The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 3, 1897, Page 6

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(- - - ‘WEDN -SDAY RCH 3, 1897 During the week ending Sat- urday last THE CALL published 4429 of advertisements, which is 8 1. 8 inches more than was published by any other San Francisco newspaper during the same time. inches The last day of Cleveland. M¢Kinley is the man for us all. We are about to inaugurate new things. Rain or shine, to-morrow will be a bright day for the country. Tt1s a stre thing the inaugural address will.be full of cheer for the people. There are no longer any speculations | them assoon as they take the witn about the tariff. as a sure thing. he Ezaminer | Influence Their Votes.” by the Ezamner. THE LEGISLATIVE INVESTIGATION. With a degree of fear which could be born only of conscious guilt and with a cunning inseparable from natural cowardice the Eraminer is now endeavoring to sneak away from the charges of bribery which it made against the members of the Legislature last week, and is seeking to confuse the issue in such a way as to avoid having to swallow the poison of its own slanders. Last week in big headlines the Examiner announced to the world “Bribery ir Aid of Thievery—Thousands of Dollars Corruptly Paid Members of the Legislature to The legislators met the charge boidly. and the Assembly a committee was appointed to investigate the statements made Now, however, the Examiner slinks already like a whipped cur, and in both the Senate instead of offering the evidence on which it based the statements whined out yester- of bribery would be hard to get.” the charge made by the Ezaminer. the two committees are simple. defauit of ne who have made the charges of bribery. they are to be tried. charges made. the attack upon the legislators. charges against so many men. | {hat only a few men are involved. There is no need for a dragnet investigation. They are the Eraminer correspondent and the Examiner manager. These are the men who either have had some reason for thelr charges or else have been guilty of malicious lying. These are the men who arc accused at the bar of public opinion. stand as defendants before the legislative committee: day the coward’s plea that the inquiry ‘‘involves only few men,”” and that “'evidence The people will not be misled by this sneak of the coward and the liar. The charge which the committees of the two houses have been appointed to investigate is That which is to be discovered is the evidence on which the correspondent of the Examiner at Sacramento based his charge and the authority on which the Long Gresn manager in this City published it. The duties of They have only to send for the correspondent and for the manager of the Ezaminer and ask them whether they had any reason at all for their assertions, or whether thestatements were simply a part and parcel of the fakes) the lies, the scandals and the obscenities which the Eraminer habitually publishes in The culprits in the case are known. These are the men These are the men who are to It is by their own testimony If they can show any cause for their statements then it will be time to inquire into that cause and see how far it furnished a valid ground for the If they can show no cause then they are to be once more branded as | liars, slanderers, subsidy seekers and defamers of honest men. The legislative committees should siick to the point. They should not permit these rascals, however cunning they may be, to sneak away from the charge they have made. They should not be permitted to erawl into ary hole however small to escape the punishment they merit. They should be held to answer for an offense which they committed of their own will, meanly and maliciously. rack until they have justified themselves, or else have been so exposed to public scorn They shiould be kept on the that the witness-stand will be for them a pillory in which they will be lashed until they suffer the torture of & public exposure of their lying. It should be easy for the Ezaminer to show what cause, if any it had, for making It should be easy for the correspondent and the man- ager to explain why they first made the charge wholesale, declaring that “thou- | sands of dollars hiad been corruptly paid membersof the Legislature,” and then asserted yesterday that only ‘'a few men” were involved in the charge. Itshould be easy for them to explain why, if only a few men were involved, they first made It should be easy for them to explain how they know 1t should be easy for them to explain how they | know that only a few members are involved without knowing who these members are. There1s no resson whatever for making a long 1nvestigation of these charges. | There is no reason wh eek for something of which th the Legislature shoald be kept in session for many days to re is 10 evidence forthcoming. send direct for Long Green Lawrence and his correspondent at Sacramento and ask If the committee will | them to give the authoriiy on which they made their charges the whole issue can be | speedily settled. If they had any facts on which to base their charges they can give tand. Everybody recognizes it | maqe evident as soon as they leave the witness-stand. The business therefore is as If they had none, that much can be simple as any that can be conceived. It requires no more than that the culprits fast crawling into a |should be brought to the bar, exposed to the public, given a chance to make such hole ‘on the bribery charge, and a very | defense as they have, and in default of any valid defense branded as liars and dis- small hole at that. With & good