The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 30, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRA “ISCO CALL. MONDAY, AUGUST 30 1897 - - "JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. PUBLICATION OFFICE.... ......710 Market street, San Francisco Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL RCOMS.. ...517 Clay street Telephone Main 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this ity and surcounding towns for 15 cents a week. 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.. OAKLAND OFFICE. NEW YORK OFFICE. Roowms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. 37 Monigomery street, corner Clay; open until Haves street; open untl ) o'clock. 615 open uatil 9:30 o’clock. SW. coraer Sixteenth and Mission streets; open uutil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 1243 ) open until 9 o'elc 1505 Polk street; open until 93 W. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky sireets; open till 9 o’clock. INDIA AND KHYBER PASS. LOOMY is the outlook for the British in the war on the Afghan frontier since Khyber Pass fell into the hands of the fanatical Afridis. Since the British-Afghan cam- paign of 1878, when Khyber Pass was captured by the English, under Sir Sumuel Brown, that main gateway between Peshawur and Cabul had remained in possession of the British. Its fall leaves the insurgent tribesmen free to sweep down upon the villages of Punjab in British India, and there is danger of na- tives flocking to the standard of the invading host. The name of Khyber Pass, already famous in history, will | be still more memorable before the present conflict ends. It is virtually the key to the Eastern situation, and Russia has long had a covetous eye upon it. The Afghan campsign of 1878, in the same region, was brought about largely by Russian in- trig e It was the refusal of Ameer Shere Ali to 2admit a British embassy to his dominion while he received a Russian mission with honor that then led England to declare war. Had not the latter power then actea as she did it is possibla that Russia would have acquired the Khyber long ago. 1f the Afghans could held that pass permanently there isa probability the Czar might yet secure that important van- tage point, and in that case he would be practically able to in- vade India whenever international questions shouid arise. But England will make big sacritices to win back the Khyber. 1t is of almost vital necessity to her if her domination over all india is to continue down the years of the futare. The courts have decided that a young woman who pays for buggy rides in which a young man participates merely lends the young man the money. Perhaps thisis good law three- uarters of the time, but if it can’t be waived during leap year many a maid will understand the pang invoived in “getting the mitten.” While in a hypnotic state a man convicted in Southern Califorria of two murders declared his innocence, and the Su- | preme C final. urt was asked to accept this verdict as correct and The murderer went the wroug it refused. He should have had the operator hypnotize the Naturally way about it ng azo Kansas banks were distressingly prone to oors, and now they keep them open fai »mmod depositors. try reinses to go to rack an ! ruin arcor ling to calamity schedule. It is a relief to learn that an 1l-year-old schoolboy who is losing bis mind has been driven to this condition by cigarettes. The first and natural impulse was to biame the course of study prescrived this year. the Cleveland people who profess to have been Perbaps shocked at bt of stage realism were less annoyved by the shock it an by the circumstance that their neighbors saw them getting it. When rumor declares a ceriain lady and gentleman about to wed, and both deny it, there appears no reason known to proper journalism why the rumor shou!d be given newspapar space. e affair between Russia and eitner of the parties ultimately bring- It is to be hoped that the lo = ing action for betrayal under the promise of undying affection. France will not resu CALIFORNIA’S FUEL PROBLEM, LL fue! problems are being solved by degrees in California, nd before the twentietn century is many years advanced we may expect to behold mills and factories by the score in every locality wherz enterprise prevails. manufacturing industries ia this State has been retarded by reason of the cost of power production more than by any other cause, and it is safe to predict that steam power, now in such common use in all our cities, will be superseded before many decades have slipped away by electrical power generated along the rivers and mountain streams of the State. Transmission of elec trical power over long distances by wire re water power is converted into electrical s destined to work wonders for Calilornia, Sacramento enjoys the benefits of such utilization of distant water power, as do also Fresno, Los Angeles and a few minor cities of the West. Bu: this scheme of making waste power in remote and from stations W enerzy sparsely seitled aistricts valuable in cities scores of miles away is as yet merely at the introduction stage. The towns of Amador and Calaveras counties and the mines of the mother lode are the latest to avail themselves of the ad- vantages referred to. To-day they are supplied with light and power from 2 monster electric-plant, whose motive power is a head of wa.er brought down from the Blue Lakes, located at the summit of the Sierras, midway between Lake Tahoe and the Yosemite Valley. The generating station is situated near Jackson, Amador County. The machinesused at present can generate 1800 horse- power, but the canals and pipes are buiit on a plan which cal- culates four times that amount of nower. All that is necessa:y is to install the requisite machinery in order to obtain the increase of power desired. It is claimed that if ever it should be needed 50,000 horsepower, half of that now required by the whole State of California, could be gene- rated there, as the water is luliy sutficient. What has been cone at the