The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 14, 1897, Page 6

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FOLT THE CALL’ SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyou going 10 the country ona_vacation n vo.1t is no trouble fcr us to forward THE CALL to | your address. miss it Business Oftice NO Do not let it miss you for you will Orders given to the carrier or left at will receive prompt attention. TRA CHARGE. Fif:y cents per mouth Try Shasta this winter and let the Chil- COOL pass. Dollar wheat is in sight and now is the | time to reach for it. There is a prospect of a mining boom in Caliornia this fall that will leave the Klondike in the cold. The big silver leaders would rather be popular than Populists and are coming back to the party of prosperity. Senator Stewart has quit tacking to and fro and has spread his sails to go straight ahead with the winds of prosperity. In a tew years Daw-on will invite the pleasure-seekers of the world to come in and see her make a universal exposition of herself. California mining districts have two advantages over those of Alaska. One is, you can waik to them. The other is, you can walk back The Ottawa officials have recovered from the mining craze and have taken second thoughts, which show a normal degree of common-sense. The report that Justice F.eld is about to retire passed awav this season with an | unuscal rapidity, but perhaps it will re- | turn with the same speed. About the only diplomatic note the Sui- tan ever sends in these days to King George is a polite but urgent request for an immediate remittance. Rash adventurers who hurriea unpre- pared to Dyea have found it impossible to pave a road across the Chilcoot with good intentions. Itis too cold a country. A New York undertaker who failed in business has recently set up as a divine- healer, evidently with the intention of ruining every one else in the old trade. Leave orders to-day for THE Sunxpay CaLL and you wi'l have to-morrow ali the news of the gold fields of California and Alaska and lots of good reading besides. More gold, more wo! more wages, more comfort, more prosperity and more revenue for the Government. That 1s the way the record of the news runs in these days. Germany has begun to raise the Trans- vaal issue again, and it is not certain whether Great Britain can smooth it down with diplomacy or wili bave to hit it with a club. The Cubans have Havana so closely sur- rounded that the Spaniards cannot have a dance in the suburbs without danger of being caught in a battle and forced to sur- render. The Populist Convention in Ohio was another proof the leaders of that faction do not trust one another in politics half as much as they would trust a pig in a potato patch. The row between Austria and Bulgaria may give the Eurapean concert another hard job to attend to before it finishes with that of settling the fr acas between Greece and Turkey. Intending Kiondikers should stay over long enongh to see the pure-food exhibit at the Mechanics’ Fair and learn where to ret the best supplies for the healthy appe- tites of the frcz n north, This time it is Mr. Langtry who is to sue for divorce, and it is intimated the affair will re something of a surprise party for the Prince of Wales and other .gay digni- taries of London society. Only a short time ago Nicola Tesla, ac- eording to his own story, dev sed a ma- chine by which he electriied the whole globe and, perhaps, that is what caused all these new gold croppings. Itisadull day now that does not bring areport of a new gold discovery, and be- fore the season is over we may hear that some of the abandoned farms in New Euogland are turning up with pay gravel. The Republican campaign in Ohio will be a walkover, but it will not be a free- and-easy go-as-you-please. The voters are getting into ranks and will make it a tri- umphal march for protection and good times. —— It ‘s announced that an evacuation of Cuba by the Spaniards would be followed immediately by an uprising of the Car- lists at home, so it seems the Government would gain nothinr by the change and might as well keep the army where it is and leave the consequences to the law of chance. The only sensible move the Ottawa Goy- ernment has thus far made in regard to the mining industry on tne Yukon is the decision to establish a warehouse for the safe storage of gold. This will be a benefit to the miners in many ways, and will materially aid them not only in guarding their treasure but in getting it excianged dox coin. A CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP. With this issue THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL changes hands, its ownership having been transferred to Mr. John D. Spreckels, who becomes its proprietor to-day. The high standard of excellence which THE CALL has achieved during the past two and a half years as the cham- pion of morality, decency and public and private honesty will be maintained under its new ownership. Failing health, need of rest and the necessity of attention to other important business interests have made imperative the transfer of THE CALL to other