President, a good Cabinet, a good Congress and a good season, we are | certain of good times. nate did a great deal of work As the & on Sunday said to have given the country a rest. When work on the Federal building is begiin we shall see the fake organ turn round and pretend it was always in favor of it. The true friends of Iabor are those who romote public improvements, and that is whnat THE CALL has done, is doing and will continue to a. $82,000,000 out” of the tobacco monopoly, and the people of tie country who are n up to snuff have to smoke for it. The Legislature snould remember that the way to fit the punishment to the crime in the case of a slandarer is to make him swallow the poison of his own lies. The investigation into the charges of bribery made by the Ezaminer against the Legislature will disclose nothing widely different from the Li Yung Yuen dispatch. | with very little talk it may be | | | | missed from court. THE LAST DAY. ‘This is the last day of the Cleveland administration, and as such is the only day of that administration which will be completely satisfactory to Whatever view future gener can be no question of the judgment vro- | for jt desires a Men | of o Department of Mines and Mining. nounced upon it by contemporaries. of all parties and the peopls well nigh universally condemn it. With the excep- | tion of a few men who constitute a clique If the proposal to appoint a Secretary of | Commerce and Industry is carried out there witl be more Cabinet pudding to tribute. Itisnot yet too late to get a mention. Tt is said that several State Legislatures are quieily discussing the advisability of appointing special committees to go to | Carson to investigate the operation of the prize-fight law. Parkhurst is said to be suffering from: cverwork, and the eagerness with h the people of New York aavise him to take a rest implies a strong desire to have one themselves. Cleveland advocated Democracy and de- moraiized it, free trade and destroved it, the gold standard and blighted it. Healso advocated the retirement of greenbacks, and tkat policy died before it could be bern. 1t is said Senator Cameron would like to be Embassador to Russia, not that he cares hing for the Russians, but his father was ‘once Minister to that country, and Don desires to make as good a record as the'old man. If Long Green has any proof of his charges against legislators it will be easy for him to state the facts. If he hasn’t, it will be easy to expose the lies. An in- vestigation of Long Green need not be long and it need not be ereen, Don’t forget that » mass-meeting to pro- mote the speedy construction of work on the Federal building is to be held in this City to-morrow. It will be San Fran- ¢isco’s inauguration of a new administra- tion and should be largely attended. In making the investigation of the charves of bribery, the legisiative com- mittees should require the Eraminer to explain why it first made the char-es wholesale and afterward said only a few men are involved. It should be further required to explain how it knows that only a jew men are involved. The New York Sun recently stated there are many millionaires in that city whose wealth is wholly unknown to the public, and it now appears the same is true of other cities, The executors of the estate of a man in Washington nave applied for permission to make an amended inventory because in their first report they over- looked $3,000,000 of United Statds bonds. It was not known even to the friends of the deceased that he was so rich. . Last week the Ezaminer in flashy head- lines announced to the world, “Bribery in gid of thievery; thousands of dollars cor- ruptly paid members of the L:gislature to influence their votes.” Yesterday it whined editorially *“‘Evidence of bribery is proverbially hard to get.” It pleaded that il things were probed to the bottom some evidence might be found, but did not suggest that it bad aay of its own to offer, Itisasmall hole the Ezaminer is “ crawling into, but it may do for a reptile. confined almost to New York City, there is hardiy a citizen of the Union who ap- proves the policy pursued by Mr. Cleve- t has been maintained. second term has been a period of depres- sion and disaster. Every industry and every trade has been injuriously affected, | and “every intelligent siudent of eveats | bas perceiyed that the greater part of ail these injuries has been duo to the falsa theories and dogmatic course of the Presi- dent. with the people, or with the aspirations of the Republic, Mr. Cleveland has of late prided himself upon his isolation and what he is pleased to consider his freedom from popular influences. During the war he shared none of the patriotic sentiments of the people, nor did he care enough for the preservation of the Union to join the armies which fought to susiain it. Even fellow-citizens and was indifferent 10 Na- tional emergencies. These defects of hls youth have increased with age untilnow he has become & man almost colossal in his egotism, and so seli-complacent that he prides himself on his lack of sympathy with his country and his fellow-citizens. To these personal characteristics of the President we must attribute most of the disasters which have befallen the country during his administration. It was not that he did not see that help was needed during the panic which foilowed his in- auguration, but that he scorned to give it. He found delight in showing his indiffer- ence to popular clamor, and was so far consistent in his course that he ignored his own party as well as the people gener- aily. other portion of the people, and such was the effect