into the rank and file the party would be hope- lessly beaten. They therefore stood aside from such a contest and sought only to make sure of a victory for McKinley elec- tors and a Republican Legisiature. There was but one Republican in the State who intruded his personal ambitions into the contest and subordinated the party to himself. He bad a clear field for the ex- ercise of his talents in gaining indorse- ments, and it is not to be wondered that wien no rival appeared he should have succeeded in deriving something of versonal advantage from inconsiderate county conventions. Indorsements given in this way are purely “ex parte.”” They result from the hearing of one side only. The Republican leaders who earnestly desired the success of their party did not care to combat this demonstration of selfishness, as they feared the contest would be more disas- trous than the selfishness itself. In their high regard for public welfare and the 1nterests of genuine Republicanism they avoided this danger of party dissension and acted in such a way as to bring about the victory which was accomplished. Unaer the constitution the L-gislature of the State is charged with the responsi bility of choosing the representative of the State in the United States Senate. -Loyal Republicans did not endeavor to forestall the action of the Legislature nor to de- prive the members of that body of the rights which their duty under the consti- tution gives them. 1t is the right of a legislator to act freely in accordance with the dictates of hie judgment and his con- science 1n the selection of a Senator, and no legislator can surrender that right without sacrifice not only of his personal dignity but dt his official responsibility. THE USUAL INCONSISTENCY. The New York Journal in its issue of somewhat more than a week ago con- tained an article upon Senator Perkins, accompanied with a caricature wherein he was held up to contempt and ridicule as a sort of unctuous nonentity, a make- believe statesman and a laughing stock among the lawmakers at Wasbington. The issue of the Journal containing the article had just aboyy time to reach Cali- fornia when Mr. Hearst's local organ en- tered upon an advocacy of Mr. Perkins' re-election to the Senate with a fulsome- mess of flattery and a degree of partisanship as audacious as 1t was unexpected, even in a newspaper of the Ezaminer’s well-known aptitude for the extreme, A comparison of these op- posing views of Mr. Hearst’s two news- papers suggests the idea that the Ezam- iner is supporting Mr, Perkins in order that the New York Journal may have a suitable target in the event of his election. This is not, however, the only thing of which the Ezaminer's editorial support of Mr. Perkins is strongly suggestive. At the close of his long message Gov- ernor Budd says “Some of our depart- ments I have not touched on.” This may be a hint that the document is to be a serial story. PERKINS San Francisco Post. Many good men in. this State who are aware of the fact that Senator Georze C. Perkins is not our greatest or our wisest Republican are in favor of abandoning the contest against him at Sacramento on the ground ihat several legislators have been pledged to vote for him and no oneran against him in the late canvass. The Post is in favor of electing Senators by popular vote. Four years ago it vicorously agi- tated their nomination by State conven- tions. We believe that as a result of that agitation Mr. Perkins went to the county conventions of the State, made his claims and secured a sufficient number of votes to defeat M. H. de Young, the so-called “railroad candidate.”’ But nevertheless we are not in favor of abandoning the fight against Mr. Perkins because ne has succeeded in pledging a sufficient number of members to control the caucus at Sacramento. Our principa! Teason is that we think the State has had enough of Mr. Perkins. He has served us now about three years. That is as long as we could stand bim in the Governor's office, and there is no good reason why the Republican party should inflict him upon us for six years longer in the United States Senate. There are fifty Republicans available who are wiser and abler and who can do more for their party in the Senate than he. Senator Perkins is a follower, not 2 leader. Personally he is liked and, having risen from cabin-boy