hands. After a season spent in search of health the friends of him who res'gns the helm of THE CALL to-day may {expect acain to feel his influence in aid of all that is true and honorable in the journalism, politics and business inter- ests of the State of California. It is needless to say that the staunch Republicanism of THE CALL will be steadfastly maintained under the manage- ment of the proprietor who assumes its ownership to-day. THE BOOM IN THE MINES OF THE GOLDEN STATE The Trinity County gold strike: have diverted attention from the Klondike ais- coveries, and the fresh boom in California mines bids fair to eclipse all past excite. ments. It is now declared that geologists, familiar with Trinity County, claimed long ago that the vast treasure taken from the gravel-bed and o!d channels of Trinity River and its northern tributaries came from a real fountain-head of mineral wealth, located at the head of Coffes Creek and along the natural divide of Trinity and Siskiyou moundins, and also near confirm those views. the bead of Salmon River. Tne wires daily bring accounts of wonderful Recent events new finds in the region whence the Graves brothers gathered their fortune in the yellow metal. Paying claims are numerous, and an army of prospectors is filing into the new El Dorado. The Trinity mines are only 300 miles from San Francisco. Of this distance 230 miles are covered by rail, between this City and Redding, whence a daily stage runs to French Gulch, twenty miles, and from the latter point a tri-weekly stage proceeds thirty-five miles to Trinity Center. and thence by trail to the gravel-beds of Ccffee Creek. The balance of the route is by wagon to Carrville, The facilities of travel are being rapidly improved, and two new stage companies are being organized to meet the influx of fortune-seekers. While our attention for the moment is particularly directed to Trinity County, on account of the uncovering there of marvelously rich pocikets of gold, we may ex- pect to hear of strites as important in various other sections of California at any time. it is a noteworthy circumstance that before any thought was given to Coffee Creek g:avel, and even during the Yukon excitement, powerful syndicates from abroad were seeking investment in our mines, which are deemed the most vrofitable and at the same time the most promising in the known world. Frank L. Gardner, one of the greatest mining engineers of the day, and who acted as adviser to the late Barney Barnato, has, it is said, within the past week bzen examining mines on the mother lode and in Placer County. It is probable that when the result of his mission in this State is unfolded it will be found that the money kings of London and Paris appreciate the inexhaustible mineral re. sources of California to such an extent as 1o clioose investment here, where returns are sure and large, 1n preference to risking their millions in schemes loadea with South African uncertainty. From one end of California to the other there are opportunities without number for miners. The State has been prospected only in spots, and, without the shadow of u doubt, there are roval fortunes to be gleaned in thousands of places which have never known piek or shovel or even the footprints of gold-seekers. As THE CALL ob- served a few days ago, the mine developing of this State has only just began, despite its unequaled record as a gold-producer for the last fifty years. Our gold mines are in regions where thers is plenty of everything to make life worth living, not the least important feature being our matchless climate. California will be producing gold by the bucketful, as she is do ngin Trinity County to-day, when the Klondike excite- ment has gone to join the Frazer River craze in the history of things that were and are not. WORK ON THE OHARTER. The promptness with which the com- mittees on the charter are making their reports gives encouragement to the hope that the preliminary work of that under- taking will be speedily done. Some of the more important features of the proposed form «f municipal government have been already dealt with, and it is not likely that the comm ttees which have notyet made reports will delay much longer. Such reports as have been made con- firm the popular seutiment in favor of having alternative propositions on a!l dis- puted points submitted to the vote of the peopie. It is clear that the new govern- ment wil in many respects be radically different from that which now exists, and as there 1s no agreement among c:tizens as to the extent or character of the pro- posed changes the only way to provide a reasonable assurance of the adoption of the new charter by the people is to permit them to pronounce judgment no: only upon the charter as a whole, but upon its wmore salient and important features separately. The committee of public improvements, of which Irving M. Scott is chairman, has recommended the creation of a board of public works, to consist of three commis- sioners to be appointed by the Mayor to taks charge of all work of sewers, streets, parks, bridges, wharves, eic. The com- | mittee on public utilities, of