of his course that he reduced the Democratic orgenization which bad been successful in electing bhim to the Presi- dency to such a state of demoralization that to-day it hardly exists as a potent factor in the politics of the country. To-morrow will be the glad day of the year 1o Republicans and to the peopie generally, because it wili be the day of the ineuguration of McKinley; but to Democracy the gladnes- of the day will consist in the fact that it is to bs the last of Cleveland. The men who voted for him will be best pleased to see him ratire from offics under circumstances which are tantamount to his retirement from poli- tics. During his administration he has injured every cause which he advocated. He has ruined the free-trade propaganda and blighted the hopes of those who de- | sire to see the retirement of greenbacks. | To every cause which looked to him for leadership he has proved the worst of enemies, and even among his former friends there will be rejoicing to-day, be- cause it 13 the last of Cleveland and of Clevelandism. 5 A Boston reformer wisnes a tax law by which each individual shouid fix for him- self the amount of property he is to be taxed on. When he dies ail the prop:rty on which he has paid taxes sball go ac- cording to his will or to his bLeirs-at-law, but all property found in his estate over and above the value on which he paid taxes shall go to the State. The proposal is ingenious, but there might be as many ways of beating it as there is of beating a siot-machine. Boston pamed one of her schro's in honor of Gilbert Stuart, the artist, and the artists of the city in recognition of the compliment to the profession presented the school with a number of fine paintings, Some of these Boston ideas are quite com- mendable. The whold ot yeass ot Mx Disvelstia's | o5 , b pastment of i08TsiEbrE A d Mani in those times he stood aloof from his | He made himself, if possible, more | | obnoxious to Democracy than to any | CABINET EXTENSION. There is a movement in the East, ever growing stronger and getting into more | practical shape, for the establishment of a the people. | ations may | the interests of commerce and manufac- take of Mr. Cleveland’s second term, there | new Cabinet department to be devoted to tures. ‘The West should approve of this, nd needs the establizhment The two movements shoula join forces and make a united effort to overcome that prejudiced conservatism which is the only barrier in the wav of the accomplishment of these purposes, which, if executed, | would greatly facilitate the progress of The French Government last year made | land, or commends the manner in which | prosperity. The bill proyiding for the establishment factures was introduced into the Senate last spring by Senator Frye, and it now rests with the Senate Committee on Com- merce. It is proposed to gather into a single department all the bureaus which !are directly concerned with the trade and industries of the country. The consniar Bern without any facalty of sympathy | *°T¥ice and Bureau of Siatistics would be transferred from the Department of State to the new department, as would likewise many bureaus from the Treasury Depart- ment. It i< argued that the consular ser- vice should have its scope extended along lines of usefulness not practicable undar the State Department, whose office is diplomatic rather than commercial. Prom- ises to support the measure have been made by a large number of the members of both houses. All the great countries of Europe have separate departments whose duty it is to promote the interests of commerce and industry. The president of the Board of Trade in England Is a Cabinet Minister, and corresponding positions are provided in the principal colonies. Even Persia has a Minister of Commerce. When we con- sider that we bave led the world in in- dustrial progress during the last twenty- five years it seems absurd to assert that we do not need, or cannot afford, a Secre- tary of Commerce and Manufactures, Our mining interests have also grown to im- mense proportions, and they should re- ceive such National attention as woula require the whole time of a Cabinet officer, who would draw to a center of organized efficiency in his department all the scat. tered interests of mining States and Terri- tories. THE OMAHA EXPOSITION. The delegation from Omaha which has come to California for the purpose of promoting the interests of the Trans-Mississippi Expos tion will find public opinion in California predis- posed in their favor. As a rule the people of California are inclined to rive support to industrial expositions of all kinds, since they tead to promote the welfare of the State by making known its products; but in the Omaha exposition they take more than ordinary interest be- cause of its location. Whatsoever is cal- culated to advance the weifare ol the trans-Mississippi region of the United States finds in California a prompt and willing champion. The proposed exposition promises to be one of the most notable ever held in this country. It is in the hands of men of energy, sagacity and competent business ability. It is backed by one of the most progressive cities 1n the Union and is as- sured of sufficient capital to carry it to success. It will have the active aid of Chicago and 8t. Louis, prompted by the generous rivalry of those two cities for supremacy in the Western market. Its successful accomplishment of good results is therefore assured, and California will be engaging in no hazardousenterprise if she takes part 1n it and endeavors to make a showing second to no other State in the Union. It is time that the