on a clipper to the proud station of & steamship millionaire, heis naturally admired by plain prople. But in all his public career he has never said anything or done nymiufi that will outlast™ his generation. The Republican party has men who are intellectually his superiors and who, if elected to the Sen- ate, would leave a mark behind them. There will be a vacancy in the office of United States Senator from California if Mr. Perkins is re-elected. AROUND THE (ORRIDORS. C. B. Bratmober, an extensive dealer at Waterloo, lows, in all kinds of lumber, is at the Occidental, accompanied by Mrs. Brat- nober. They have for some time been at Tacoma and Seattle, where Mr. Bratnober has Dbeen going for several years in the interest of his patrons. He deals largely in white and yellow pine and red cedar, but in fact handles nearly everything in the lumber trade. ““The lumber marketis pretty quiet, and I do not think there will be an immediate rise C. P. Bratnober, the Heavy Dealer in Pacific Coast Lumber. [Sketched from life by a “Call” artist.] in prices,” he said; “there’ is not enough activity anywhere to warrant it. Everybody in the East, at present, as in some places on this coast, is living on hopes. *My interests on Puget Sound relate purely to the lumber product. I am not interested in timber lands there, nor are my associates.”” Mr. Bratnober is en route to Los Angeles for ashort visit. He isa nephew of Mr. Bratnober, the wealthy mining man of this City, who sold the noted Harqua Hala gold mine to British capitalists two or three years ago. NEWSPAYER PLEASANTRY. First Kid—I had a nicer time 'n you on Chrismus. Second Kid—Bet yer didn’t. Philadel phia North American. Pm sick yet— Johnson—I"ve just seen the meanest man on earth. Thompson—You don’t tell me. Who is he? Johnson—0ld Skinner. He gave his boy a snow-snovel for a Christmas present.—Cleve- 1and Leader. Wife—Here’s a message from the next door neighbor, John. John—What is it? Wife—He says if you'll spirit away our Tom- my’s Christmas” horn he'll hide his Willie's drum on the roof.—Philadelphia North Amer- ican. . It s not putting things in the right place ihat bothers a man so much ss finding the right place after he has put things in {t.—Lon- don Tit-Bits. *A poet never writes for money, si ed the long-haired man, oracularly. “What does he write for?”” asked the young business ma “For tame—for fosterity.” «But I have seen some of your poems in the magazines.” “Oh, yes,” replied the long-haired man, carelessly. “‘Of course we have to aceept when editors insist upon paying us for the privilege ’" assert- of conveying our work to posterity.”’—Boston Traveler. Dobson—There goes & man who made his fortune by true grit. Hobson—How did he manage it? Dobson—started a sandpaper faciory.—New York Advertiser. In summing up the military resources of Texas we find that this great State can in an emergency be depended upon for 9604 gen- erals of the different grades, 817,414 colonels, 78,001 lieutenants, colonels, majors, captains and minot officers, to say nothing of 117 pri- vates.—Dallas News. PERSONAL. Al Griffin of Fresno 1s in town. William H. Furlong of Gilroy is registered here. Dr. H. J. Falton of Portland is st the Grand. C. H. Remington of the Lick Paper-milis is in town. J. B. de Jarnatt, an attorney of Colusa, isat the Grand. Johp C. F. Randolph of New York arrived here last night. E. E. Bush, a real estate dealer of Hanford, arrived here yesterday. A. C. Hamilton, the mining man of Vir ginia City, is at the Palace. John Thomann, owner of a large vineyard near St. Helena, is fn the City. Lymen M. Parker and N. J. Armstrong, both of La Mesa, Cal,, are at the Lick. M. L. Kelevy of Boston, Mass,, is at the Occi- dental, accompanied by his wife. 0. R. Runyon, the wealthy resident of Courtland, 1s & recent arrival here. W. R. Macmardo andJ. L. Depouli of Kern County are among the visitors here. General N. P. Chipman ot Red Bluft arrived here yesterday. He is at the Palace. John Poole, a ship-builder of Seattle, ar- rived here yesterday, and is at the Russ. Tom T. Lane, the superintendent of the Utica gold mine at Angels Camp, is in the City. E. F. Benson, a business man ot North Yakima, is here, accompanied by his wife. F. F. Paget, & business man of Victoria, B. C., is among the arrivals at the Occiaental. J. Wells Smith, the widely