which George K. Fitch is chairman, has reported rules and regunlations under which the people can either establish telegraphs, tele- phones, railways, water works, lizhting plants, etc., or purchase those which now exist so as to bringz these necassaries of civie life under municipal control. The committes on harbors and wharves, of whick Hugh Craig is chairman, recom- mends the transference to the Clty of the management and control of the wharves, water front and harbor property. These reports shadow forth the nature of the charter, which is likely to be reccm- mended by the Committee of One Hun- dred. It wili be seen that many issues of importance will be involved in the work. It is impossible that there shou!d bea general agreement upon them, even after they have been debated by the full com- mittee and put into a form satisfactory to a majority of tbat body. The only way out of the danger of having the whole charter rejected seems therefore to be by | the path of submitting many, if not all, of the controverted changes to the decision of the whole body of citizens. Whatever may be the result of the new attempt to obtain municipal reform by a reconsiruction of the caarter, it has cer- tainly begun under fair auspices, aund gives promise which encourages the faith of the sanguine. The work is notonly pushed ahead rapid!y, but it is being well done. Ii the ccmamittee can avoid the rocks on which their predecessors went to wreck, we may have our new charter ready to submit to the Legislature at 1ts next session, and see before us a means whereby San Francisco will be able to take advan- tage of the new era of prosperity and plece herself in the front rank of the pro- gressive cities ot the Union. By and by we shall be receiying the re- turning Klondikers and listening to their little tales of woe. SITS DOWN TO THE FEAST. The announcement that Senator Stew- art ot Nevada has ceased to follow the Bryan banner and has joined the ranks of the commercial optimists is a gratify- ing piece of news. The Senator advises his friends in the West to fall in line witn the forces of prosperity and progress and receive their due share of the rewzrd. That is very sensible advice. Better times bave come to the country in spite of the predictions of those agitators who maintained that only through the agency ol the free and unlimited coinage of silver would an improvement in conditions be possible. Whether a nian agrees with the volicy of the administration or not he cannot but admit that the country is in a better position In every imaginable way than has been the case at any time since a Democratic Congress tore down the M- Kinley taniff. During the last.campaign we were told by Mr. Bryan and his friends that the election of Mr. McKinley would drive things from bad to worse. Every- body knows better now, although there exist a few pessimistic souls who still per- sist in makin g evil furebodings. As soon as the result of last November’s election became known the spirit of con- fidence settled again upon the iand. Busi- ness became firmer immediately. The farmers took couraze anew. The people seemed 1o be assured of a prosperous era approaching. Now the land is once more aglow beneath the rays of fortune’s sun. The farmer has found out that his success depends not on silver but on wheat. The big crops and the big prices are fill- ing his coffers, and every town and bamlet from Maine to the Pacific feels the magic influence of the inflow of wealth and the increasing circulation ot money. Business security and big crons are a combination whic i cannot be outdene. Every line ot trade shares the benefit. In the face of all these golden realities, it is palpably vain and foolish to cry out that all this is mereiy temporary and that disasters of some kind are bound to over- take us all some time or other. Let every- body enjoy the feast that is spread before him and thank Provid:nce for the pleni- tude. Nobody surely should refuse to partake of the banquet becau: forsooth, it is not given under free-siiver auspices. Senator Stewart has seated himself at the table with the rest of the people who know how to appreciate and enjoy pros- perity. It doesn’t matter who brings it 20 long as it is here. A DEMORALIZED FACTION, The proceedings of the Popnlist conven- tion in Ohio were bad, but the aftermsth is worse. Even the open row which fol- lowed the charge on the floor that certain delegates had been bribed was not so dis- gracetul as the confessions made by some of them before the investization commit- tee that they haa accepted money given them as they alleged to vote for a straight ticket instead of fusion with the Democrats. The testimony of the confessing wit- nesses is not of sufficient force to injure any one except themselves. They as- serted they had received money from Major Dick, a Republican politician, but claimed they accepted it for the sole pur: pose of exposing the campaizn methods of the Republican leaders. The amount received ty each, according to their stories, was $25. The sum is not large, and if that is all that the fusion leaders bring in the marker the faction bas