mother lode with regard to the utilization of water power may be done at many other points in the State. The time is rapidly coming, too, when the vast power now going to waste in our numerous streams will serve to turn every factory wheel in the Golden West. Eiectric power thus derivel represents a savinz so great that, in comparison with it, the use of wood and coal are expen- sive luxuries, We trust the time may come without much delay when electric light, heat and power will be obtained in all our cities by wire transmission, just as it is done to-day in that district watered by the Blue Lakes. —_— Chicago is dealing with a peculiar case, that of Lustgart, accused of murdering his wife and destroying her body in his sausage factory. While some traces purporting to be those of the latter grewsome operation have been discovered, the fact that the wife is dead remains to be established. There has not even been found so much as “'a rag, a bone and a hank of hair.” and less can hard!y hass for a woman. Indeed, there has been objection even to this spirited description as far from adequate. A Buffalo paper raises a curious question by remarking that “Convict Willis did not live long enough to serve out his life sentence.” The conduct of Mr. Willis in dying may have been reprehensible, and yet really good men have been known to deport themselves in a similar fashion. The question, of course, is as to how long Willis ought to have clung to his tenement of clay and whether he placed himself under contempt by sneak- ing out of it, cbstinate coun- | The growth of | THE MISSION PARK SCHEME, AN FRANCISCO has given a fair and attentive hearing S to those who are seeking to impose upon the taxpayers the burden of raising a large sum of money for the purpose of establishing in the Mission a park and a zoological garden. The promoters of the scheme have had full time and oppor- tunity to present every argument favorable to the project, and there has been little or no attempt in any quarter to controvert them. The people, therefore, having heard all that can be said for the project, are now able to pronounce judgment upon it, and there can be no question but that the decision will be adverse to the whole undertaking. To purchase the land required for such a park and garden will cost a gréat deal of money, the improvement of the ground will add a further expense, and when finally the park has been laid out and planted there will be an annual expendi- ture of a considerable sum necessary to maintain it. Even if we concede that there will be no corrupt or wasteful jobs in connection with the undertaking, and that the strictest econ- omy will mark every step taken from first to last, the cost will still be a matter of serious consideration to taxpayers, because dollar less for use in the work of other municipal improve- | ments, many of which are imperatively necessary. Having in Golden Gate Park a spacious pleasure ground extending from the hills to the sea and accessible to the resi- dents of the Mission as well as to those of other districts, we can get along without additional park room much better than we can without improvements in street sweeping, sprinkling and paving ; in sidewalks ; in street extension and in the sewer system. It is an old saying embodying the common-sense wisdom of many generations, ‘‘ The necessaries we must have, but we can dispense with the luxuries.”” A park in the Mission would b2 a luxury on'y, while street and sewer work in many portions of the City is absolutely necessary. Why expend money for another park when we have not yet completely planted and adorned the park we have? Why expend money for a remote pleasure ground when our imperfect sewers threaten the City with disease, and the rough cobble stones on our main thorough- fares entail a heavy wear and tear on all kinds of traffic? There are many cities so situated as to require large areas of open ground planted with trees, because they would be | unhealth{ul otherwise. In tae Eastern States that is the com- mon condition of large cities. In the heats of their sweltering summers, the people must have ample breathing spaces on all sides to save them from the fevers and pestilences that are bred in their crowded tenement districts. It is not so with San | Francisco. | tion of this City all summer long with as much fresh air as is needed for health, and often more than is agreeable. The Mission park project ought to be dismissed from further consideration. We have other work of greater im- portance to which to direct our energies and all the money our already over-burdened expenses. Let us carry out those necessary improvements which will benefit all the people and devote what money we can spare for pleasure grounds to the work of developing Golden Gate Park and making its conservatories, aviaries, museums, botanical gardens and zoological features equal to any in the world. While the stealing of a watermelon cannot on strictly moral grounds be defended, the man who does not look back upon a | few episodes cf the kind is conscious that his youth lacked Such being a popular view, the Kentucky farmer 1+ who left 8 poisoned melon where it could be and was stolen, to the mortal undoing of seven who partook,.must expect here- efter to be heartily disesteemed. It is hard to fool the Sausalito gamblers. A jury has pro- nounced them not guilty, but they know that they are just the To say that the jurv also knows this would be going too far. Thereisnoevidencetoshow that that jury knowsanything. The citizen who deciared in the hearing of a colored pugilist that no white man shou!d fight with a negro was evidently sin- cere. The colored pugiiist promptly smote him on the jaw, and he did not display the least tendency to smite back. | something. same, WE ARE GETTING USED TO IT, ROM all parts of the country come favorable reports of the F state of trade. The upward trend is distinguished by a | steadiness which is exceedingly gratifying. It has contin- | ned without break for some weeks and bids fair to