known mining men of Denver, 1s among the arrivals at the Palace. R. J. Meybell, a wealthy business man of St. Paul, is at the Grand, accompanied by Mrs. Maybell. Fred Cox, the millionaire banker of Sacra- mento, is visiting the City. He ishereona business trip. Major H. P. Egbert of Philadelphia, father of Horace Egbert. the local newspaper man, is here to remain a few weeks. . Soutt of St. Petersburg and Arthur Savage of Uties, N. Y., were among last night's arriy- als. They are at the Occidental. Among the arrivals here yesterday was Howara A. Harris, editor and proprietor of the Fowler Ensign. He is at the Russ. 1. N. Pevton, one of the owners of the famous Le Roi mine, reputed to be the best at Ross- 1and, B. C., was among last night's arrivals. Captain F. E. Mathieson has been appointed to eucceed Pilot Jones, who disappeared two months ago. He is the son-in-law of Jones. Lione! A. Sheldon, the ex-Governor of New Mexico, who has for some years been living at Pasadens, is among the arrivals at the Grand. Mrs. 8, L. Lee of Carson is in the City, sc- companied by her youngest son, who is con- templating a college career at Stanford Uni- versity. The Rey. Dr. Williams, who has been the pastor of Plymouth Eecond Congregationsl Church for six years, has announced that he. will resign on Mareh 1. H. F. Martin, a cattle-raiser and owner of s large ranch near Montague, Nortnern Cali- fornis, arrived here yesterday, bringing sev- eral cars of cattle for this market. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK —At the Windsor, B. A. Evans; Hoffman, R. Mitchell and G. H. Redding; Belvidere, W. O. Butler and L. Briet- myer. Harry Francis left the Windsor to sail on the steamship Campania. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. BETS—M., Stockton, Cal. The answer to N, N., this city, “Election bets,” in THE CALL of January 5 iS an answer 10 your question. For CUBA—A., Sisson, Siskiyou County, Cal. If you are anxious to enlist in the cause of Ctiba you cau obtain all the information ¥ou desire by communicating by. letter with Colonel Francis Nelson, 111}§ West Third street, Los Angeles, Cal. SNOW IN FKBRUARY—E. M. G., City. Snow fell in San Francisco on the 5th of February, 1887. In the central portion the depth was’ about 3.6 inches and in the Western Addition about seven inches. FINDING A CERTIFICATE—J. T., Oakland, Cal. If Ashould find & certificate of stock on the streetand some person not the owner of 1t should ascertain the number and other par- ticulars and then claim it as his, and receive it, that individual would be liablé to arrest and prosecution for obtaining property by means of false representations. Tes-cENT FARes—H. H. W., City. It wason the 1st of October, 1893, that the Southern Pacific Railroad Company reduced the fare petween San Francisco and Oskland to 10 cents. It wason the 5thof July preceeding that the Rosalle of the Davie opposition ferry carried passengers between the two points named for 5 cents each way. THE GERMAN BANK—S, City. The report of the Bank Commissioners for the year 1896 gives the following as the financial condition of the German Savings and Loan Society ot San Francisco at the close of business on the 31st day of Julys 1896: Resources—Bank premises, $175,03185; real estate taken for debt, $589,353¥6; United States bonds, $2 175,000: miscellaneous bonds and stoc 390; loans on real estate, $23,578, 02; loans on stocks, bonds and warrants, §816,500; money on hand. $632.750 80; checks and other cash items, $12,251 79; furniture and fixtures, $1000; expenses, §6639 09; other assets, $18 10; total, $31,236,058 01. Liabili- NEW TO-DAY. 7 75 D A VW Walffs.Ca Imparters. 3278 329 MARKET St San FRANCISCO. WH[TE SEAL (GRAND CUVEE), Cel®brated 1889 vintage, unsurpassed in quality, dryness and flavo i duced for the first time by us on the Pacific Coast. Hardeaginioy BRUT IMPERIAT, A natural dry wine. Stands pre-eminent among all Brut Champagnes. ‘We beg to announce that we have assumed the agency for the above brand shipped to this country by the famous house of N tarhe, b o MESSRS. MOET & CHANDON, EPERNAY, Proprietors of the most extensive vineyards and the largest shippers of Champagne in the world. The attention of connoisseurs is respectfully invited to these brands of fine Champagne. For sale at all leading establishments, WILLIAM