slumped down the toboggan slide into the mud. The evidence given by these men did not heve much effect on those who neard 1. The reyort of the committee of inves- tigation, after reviewing the charges and the evidence, conciuies by saying: “Tne evidenca proved bevond a doubt that the whole proceeding was but an attempt on their part to bring dissensions into the convention for the purpose of hi ‘ing their motives of the disruption of the People’s party, barause they faiied to control the convant on in the interests of fusion.” Thereis no reason for questioning the essential soundness of the conclusions of the committee, It 1s not the middle-of- the-road Populists who were scorched in the furnace of the investigition, but the fusion tr cksters who wished to betray the party into the hands of the Democrats, The men who laid the snare were caught init. The fusionists were dumped in the ditch while the middle-of-the-road men g0 on unsmirched toward that peculiar political haven where they expect to find fiat money, Government ownership of railroads, a cessation of poverty and uni- versal bliss, The victory gained in Ohio over the desperate fusionists by the straight-out Populists is a benefit to the politics of the country. It is a defeat of trickery and fraud which will have its effect in con- firming the hopes of ti.ose who believe in honest political methods and have some regard for political principles. The fu- sionists who have so long disturbed genuine Populism are now & demoralized faction, and it is not likely they will ever recover in Ohio at any rate from the dis- grace they have brought upon themselves by their confessed fraud. A “WHQOP-UP” FOR DAWSON. Joseph Ladue, the founder of Dawson City, isa rare and radiant boomer, and his grandiloquent efforts in this respect challenge our applause and admiration. He is back in New York, where the clubs are wining and dining him to hs heart’s content, and where society is as much ex- cited over his presence as if he werea marriageable duke or marquis. He is the lon of ths hour and is playing his cards like a professional. Joseph is making hay while the sun shines. Hailed asa Klondike gold king, and reputed Lo possess bullion enough to make a Creesus green with envy, he has all New York by the ears, and he1s pour- ing into those ears a series of tales that oaght to set him up as a rival of Mark Twain. *‘Colonel” Ladue (for he should cer- tainly be accorded a more high-sounding title than plain *Mr.”) is wiliing to stake a few sacks of Klondike nuggets on the fature of Alaska and the Northwest Terri- tory, The strange and astonishing fact, however, is that he doesn’t bank on the gold finds with the remotest approach to a degree of exciusiveness. “You don’tknow Alaska alittle bit,” he says, in substance, to the open-mouthad andience of Manuattanites. *‘You think we live in snowbanks by the side of ice- bergs and have a nine months’ freezs and a three months’ thaw. Don’t you believe it. Why, ladiesand gentlemen, the hort - cultural and agricaltural advantag:s of Alaska are immeasurable—take Joe La- due’s word for it. You ought to see how luxuriantly the vegetables grow there. And the fruits—why, my dear friends, you’ll be going wild over ice-cold Alaska oranges, just the thing for your hot sum- mers. California won’t be 1n it, and we'll cut a hole in ihe Georgia watermelon trade that will silence forever the rhythm’c boasts of the Atlanta poets. *At this very season ihere is an im- mense crop—the largest on record—of the finest grades ot canned iruit on the Klon- dike, It has the genuine California flavor, too. Potatoes egrow near Dawson—yes, potatoes—and when capital pours into our paradise of the north and we can afford hothouses all the year round pota- toes will ripen there. Oh, you don’t know us. Go!d? Why, ladies and gentlemen, not gold, baut horticulture, agriculture, are going to make Alaska’s future, If anyboay doubts it tell bim Joe Ladue is your authority.” “Colonel” Ladue avows that the talk of cold weather in Alaska is all bosh, and is thinking of converting Dawson into a win- ter resort. Dawson is the city o invest in. There is only one Dawson. *Colonel” Ladue owns all the lots siill on the mar- ket there. The ‘‘colonel” contemplates establishing a university, an academy of sciences, four or five churches, a bank and a free library there nextspring. When a man once sets foot in Dawson you can’t pull him away with a team of elephants, according to Diwson’s founder. *‘Colonel’’ i Ladue withheld, for reasons of his own verhaps, the story that Andree and bis balloon are on exhibition at one of the dime museums of Daiwson and tnat his carrier pigeons all died from overloading with Klondike nuggets, which they mis- took for grain, i0 MY CYCLE. Dear other self, so sllent, swift and sure, My dumb compauion of deidgnifu days, Might taizy fingers from thv orb i rays Of steel strize music, as the gods of j0e From recd or sheil: what me.odies wouid pour On my giad e-rs:; what songs of woodlan i ways, Of sum'm r's wealth of corn, or the Sweet lays Of April's buduing green: while evermore We twain, one iving thing, flash