trans-Mississippi region of the United States should make earnest efforts to attract the attention of home-seokers and men of wealth who are seeking investments for their capital. The Scuthern States have entered vigor- ously upon work of this kind and of late have become formidable rivals to the West. In the South there has been held recently a great exposition at Atlanta and already another is being prepared at Nashville for the coming summer. ‘The West must wake up if she expects to hold her own in opposition to the energies of the newly aroused South. Expositions in the Western Stateson a scale large enough to be National in their scope should be held as frequently as possible, and when- ever one is undertaken California should be prompt and liberal in giving to it en- couragement, support and assistance. PER ONAL. H. B. Block of Los Angeles is in the City. J. C. Arnold of Truckee is a late arrival here. Mrs. De Rochette-Oulle of Montreal is at the Palace. Colonel Robert Northam of Los Angeles is in the City. Everett Brown of Healdsburg 1s herefora short stay. Dr. W. D. Rodgers of Watsonville is at the Occidental. Dr. D. R. Taggert of Bakersfield s registered at the Lick. 0. H. Lamson, & mining man of Gold Hill, is at the Russ. G. M. Long, & business man of Carlisle, isa late arrival here. Philip Hirschield, s business maa of Los Angeles, is In the City. C. N. Beal of New York is at the Palace, ac- companied by his family. L. Collins, a business man of Los Angeles, is & guest at the Cosmopolitan. George A. Booth of Reno, Nev., arrived here yesterday and is at the Ru Ex- Superior Judge J. M. Walling of Nevada City is visiting San Francisco. F. H. Cummings of Norway, Me., is among recent arrivals at the Cosmopolitan. A. L. Patterson, Miss Patterson and Master Patterson, of St. John, N. B., are at the Palace. Captain James A. Tilton, 8 whaler of New Bedford,Mass., is on a visit here, Heis at the Russ, J. M. Henderson, & banker and extensive land-owner of Eureka, was smong yesterday’s arrivals, Mr. and Mrs. Simcock of Chicago, who are en route to Australis, are staying at the Cos- mopolitan. Charles R. Drake, one of the early ana wealthy merchants of Tombstone, Ariz., ar- rived here yesterday. Berjamin G. Lathrop, first Clerk and Re- corder of San Mateo County, is seriouslv ill at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Walter Turnbull, 2217 Van Ness avenne, About twenty persons, who are members of the Pennsylvania Railway Excarsion, arrived bere yesterday from San Jose, Santa Cruz and Monterey. They are st the Palace. Sherifl H. L. Borgwardt of Bakersfleld, who has been for some time one of the leading owners of the 5t Elmo mine at Randsburg, reported recently to have been sold for $500,- 000, leit for the south yesterday. He denies that the St. Eimo is actually sold. CALIFORNIANS :N NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 2.—At the St. Cloud, D. B. Corwin; Broadway, S. Glass; Hol- land, G. B. Sperry; Astor, R. G. Bonestell. BeYOND REACH. Iam the thing hat no man sees, Though man from old has sought, All unaware of trap or suare, Yetam I never caught. And men mny seek tiil doomsday come! All other suits forsake, Yet stiil I fly and still aety, For me they may not take, Above the highes: mountaln tops, Beneath the deepest sens, 1 still abide and there 1 nide From each and all of these. They know not even how I look, Nor what my form may be, Nor do thay + now i1 weal or woe Or virtue is in me, The name I own they cannot call, And when their steps are beat To seek me out, they vainly shout, “0h, come 10 us, Copten St. Louts Globe-Democraf ‘Vice-President Hobart's gavel has been made | from a sugar-nut tree growing om the site of the house whero Washington was born. The country will be pleased if it can pound out the era of negative legislation. A CALIFORNIA OFFICE-SEEKER. ‘Washington Post. The postoffice’ appointments are productive of lots of funny experiences. A California member received a letter Tecently from a city in his district in which the writer that 1f the Congressman did not want to be putin the position of having been turned down he would recommed the writer for postmaster, “for," the letter continued, “Mr. McKinley 1s an old friend of mine, and he will appoint me as soon as he knows I want the place.” The Congressman knew not_his corresond- entand wired to a friena for information. The answer came promptly: “Your man came here six months ago from Springfield, Onio. He is a clerk in a store.” The Congressman heaved a sigh of relief, and the recommendation has not et bees made. NEWSP. PER LEASANTRY. “You've got a very peculiar nose.” vell, that's none of your business, is 117 “No, but you seem fond of putting it in other people’s.—Truth, First cat—What is yoar opinion about boot- Jacks! Second ca fence?—Puck. “Well. Mr. Fostley, did you revenge yourself on Algy since that quarrel you had with him?"” “Yes, indeed. I ordered my man to be wude to his msn when he meets him.”—London Punch. Barber—Have you haa any experience in shaving students? Applicant (for job)—Oh, yes, sir; I always go over their iaces with the back of ihe razor and ssk them if it puils much.—Judge. Can’t you see I am on the Spectator—What keeps the case waiting so long?’ Lawyer—The jury ishung. Spectator—Well, if I'm any judge of character they deserved it.—New York Commercial Ad- veriiser. Waiter (handing Uncle Zeke the bill of fare).—Here you are, sir. Uncle Zeke—Just keep your paper, young man; Idon't keer 'bout readin’ till after din- ner.