WOLFF & CO., 329 Market St. tles—Capital paid in coin, 00: reserve fund, $750,000; contingent fund, $57.891 26; due deposttors, §29,174,293 99; dividénds un- paid, $12,815; State, city and county taxes not vet payable, $169.749 72; interest, $121- 308 04." Liabilities, $31,286,058 01. CAVE-DWELLERS—Philomath, Philo, Mendo- cino County, Cal. “Cave-dwellers” isa term applied in European archology to a popula tion inhabiting cartain portions of Western Europel n the palzolithic perlod of the stone age and by extension to simllar populations in other localities. The most characteristic caves have been discovered in Southern Belgium along the vailey of the river Meuse and in the valley of the Vezers of the Dordogae, in Southwestern Frauce. In 1860 much aften- tion was directed to & cave expiored uear Aurigaac, 1n Southern France, by Lartet, wno was nmong the first to define clearly the hab- its of this ancient population. In England there is the Cavern of Kent aud othersin Devonshire, and there are some in Clyde, Wales, Switzorland and Spain. “Here’s Your MuLs”’—F. M., City. The following is given as the origin of the cry «Here's your mule,” that was popular in the Confederate army during the War of the Re- bellion: In the fall of 1861, aiter the battie of Mauassas, s farmer came ome day into Beauregard’s camp near Centerville in search of astray mule. Someof the boys swore that they had seen the mule in the camp of ane other division, half a mile away, but hardly nad the old farmer started when they shouted : «“Come back, Mister; here’s your mulel” He turned to retrace his sieps. Immediately the other camp, kno: only that some fun was on toot, cried out: “Mister, they uns lyin’ to you uné. We uns have got You uns' mute’—a travesty on the dislect of thie troops from the North Carolina Mountains. As he turned in that dizection he was hailed from xtill an- other camp with *No, tney haven't; here's your mule.” Andso the whole army’ joined in and had the bewildered countryman ¢l ing his course as the cry came from qu quarter, “Here’s your mule.” The “icaught on” after the incidents of its origin were forgotten, and was everywhere rapeatd upon all sorts of occasions. ‘One thing that helped to meke it popular was that it formed the reirain of a parody on ‘‘My Maryland” satirizing the supposed disposition of some o the Maryland refugees to seek “shade” offices rather than field dut; $1,000.000 !19‘;‘7‘ CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ 1b: Townsend's.* —— e SPECTAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * ey 45 “Just thirty years ago to-day,” said the old soldier, “the top of my head was grazed by a builet.” “There isn’t much grazing there now, is there, grandpa?”’ was the comment of the youngest grandchild, and as the old gentle- man rubbed his bare poll he had to admit the correctness of the assertion.—Indianapolis Journal. Phillips’ Kock Island Excursions Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, via Rig Grande and Rock Island Railways. Throngh tourist sleeping-cars to Chicago and Boston. Man- ager and poriers accompany these excursions te Boston. For tickets. sieeping-car accommodations and furtber information, address Clinton Jonmes, General Agent Rock Isiand Rallway, 80 Monw gomery street, “an Franciseo. “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup" Has been used over fifty by millions ot mothers for their children whije Teething with pec- fect success. 1t soothesthe child, softensthe gums. allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, rezulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether ans- ing irom teeshing or other canses. For sale by drug- EIStS In every part of the worid. Be sure and as< 1or Mrs. Winsiow’s Soothing Syrup. 20¢ & bosile. ————p— ComoxADO.—Atmosphere 1s perfactly a snd mild, belng entirely free from the mist mon further north. Round-trip tickets, by stesm- ship, including fifteen days’ board ac the Hotel dal Coronado, $65: longer stay §2 50 per day. APyl 4 New Moutgomery st., &an Francisco. WITH 8 bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral (the unrivaled cough cure) and Ayer’s Almanac (the Dbest calendar), we wish you a happy New Year ki o~ dicidis “Well, my son, now that you have been ad- mitted to the bar I hope you will select a specialty. This is the age of specialization of talent and a general practice rarely leads to the top of the ladder.” *Oh, I've chosen my line already, father.” “What is 1?7 «*Alibis and expert perjury.”