like the light Down. the long wacks tha streteh from s.y 1o sk Thou hast thy music, 100 what time the noon Beats sultry on broad roads, when, guhering night, We drink the keen-edged air; or, darkilng, fiy "I'wixt hedzerows blackencd by a mysue moon. Spectator. FREIGHTING OVER THE SIERRAS Washington Post. “The freighting that was done over the S'erra Nevada Mountains in 1861 was on a gigantic scale,” said Senator 8 ewart of Nevada in conversation with friends al Chamberlain’s, “Five enormous wagons, taden with all sorts of wares, would be drawn over the heights by twenty-four pickeu mules, and it was a sight for men and gods to see these patient beasts pull. When they started to move at the signal of the driver they seemed endowed with human intellizence, for 1 do not believe that number of men could start off with such 8 m- ultaneous action. These mules were brought out there from Keniucky und Missoue, and were the highest in size Lever saw. Scarcely ¥ commanded a less price thin $500, and it «no uncommon thing fof them o bring $1500. Taere was paid out for freighiing by these muie teams in '61 the cum of $10,- 000,000. There is nothing in the hisiory of the world 10 mutch it."” A PROSAIC NAME, New York Times. That official of the Navy Department, who- ever he may be, who has selected thes name “Pluuger” for the first submarine vesselin our service ought to be set at some other sort of work at once. He is evidently a man of no fmagination at all, ana while he could prob- ably auait expense accounts or figure out the cousse of a projectile as well as anvbody, his doings are simply criminal when it comes to choosing titles for ships. “Plunger” is atro- cious. Itsuggests only racetrack gamblers or the part of upump, and certainly should not be fastened upon & siructure thatwid, it is hoped and believed, mark & long step in man’s conguest of th2 el Wby, even Alfred Austin would have hesitated to gives this craft RDame 50 Prosaic. 8 “THE SUNDAY CALL” In to-morrow’s CALL the third of the first-page series of articles devot 2d to the California Summer Girl will appear. This time it haprens to be the Summer Girl of the Lakes, and there is a great deal to be said avout her. It is, perheps, already known that she is different from all the other Summer Girls of the Golden State, but in just what way is a matter that has had to be studied. This has been most carefully done, and the result will appear in to-morrow’s paper. If you wish to know just how tiis caarming specimen of femininity lives and spends her time, all you have 1o do is to read aboui her in THE CalL And she s well worth reading about, for her life is an interesting one and fu 1 of all that goes to make happiness. San Francisco has for many years put forth the Union, ana numerous facis have been cited to prove it. worthy of consideration and a nuniber of them have not. claims to being the mos: cosmopolitan city in Some of these facts have been In to-morrow’s CALL there will be an article setting forth & newly discovered fact that cannot be disputed. It telis all about a certain block in the City of San Francisco where twenty different languages are spoken by the residents. This means that just that many different nationaliies of people are living in that block—are making their homes there, and 8 number of them are about to become American citizens. This article is most interesting and also contains a large amount of valuable information, Perhaps you are not aware that there are a number of prosverous farms within the limits of San Francisco. But there are, and in to-morrow’s CaLL you will learn all about them. By “farm” is meant a place where vegetables and sold to consumers, other garden *“truck” is grown and afterward Do you know that the largest deer park in the world isin California and only within a few miles of San Fraucisco? Well, it isand it is one of the most interesting and beautiful places in the State. There are plenty of deer there, 100, but you may not shoot them unless you are a member of the big club thet owns the land. atany time ana do pretty much as you pleas However, youare at liberty to visit this place Perhaps you cannot find time to visit it, and in that case you will have to read to-morrow’s CALL, where vou will find out all about it. There will also be a story in to-morrow’s CaALL deseribing a trip beneath a city in & boat, The city is not very far from here, and you are at liberty to make the trip yourself if you like, but most likely you will find it pleasanter to contains a great deal of valuable information o A queer rac: of peop'e, whose women wear all about them in to-morrow’s CALL. Portugal is generally conceded to be on the led up to it are not well known. them in detail and showing just what must changes are made at once. There will be also an article relating to the This troublesome microbe is of the greatest int about it. There will also be another article relating to the famous Burrows letters that were found | country, here only a short time ago. An interesting buf read about it. The article is very graphic, and fanature that is not usual. mustaches, has been lately