—Washington Times. PARAGRAPHS AsOUT PEOPLE. John C. Sutton of Denver spent all his money, $30,000, a few years ago in building a church in Denver, on condition that heshould be allowed to live in the tower and be em- ployed as the sexton of the church, Dr. Samuel D. Gross, the eminent Phila- delphian, will be the second physician in this country whose memory will be honored with & monument. The statue will be placed in the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution. M. Jose de Heredin’s poem In honor of the Czar and Czarina, read to them by the acade- mician at the dedication of the Alexander III bridge over the Seine in Paris, has been ex- cluded from Russia in its printed form by the censorship. Dr. Lydia Rabinovitch, a Russian Hebrew woman, has taken charge of the new bacterio- logical laboratory in the Women’s Medical College, Philadelphia. Dr. Rabinovitch pur- sued the course of study at Professor Koch's laboratory in Berlin. Archduchess Stephanie of Austria, widow of the late Crown Prince Rudolt, appeared re- cently at a court bail for the first time in eight years, the Emperor having modified the court ceremonial 5o that she takes place {m- mediately after the Empress. Mrs. Rebecea Mitchell of Idaho Falls, presi- dent of the Jdano Woman’s Christian Temper- ance Union, has been elected sheplain of the | twenty-five shingle and shake mills employ State Legislature, an unusual houor for a woman. She was largely instrumental in se- curing woman suftrage for Idabo. AROUND "HE CORRILORS. Hon, J. F. Thompson of Eureka, editor and proprietor of the Daily Humboldt Standard, has been dividing his time between San Fran- cisco and Sacramento for the past few days, incidentally visiting at Fresno and Sauta Rosa. In answer to a request for information inregard fo the resourcesand business out- 100k of Humboldt County he said: “Nature has dealt generously by Humboldt County. Noother county of the State hus greater or more vuried resources, Her chief sourcesof wealth are lumber, butter, wool, mutton, beef, fruit and fish. That county contains the finest belt of redwood timber in the State. A close estimate places the amonnt of standing red- wood timber at 30,000,000.000 feet, which at the present rate of cutting will last more than 200 years. Besides this she has immense for- ests of oak, pine, spruce, fir and laurel. The one of the bast and safest land-locked harbors on the Pacific Coast, Our ship-building indus- tryisa growing ome. With the finest ship- building pine in the world, Eureka’s two ship- yards have turned out some of the finest Vessels now found in the coastwise and foreign trade. “Last year five fine vessels were launched from Bendixsen’s shipyard, one being the magnificent new stermer Humboldt, which wiil make her first trip to Eureka ina few days. With the revival in business, which is now just beginning, we shall look for in- creased activity in the rumber trade and in- creased business in pil lines, Humboldtis a grand county, and together with the Test of this great commonwealth its destiny i se- cure. The return of prosperity, which is surely coming, will be felt in_every artery of our trade and commerce ere long. «I am glad to see the papers of San Francisco HON. JAMES F, THOMPS mills of that county have a cutting capaeity of more than 200,000,000 feet per annum, though the maximum amount hes not been sawed in recent years. “Owing to the long continued business de- pression the cutput of lumber has declined since 1892, the lowest figure being reacned in 1896 when only 120,000,000 feet, including shingles, posts and tiles were exported. Several of the larger m!ils were idle most of last year and others were running on limited time, but the prospects of a revival in that industry are now brightening. The foreign demand for redwood seems to be increasing and larger shipments 1o Australia, the Sandwich Islands and Ceniral America have been made during the past two months than for the correspond- ing months for several years past. The Vance mill, one of the largest redwood mills in the State, is now running day and night to fill orders for the Australian market. Ths Pacific | Lumber Company, which has its heacquarters in San Francisco, has completed the largest and best constructed redwood mills in the world and is running at full capacity to re- plenish its stock of lumber which was con- sumed during the construction of the new mill, the original mill being burned some two yearsago. Dolbeer and Carson operate two large mills, McKay & Co., Isaac Minor and Korbel Brothers have mills of {rom;fiity to one hundred thousand feet capacity per day, while several smaller lumber milis and an army of loggers and mill hands when the lumber trade is good. “Terminal rates on carload lots of lumber and shinges have been secured over the Southern Pacific and Northern Pacific roads to Eastern poiats, and mary carloads of fine lumber and shingles have been shipped to the Mississippi Va.ley direct during the past year. The construction of the Nicaragua canal | would open the markets of the Eastern States to our redwood and prove of incalcuiable benefit to our lumber industry. Next to redwood our dairies are the great- est sources of revenue. Last year Humboldt produced over four million pounds of butter, | most of which was sold iu San Franci-co and brought the dairymen nearly $1.000,000. Humboldt has the best soil and ciimate for dairying to be found in the world. Clover grows the year round in the valleys, and good cows, even at the present low price of butier, average from §50 to $75 worth of butter per year. Recent legisiation against the sale of imitation butter and cheese has been of great value to tne dairying industry. Farmers no