—Chicago Jour- 1 NEW TO-DAY. One reason why Scott’s Emulsion cures weak throats, weak lungs, makes rich blood, and strengthens puny and delicate children is be- cause all its parts are mixed in so scientific a manner that the feeblest digestion can deal with it. This experi- ence has only come by doing one thing for nearly 25 years. This means, purest in- gredents, most evenly and delicately mixed, best adapted for those whose strength has failed or whose digestion would repel an uneven pro- duct. For stle by 200 NOTICE INVITING SEALED PROPOSILS For the Purpose of Sale of Bonds of the City of San Jose. HE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF the Cliy of San Jose, having by ordinance en- titled “An ordinance providing for the issuance and sale of bonds of the City of San Jose.” ete., passed on tne 21st day of December, 1896, and aporoved on the 23d day of December, 1896, ordained that there shouid be issued by said city of San Jose six hundred hign school bullding bonds, of the der.omluation of $125 each. aud four bundred sewer bonds of the denomination of $100 each, both classes of bonds to bear Interest at the Tate of 314 yer cent ber aunum, payable semi- annually, and by said ordinance authorized aud directed the Clty Clerk of sald city togive notice luviting proposals for the sale of said bouds, now therefore Public notice Is hereby given that the Clty of San Jose intends to issueone thousand bonds aforesaid, 80G that sealed proposals will be received at the office of said City Clerk. at the City Hal in San Jose, Catifornia, until the hour of eight o'clook ., on the eighth day of February, 1897 (at which time, or as soou (hereafter as said Mayor and Common Council shall duly convene, said bids will be opened), for the purchase of the whoie or any part of said high school building and sewer bonds, or either_tnereof. Sald bonds are to bear date June 1, 1897, and the intercst thereon to be pald semi-apnually on the first day <f December @nd the first day of June of each- year thereafter, both principal and luterest payable In goid coln or Iawfal money of the United States ‘Satd hizh school bullding bonds shall be num- bered consecutively from one to six hundred, both inclusive, and be divided into forty series, num- bered consecutively irom One 1o forty, both i clusive, each series consisting of fifteea bonds; the first series is 10 Include those bonds which ars numbered from one to_fifteen, both iuclusive, and all dru s at andge " ench succeeding series Is (o inciude the fifteen bonds numbered consecutively after those in- cluded in the next preceding series. Said sewer bonds shall be numbered consecu- tively from one to four hundred, both isclusive, and b- divided into foriy series numbered ron- secutively from one to forty, both inciusive each series consisting of ten bonds; Lhe first series is to Inciude those bonds which are numbered from one to ten, both Inclusive, and each succeeding series Is to Include the ten bonds numbered con- secutively after those Included in the next pre- ceding serles. The first series of said high school bullding bonds and said sewer bonds sh.ll be made payable on the first day of June, 1898, and oune of the re- mwaining series is to be made payable on the firsy day of June in eagh succeeding ca endar year thereafier, until and inciuding the ye.r 1937, Said bonds are to be made payatle to Lh- order of the purchase: or payee by name, and to each of said bonds there 15 10 be attached iterest-hoatlng ©oupons, double in number to the HUMbEr of yenrs ‘Whicn such bond has to run before its maturity. Proposals must state the price offer ed, the descrip- tion of the bonds desired, and . be aceampanied by certified chieck 0n some responsivle Bank. pac, able to the order of the Mayorof said City, for af least ten per cent of the amount. bid, said check to be returned to bidder in case the bid is not ac- céyted. The purchase money for said bonds shail be paid in gold coin of the United >tates within ninety days aiter notice of acceptance. The righs toaccept any or all bids and 1o rej-ct any ol Dids, o porions ot bids; e hereby sxpraasy so- . W. COOK, ) ‘Dated January 24, 1867, " OO~ Oy Clerk.