discovered. Learn verge of a revolution, but the causes that have In lo-morrow’s CALL there will be an article dealing with inevitably result unless some very necessary latest discoveries about the germ of malaria. erest to all of us and we ought to know all t humorous event is related this time. Besides all the interesting th:ngs mentioned there will be the children’s page, the book page, fashions, soclety and all the news of the day. QUEER RIG FOR A SAILBOAT. One of the greatest novelties ever seen in vented in England. It has been christened a: fold up just as the covering of an umbrella does. back, but in reality it is not so, for the mech: ing the sail is merely shifted from one side to sailing craft is the umbrella boat recently fn- n “umbrella boat” from the fact that the sails At first sight this would seem a draw- anism is the simplest possible, es when tack- 0 the other. PERSONAL. James Galbert of New Albion, Ala., 1s in town. F. A. Hinn, the Santa Cruz miilionaire, is at the Occidental. James E. Beveridge of Salt Lake arrived in the City yesterday. John Y. Smith of Pheenix, Ariz., 18 here, Mrs. Smith accompanies him. The Rev. Dr. J. Bloch of Portland, accom- panied by his two daughters, is at the Palace. Frank E'iel, a leading pusiness man of Dil- lon, Mont., arrived here yesterday. He will remain several days. Ex-Governor John H. Kinkead of Nevada and Alaska is among the arrivalsat the Palace. He came down from Nevada yesterday. Samuel MeMartrie of San Luls Ob.spo, who has had large contracts for buildiug sections of the coast line of the Southern Pacific Rall- road, is a recent arrival here. Robert Johnson of Monterey is in the City, aguest at the Grand. Mr. Johnson was for- merly a prominent and successful merchant of EL Paso, Tex., and served two terms as Mayor of that city. He retired from active business pursuits a short time since and pur- chased a 1irge tract of land near Monterey. He has a deightful nome in the old capital i of Californiu CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Y. Aug. 13.—At the Plaza, J. Warner; Steuart, Mrs. Beckwith; Holland, Mr. and Mrs. B. Curtaz; Sinclaire, F. Woo bridge; Morton, C. A. Cottreil; Windsor, G. W. Drysdale. M. Davis and L. Michaels are here buying. Mre. J. B. Mcran, Nathan M. Moran, R ‘bart B. Moran and Hugh A. Moran left the Pisza and sailed on 'he Bremen for Bremen. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kohler, Carlton Durrell and Miss Belle Breckabo sailed for Germany. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New York Press. Some men succeed by ability; others rely on whiskers. Lots of bald-headed men who don't belleve in fuith cure use patent hair restorrs. Everybody is couceited, only some folk can actlike they weren't beiter than others. Some men always 1nsist on going it alone, even when tneir wives' hands have all the | cards, No man ever really believes that a girl was never kissed, but he likes to hear how well she can say 1f some givls had their wedding outfit burned up the day before the wedding they wouldu’t see anything to get married for. WITH YOUR COFFEE. Some of the Klondike miners will be com- | ing back to this country next spring to mine for beefsteak and potatoes.—Chicago Record. Papa—So Emily stands at the head of her class in French? Mumma—Yes. She and another girl were exactly even in the writien examinations, but 1t was decided that Emily shrugged her shoul- ders more correctly.—Collier’s Weekly. A small boy, the Rev. Dr. Lambuth relates, teased his father for a watch till he was for- bidden to mentfon the matter again. At fam- ily prayers next morning, when ssked for his Scripture verse, the youngsier repeated, “What I say unto you,I say untoall—watch.”— Chautauqua Assembly Herald. 1 can’t understend Brown’s failure. He was reputed to be a first-class business man.” “‘IV's easily explained. Some one told him once that he was a good poker player, and he's be:n trying to demonstrate it.”” — Chicago Post. “Why, Georgt those cigars 1 gave you for a birthday pres- ent?” “No, dear. Icouldn’tfindit in my heartto burn anything you gave me,”—Jugend. The Captain (boisterousiy)—Come, 0ld man, brace up! What's got 1nto you? Passenger—If you don’t put me ashore you'll very soon see.—Brooklyn Life. Mrs. Stalefirm (who mistakes Dr, Jovial for a physician)—And where do yoa practice, doc- | tor? Rey, Dr. Jovial—Ah, madam, I do not prac- tice; I only preach.—Boston Traveler. “I wonder why they call the expensesofa church the runniog expenses?”’ said Mrs. Martin. I suppose It's because the vestrymen are never able to catch up with them,” an- swered her husband.—Harper's Bazar. Mrs. Watts—Doesn’t it make you envious to read of that woman who washed out over $10,0001n .gold dust at 0dd *imes, between her househoid duties? Mrs. Potts—Ob, 1t ought to have been easy enough. Ehe had no bired girl to take up her time.