longer make their own butter. Creameries, which use the latest and most approved ma- chiners and metnods, are found in every | nelghborhood 1n our velleys, thus producing the best butter and securing for Humboidt producers gilt-edge prices. The creameries here increased from one in 1889 to twenty-six in 1897, and the end 15 not yet. “The southern and eastern portions of Hum- boldt County are adapted to grezing, aud sheep and cattle irom the hills find their way to the San Francisco and other markets by nearly every steamer. Wool, lumber and ‘spuds’ were formerly the chief articles of ex- port; but the Wilson teriff bill struck a deadly blow at the wool industry. The wool men of Humboldt, who formerly hed from 16 to 36 conts a pound for their wool, and were in good circumstances, have sold their wool clips for the past four years for from 8 to 12 cents. This has ruined over balf of them, and the wool industry hes been nearly destroyed. Many large wool ranches have been soid by the Sheriff, and but few remain unincumbered. With the restoration of a reasonabie tanff on wool, our grazing lanas will become valuable, and wool will again be one of our staple pro- ductions. We are hoping that the exira ses- sion of Congress will give us such a ta iff, and also give us protection on California prunes, raisins, oranges, lemons and other iruits. “Our satmon fisheries, especially those on Fel River, are & source of considerable revenue, and with a new hatchery on that stream (o supply the river with young fish the run of salmon wili increase and our fisheries will be greatly mcreased in value. Wo have two Gov- ernment hatcherles already. One near Hoopa and che other on the north fork of Mad Riverunder control of Captain Dougherty, which are doing great good in stocking our streams with salmon, trout and other food fish, Senator Gillette and our representatives in the Assembly have been making a vigorous fight in the Legislature to o amend our fish- inglaws as to give the fishermen a chance to take salmon in October,and they will probably get half of that month into the open season. The salmon run comes later in Humboldt than it does in the Sacramento, and this change in the law is needed by oursalmon fish- eries. Once let the hatcheries supply young fish for Eel River and in a few years we shall ship hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of that most excelient fish to market. “Humboldt apples, like Humboldt wool. are the best produced in the State. The codlin moth and other insect pests have not reached our orchards, and whiie we cannot compete with some sections ot Californis in apricots, pears, grapes and citrus fruits, we can produce the best apples and as good prunes and peachés as any county in the State. Nature irrigates our hills and valleys. There is not an irrigation ditch in the county, and we need nonme. Witnsuch a soil and climate Hum- bold County should—and will—become an in- dustrial empire. It is a safe place 10 invest capital. The expenditure of over $1,000,000 on the entrance to our harbor has greatly im- proved the bar and made it safe to enter or leave our wharves at all stages of the tide. When the work is completed we shall have paying some attention to Humboldt. With their assistance we hope at some future day tosecure rallway connection with this City. Not many years ago a Chroncle writer located Eureka in Oregon. I think that paper would not make such a mistake now. THE CALL has paid much attention to Eureka and Hum- boldt County during the past two years, and we fully appreciate it, as will be seen by its increased circulation among our people. Eureka is larger than Santa Rosa, and repre- sents much weaith and industry. Arcata, Ferndale, Fortuna, Rohnerville, Scotia, Blue Lake, Hydesville and Rio Dell, besides a score of other fiourishing towns and villages, fur- nish subscrivers for the new CALL, which has madeitself & welcome visitor to our homes and firesides; for it represents the new jour- nalism of the reputable sort, and gives us the news in attractive and readable form. Ido not say this to throw bouquets at the paper. Our people consider it the cleanest and best of the San Francisco morning papers.” Letters From: the People. STATE WATER SYSTEM. Only One Rational Answer to the Hater Question. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—StR: Itis surprising that such enterprising people as Californians claim to be—a claim they de- fend at all hazerds—should not have led the wey for other States to a comprehensive solu- tion of the water question, for the reason that the impounding and use of water for irriga- tion, as well as all the other uses common to ail parts of the Union, have necessarily occu- pied public attention in this S:ate and elicited discussion for years. On the contrary, we have goue on in a haphazard way, rather more than fome other States, leaving to local private initiative and individual or corporate enterprise the ineuguration of nearly all water-supply systems yet developed in the State. It is not much to our credit, and we are paying roundly for our education and ex- perience, Privaie capitalists seem indeed to hold a perpetual frenchise on public intelligence as well as pubiic enterprise. My impression is that private capitalisis succeeded in incor- porating & provision in the new constitution of the State which seriously hampered if it does not in fact prevent public ivitiative by the State in constructing and operating pub- lic enterprises such as a State sys em of irfiga- tion and water supply by siriking at the financial department of the State govern- ment. I slso beiieve