—Indianapolis Journal, vou haven't smoked anyof | THE THIRTY-MILE STRIP. New York Sun. A recent dispatch from Ottawa announced that a meeting of the Dominion Cabinet had | decided to open extra customs siations ‘“‘be- yond the head of Lynn Canal, which isin dis- | puted territory,” and that the consent of the | Washington aunthorities would be asked “to a modus vivendi under which Canada will have | the right of way for a telegraph over the dis- puted territory from Lyun Canal to the first mounted police post.” Thus it witl be obseryed that Canada quietly assumes that the irontier of Alaska is in dis- pute. itis weill known that that frontier has not yet been marked out by visible posts or othier monuments; but Canada would also hold [ that ths treaty leaves it doubtiul when the | line rune, North of Mount St. Eifas, indeed, there can be no pretense of uncertain'ty, since the 141st meridian, named as the trontier, can be fixed { wilh astronomical precision ; and fortunate.y | the Yukon gold fieids all come in the region | which this treaty meridian traverses. But | south of Mount St Elias is a long strip of sea- coast marked by a different treaty line, and this sirip contains tne ports and harbors through which the Kiondike region is ap- i proached by the Chilcoot Pass. it becomes therelore & matier of present importance whether Canada’s theory that there is disputed territory there is well founded. The treaty of February 28, 1823, between Russie and Great Britain, under which our Tights to Alaska are derived by purchase from i the jormer, says that the boundary line, be- ginning ut the southernmost poiut of Prince of Wales Isiand, ascends to tne north along Portiand Channel as fur as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude. Thence it is to “follow the | summit of the mountains situated parallel to the coast as far as the point of intersection of the 141si degree of west longitude,” thence { proceeding ulong that meridian to the Frozen Ocean. 1itis further provided that whencver the summit of these mountains proves to b2 more than ten marine leagues from the ocean the line “shall be formed by a line parallel to the winding of the coast, which shall never | exceed the distance of ten marine leagues | therefrom.” It turned out that the continuous rangs of mountains parallel to the coast, depicted on Vancouver’s map, wbich was used by the | framers ot the treaty, was imaginary. Hence the alternative provision of & distance of thirty marine miles irom the coast neces- | sarily was adopted for determining the bouridary; and he line thus drawn, the line we still have for Alaska, is found on British maps as well as ours for s period of nearly or | quite sixty years after the signing of the treat Where, then, does “the disputed territory’” ot the current Ottawa despatches come in? | We will endeavor to explain. Atout a dozen | | years ago there appeared on some Dominion | maps & new ling, nearer to the coast, drawn in the light which scme Canadian geographers and siatesmen professed to have obtsined as | to the ireaty requirements. 1In the first vlace, | they substituted for Portiand Canai, or chan- | nel, mentioned in the treaty, un estuary lying | turther west, calied Behm Canal, arguing that the words ““the said Jire suall ascend (o the | north” point to Behm Canal, whereas in order to reach Portland Canal you must first go to {he east, and then to the north. This view ! would take from us Revilla Gigedo and a smallerisland, with & large peninsula of the mainiand between Portland Chaunel and Burroughs Bay. We canuot_allow this theory to outweigh the fact that Vancouver's map contains Port- 1and Chaniel, plainly marked, as the basis of | the treaty. It was necdiess to mention that the line wen: eastward for twoscore miles miles from Cape Muzon, the soutbernmost point of Prince of Wales Isiund, before going | north, because there is no other way 10 get to | \ Portland Channel, and this initial stretch is i trivial compared with the thousands of miles | nortnwara that follow. And as to the further | point that Behm Canal exterds to the fifty- sixth parallel, while Poriland Channel does not, the latter goes probably to within three or four milesof the parallel, and possibly to within less than a mile, so that a lack of knowledge of its exact extentin 1825 is not surprising. But even more out of the question is the modern Canadian claim that the ten marine leagues shzll be measured from the outer | edges of the islands along the coast! That is absolutely preposterous. The treaty ex- pressly declares that the iine shall foilow *‘the winding of the coast,” and the French word in the treaty is sinuosites, which is equally expressive of a counlinuous line, turning in | different directions. How could that exist | with the great gaps between the islands lying ‘, off the const? As if seeing this-objection en official map, | made ten years ago and recently followed, | proceeded to suppiy a trealy range “‘parailel 10 the coast’ by counmnecting Wwith straight Jines a selected number of peaks out of the many scattered over the region for miles back. This device in some cases takes those peaks that comes down near the water's edge. By cuiting across cosst waters in some places it wight give tne British a hola on the coast. 