that statute laws inter- fere seriously in tne same way. While the good people s-ept the public enemy, known as priyate capitalist, who lives to explolt pab- 1 ¢ utiiities, sowed financisl tares all over the field of public enterprise. In & word, if it were possible under present conditions, with the grip which capital bas on the means of creating and controlling public seniiment, to educate the people into s larger conception of the proper method of supplying the whole State with a comprehensive water system whica would supply at the cost of service and a fraction of u cent profit, notoaly all the irrigation facilities useful to the farmer and orchurdist, the man with a five-acre tract as well and as cheaply us the man with 500 acres; butalso the toiwns, villages and munici- palities with both water, heat, light and power tnrough u uniform State water system, also practically at cost of service, I think the pub- lic would find considerabie law, and a part of it constitutional law, in the way of the move- ment should they make & move (o establish such a system. “The private caplialists, I thiuk, have siolen a march on the 100l peaple. Th y sre xwake and look ahead while the people sleep. 1 ~m led {0 record these observations because Lam greatly pleased with a suggestion mude by Mr. Taylor Rogers of this City, in &n fu- dress 10 the Governor and Legisiature of the State, proposing certain pubiic undertakings, primerily for the purpose of providing per- manent WOrk ior tne unemployed, and Sec. oudly for the general welfare, but which I fear “cannot De inaugurated because o! the legal obsiacles to which I have referred. While 1 neartily accept the three different methods of providing public employment proposed by Mr. Rogers, it seers (0 me that the entire State suould a! once respond to the tnira plan and that public sentiment must be su: y entightened to adopt it without the need 0i & singie aay’s discussion, namely, the pian to provide a Stato system of water supply. Mr. Rogers thus states it: ‘Third Plan—Sau Franeisco, Oakland, Sacra- mento end many other interior towns are in necd of water systems, either beeause they aro burdened by the present water rates or be- cause of the inferiority of the water supplied. N ture has placed the Sierra Nevadas alon the whole eastern side of California and store them with imexhaustible fnows. Have the State build impoundiig dams in the canyons &t convenient points along this mountain range and conduct thereirom the water into the cities for human use and the irtigation of the landsof the Sacramento and San Josquin Valleys, etc.. the State charging a reasonable price for the water suppiied.” By striving after brevity of statement and terseness of expression Mr. Rogers has ob- seured some of the most useiul and striking ieatures of & comprehersive State system of Wwater supply. He proposes, as the better of IWo ways for raising the means for under- taking this great and sorely needed pubiie enterprise, “that California” should issue its own scrip and make it redeemab.e 1n payment of town, city, county and State taxesand re- celvable for official salaries, etc.,” but he fails to mdda penalty for those whose intcrests would lead them to refuse it or oppose is use, By the use of scrip no interest wouid be paid on the outlay, and in due time the debt would be paid through annual taxes and the salaries of public officials. One wouid naturally think that the mere statement of such a pian tor creating a noble s¥stem of State irrigation aud the suppiy of water for the domes’ic use of the inhabiiants ofour villages, towns and cities, and for tne transmission of power, light and heat at far Cheaper rates than can be proauced in any other manner, and at the same time thereby to provide abundance of work ata moderate < for all_our unemploved, would tate, and public meet S 11 the towns and cities to urge the doption ’m ;uch asysiem by the State islature, and that ever: e sy SIALS aaf weekiy, 1ile and big, would espou §tasat once the oduse of humanity : s LS A faha: and finai_solution of the water supply problem of our State. But what do we see? The people waik about asleep. the news- papers are’ ominously silent and private c:pi- ile serenely. e e Cean Francisco W are wrar with @& privete water compa 'y, in our cus. tomary way, over water raics, and cistag about for evidences ol m_nrr':pll{)l’l m[n honesty with an abando: indicative o - low state of public mora's; eil of which is tremely degrading and tends 10°esiro eivic virtue as our corporation-ruied ¢ il possess. S.ate awnersnip will chage il it 0 publie grod. these rauk eviis [nig PR ¢ K auRy Jomssox. San Francisco, March 2, 1897. i i S s LY ANSWERS 10 CU.RESPONDENT WesLtey Lewmss—J. H. L, Clty. Wesley Lewis, caarged with an assault on Flor Reddy, is out on bail rate of wa arouse the be ne.d in & immediate a dis- ALASKA BOUNDARY ComuissioN—A. K. D City. The Alaska Boundary Commission. ior. the United States was named by Presiden: Harrison on the 18th day of Apri!, 1892, ExcusE Crmes—H. A. H., City. According to Whitaker's Almaneck for the current ear the five larges; cities of the Unitd K of Great Britain, according to population, 4.421.055; Giasgow, 70: pool, Manchester, 529, mingham 501,241 THE AMERICAN NAVY—E. E. §, Sutter Creck, Amador County, Cal. According to the ite:t report of the chief of the l;‘urmm of Navigs. 