1o Commissioner Martin’s map, published year before lust, the line, after runuing up Behm Chanrel and pAssing along the summit of sundry pesks manufactured into a range, leaves to the British the head of the inlet kuown as Tracy Arm, cuts across the Taku lulet about midway and performs like feats with Lvon Canal and Glacier Bay. Themouth of the Taku River, the best place for a seaport, is thus transferred to Great Britain, so as mep-making can do it, while in Lyan Canal the line is made to run south of Berners Bay, where Americaus have long been settled. The whole distance thence upward is tbus claimed lncln:lnl Dyea,where we have recently opened a por buch is what Canada choosesto comsider «aisputed territory” by mere process of claim- ingit. It wili bewell for our Goverument ty examine closely the wording of any commu- hications asking for favors. We need no ! modus vivendi basea on the theors that a question exists as 10 our rights in that regi Apari from the posiuive language of the treaty, its plain purpose was to give to Russia the absolute ownership and control of the sea- coast, earryiug her jurisdiction thirty marine miles into the inter of 10 cover all cases of doubt. Itisnow too late for England to try to break up this strip by dottiug the seacosst here and there with ports, perhaps cutting off mulnland p {askn from esch olber. MEN AND wOMEN. Thomas A. Edison is said to enjoy reading trashy novels. L % There have besn twenty-seven cases of in- sanity in (he Bavarisn roysl family during the last hundred yea Steps are being taken in Halifax, N.S, for the erection of & mouument to the memory of Joseph Howe, the “iather of responsible gov- ernment in British America.” General Harrison explains his absence rrom the reunion of his old regiment at Acton, Ind., by saying that his wife and daughter were Loth iil, and he was coasequently usable to attend. The Earl of Ranfurly, who has been ap- poluted Governor of New Zesland and is 10w on his way to his post, carries with him Do less than sixty tons of baggage, including four carriages and 630 cases of wine. Dr. William Judkins of Cincinnati has re- signed from the Humane Soctety of that city because when he wished to experiment on & vegrant dog the society refused to let him use the dog for such vivisection. When Seth Low was & schoolboy in the Brooklyn Polytechnical Institute he acquired Jocal fame as an amateur actor of no mediocre ability, his part de resistance being that of the hero in the ““Merchant of Venice.” Rosa Bonheur, the famous artist, is seldom seen in a great oity. She loves to live in the and especially where there are woods. She was recently In Paris for a short time, because four of her pastels are being exhibited there. Ta A notice has been posted in the branches of the Boston Puplic Library which states that to “‘prevent unsuccessful applications’ people are advised that the works of the following suthors are no longer in the library: Edward E. Ellis, Charles A. Fosdick, Mary J. Holmes, Oliver Optic and Ann S. Stephens. Many peo- ple are of the opinion that the exclusion of these authors is unwarranted. Mrs. Ormiston Chant contradicts the report which has been widely circulated to the effact that she has taken to smoking. During her visit to Crete she was advised to smoke & Ci- garette for the purpose of appeasing the pangs of hunger; Lut although she adopted the ad- vice her hunger was in no way appeased, but instead, she suffered from blistered Jips. This was the only time she ever smoked. ANSWERS 10 CORRESPONDENTS. A HALF OF 1829—W., Stockton, Cal. There is no premium on a half-dollar of 1829 coined in the United States. Dealers offer half-dol- lars of that date for 75 cents. THE CLOCK’'S DravETER—H., Clty. The elock in the Chrouicle tower has two dials; the one that marks the time by day has a diameter of 16} feet, while the one that marks the time by uight has a diameter of 1134 feet. Two Hmis—H. E, City. Clay - street hill, at Clay and Jones streets, the highest established grage in the section, is 335 feet above base, and Russian Hill, at Vallejo and Jones streets, the highest estab!ished grade in thatsection, 1s 296 icet above base. COOKING SCHOOL—Subscriber, Sonoma, Cal. There have been cooking schools in San Fran- cisco conducted by private individuals, and cooking is taught in some of the private schools of this City. Lessons in cooking were also given in the public schools. HAMBURG-LIVERPOOL—. City. The total tonnage entered and cleared at Hamburg in 1895, the latest figures obtainable, was 12.- 534,200. The totsl tonnage entered and cieared at Liverpool for the same year, nog 1ncluding coastwise trade, of which ihere arg no figures published, was 10,481,540. LAw OF UTAH—S. P. D., City. In the State of Utah a husband may dispose of his separate property as he chooses. . Nefther the wife nor the mother has any abcolute rights in it Should he die without a will his widow inher- its one-half if he leaves one child, and onc- third if there are more children. The mother takes nothing under such circumsiances, If the deceased ieaves no children, but & widow, the father And mother take one-half and the widow the other half. 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