1 rs that more than 72 perc Hrentia d men of the United Siates na American citizens and that more than cent of the apprentice boys re A born. ANTWERP — } B., Jamestown, Tuolu County, Cal. In Antwerp as. well as in parts of Belgium, thero aro dog carts usec togetherin the milk trade and the pedalin; mussels and light farm products. Gener two dogs are hifched to a cart, but occasion a woman and a dog may be séen side by sid drawing a small car HEIGHT OF BUILDINGS— . G., City. The build- ing being erected atthe cornerof Thi:d and Market streets for Claus Epreceis height of 300 feet to the top of the dom height of the Mills buflding is 150 fee Crocker building is 167 feet; the Cl building to the top of the tower, City Hall to the topof the dome, the State Capitol at Sacramento fr 3 tion o Tenth and M streets to the toy Dball, 240 fcet; Masonic Tempie in Chicag 265 Teet; electric tower in San Jose, 198 fec American Tract Society's building S York, twenty-three stories, 306 feet. KINDERGARTEN—A. 8., Cit, garien established in this City unde auspices of the Golden Gate Kinderg Asscetation, of which the late Mrs, Sarah B Cooper was ' president, was the one known the Jackson-street kindergarten, which w opened at 116 Jnckson sireetand subsequent- 1y removed to 1233 Pacific stregt. As 10t first child in the Golden Gate Kind one of the officers of the associatio been asked wno it was sal hoodlum tendency has boy we call ‘the first child,” the one we spea of as “Jimmy, th hoodium of the Barbary Coast,’ that as he is now a struggling young Jawyer Mrs. Cooper was careful not to reveal yet his identits. ‘Jimmy’ himself being young says he would just as soon re gelf, as he has made s succsss of it while we feel that we ought towait if possibl. for him 10 do it.” SALT roast pecan & almond ———— FPECTAL information datly to manufacturary, bustness houses and public men by the Prasy Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * ——————— Berweex Townsend’s Glace Fruit—grown and prepared in and all others, comparison is real 1b. in elegant fire-eiched bxs. Try them. Palace Hotel bidg.* Bhiaioi g o Thomas Sexton, who recently resigned his seat in the House of Commous, is of the op ion that the Irish party “must have batter dis- cipline before anything worth laboring for can be obtained from the House of Commons 2v61 for the most palpable grievances of Ireland.” Excursion Rates to Washington. For the benefit of 1hose desiring (o witness the fnauguration of the next President of the United States the Baitimore and Ohio Railrosd will setl excursion tickets at one fare for (he roumd trip from all points on its linés in Ohlo, Indisna sad Illinols. Tickets will be sold March 1; 2 and.3, valld for return until March 8. Similar tickets via B. and O. R. R. will be s0ld by all the rallroads throughout the West. In addition to being the shortest and most direct line to Washington the * B. and O. passes through a region of greater scenio magnificence and historic interest than anydn all, America. Passengers aiso have the option of tra e'fng via Akron and Pitisburg or via Bellaire and Grafton either going or returning. The through trains of the B. and O. are vestibuled throughout, equipped with Pullman sleepers and the dining-. car service is unsurpassed. Information in detail will be cheerfully furnished upon application’ by L S. Allen, assistant general.passenger ageat, £ and 0. R. R., Grand Central sta:ion, Chicagd. ————— “The Overland Limited”’—Only Three and a Half Days to Chicago. .~ The Unfon Pacific is the only Itne runniag Pull- man double drawing-room abd tourist slespery and dining-cars, San_Franeisco to Chicago: without change. Buffet, smoking and library.cars, Ogden to Chicago. Tickets and sieeping-car reser- vations at 1 Montgomery st. D. W. Hitclicock, General Agent, £an Fraucisco. —_———— 3 “Mrs, Winglow's Soothing Syrup" Has been used over fitiy years by millions of mothers for their children whi.e Teetbing with pars fect success. It scoihesthe child, softens he gudns, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, rezulates :he Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarricas, whether aris- ig irom tee-hing or other causes. i or sale by drug £18ta n every part of the worid. Be sure and asc for Drs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 20¢ & botila Pty $ ComONADO.—Atmosphere Is perfactls dry, soff #nd mild. being entirely free from the mists com: mon further north. Round-trip tickets. by steam ship, including Siteen dsys’ board at ihe Hosel Jol Coronado, $65; lonzer stay $2 50 per dsy. APPLY 4 New Moutgomery st., Sun Francisco. make your hair lifeless and gray with PARKER'S HATR BALSAM. HINDERCORNS, the best cure for corns, 15 ots. A BN FOR BRONCHIAL AND ASTHMATIC COMPLAINTS, «Brown's Bronchial Troches” have remarkable curative properties. Sold onlyin boxes. . e Sl No beauty ever l0oks her best : Tnless, with Ayer’s Hair Vigor dressed, Her bair. chief g ory Is confessed. e BurNETT'S Corn nigomery st. 25¢! William Black, the novelist, in his recent remlniscences of Carlyle, reports him ass ing, “There's that man Disrae!i. They tell mo ha is 2 good spesker. PerhepsIdo vot kuow what & good spesker is. But I read a speech of his that he delivered in Glasgow a year or two ago, and it appeared to me the greatest jargon of nonsense that ever got into any poor creature’s head.” KNEW TO-DAY. Quackery is always discov- ering remedies which will act upon the germs of disease directly and kill them. But no discovery has ever yet been approved by doctors - which will cure consump- tion that way. Germs can only be killed by making the body strong enough to over: come. them, and the early use of such a remedy .ag Scott’s Emulsion is one off the helps. In the daily warl fare man keeps up, he wins best, who is provided with the needed strength, such as Scott’s Emulsion supplics. wonld - ¥