preserve its momentum. All lines are now comprehended in the reaction, and there is hardly a branch of trade which can be called really dull. The situation is well given in Dun’s Review of this week as follows: | | Speculative markets have their turns of reaction, but business has | none this season. The starting of works, increase in hands emoloyed, j advance in wages and in prices of products and the heavy movement | of crops are facts before which all speculative influences have to bow. The week’s dispatches mention sixteen iron works which have started againstone closing, fifteen woolen works starting, and o in many cther branches, while many are preparing to resume, and some have increased wages. While these things continue—with grain rising and going abroad in enormous quantities—money markets have reason for | abounding confidence and speculative markets for strength. Crop iprospec!s are contradictory, as usual at such a time, but it is note- worthy that none of them indicate anything less than ample supply of the great staples. The details of the situation accentuate the point conveyed in the above extract. Wheat of course leads in the list o commodities which show a substantial gain, and the public have followed its course so closely that comment on it is un- vecessary. The wool market is distinguished by great strengtn and a further advance in some grades, while the heavy buy- ing of woolen govods has started many mills to work night and day and led manufacturers of many grades to withdraw them frem tne market. Tne iron trade, too, is getting much more active, and the demand has so far overtaken the capacity of the different works that prices are rising. The rise in quota- tions is 2.7 per cent for the week, and heavy buving of ore is reported. lides and leather are also firm and active. Fluc tuations in general merchandise are steadily growing more frequent and are almost invariably in the direction of higher prices. From various parts of the country come reports of advances in wages and an increase in the number of men employed. On this coast the agreeable story is being repeated weck after week with pleasant regularity. The bank clearings keep on gaining, showing an increasing volume of business. The different trades uniots report a better outlook for labor in many induswries. The cereals are selling at prices which en- able the farmer to make not only a living but a net profit. The merchants report & continual gain in the output of goods. The fruit-growers are enjoying a steadily advancing market for fresh and dried fruits, with the prospect that the rise will continue. Provisions, though stiil in good movement, are not as lively as they were during the Klondike excitement, when the call for them was unprecedented, nor was it expected that the boom would continue after the different expeditions had been fitted out. Money is in large supply for solvent borrowers at the usual rates of interest. Farm mortgages are being lifted here and there, showing that the farmer is prospsring once more. Failures are comparatively few, and as a ruie are not large. Col- lect.ons are average and in some lines very good. Thus the rising tide flows. Itisgetting to be an oft-repeated tale. The public are becoming used to accounts of miils start- ing up, of long-stagnant commodities suddenly growing active, ot prices rising from the starvation to the profitable point. The novelty is wearing off. The good times promised by the ad- vance agent are here and everybody knows it. It isno longer a qnestion of whether we will make anything, but of how much we will make. Very good. Aafter four years of Democratic panic and stagnation the public can stand & few years of Repub- lican pro:perity, even if the novelty does wear off. | every dollar expended for the proposed park will be just one | The winds of the broad Pacific furnish every sec- | taxpayers can afford for municipal | SNAPSHOTS ALONG THE COAST. And yet the Herald of Gridley presumes to predict the marriage of Florence Hincklevin spite of the fact that Attorney-Generai Hart declares she will marry no Modre. According to the Salinas Owl a boy down that way ate a buttercup and died, thereby at- testing still further the propriety of letting that song about “sweet Little Buttercup” fade from memory. If there is o chjection, we move that if Andres finds the por'h po e, it's bis—to hold and p'eserve by squatter's sovereignty or any old thing.— Wheatiand Four-Corners. We second the motion. The Free Press of Redding remarks that prosperity is haunting the farmer, which, of course, places the experience of being haunt- ed among the trialsof the flesh that are not particularly hard to bear. To its statement that ‘“the Populists are de veloping the grea‘est hostility to further at- | temuts at fusion’” the Vallejo Chronicle meg- leets to add the logieal inference that the pros- pect for fusion is growing brighter. /The assurance of a local paper to the effect that, in their ostensible meeting to discuss preventive medicines, the doctors are not likely to go far towsrd “'killing the goose that lays tihe golden egg” doesn’t insure the prevail- | ing kind of geese against anything. The editor of the Vailejo News says that if a mAn wants to bit a targel with a bullet, he does not start firing round in A general sort of way in the hope thatone bullet will bit some- thing. Which simply shows that the News editor has never studied the San Franciseo policeman, Because Queen Lil i¢ coming to Californis, the San Leaudro Standard doesn’t care “whether Jonquin Miller comes back or not.” But we do. The natural responsibility which we feel for the safety of Queen Lil while she is our guest inspires a prelerence that he do not come back. The statement of the Napa Register that the Mare Isand Na: disbursements, smounting o $100,000, every month,” just shows how contrary some things go.' There are other towns where an absence of money caus:s the people to move every month, 1t is interesting to learn from the St. Helena Sentinel thav the prices of prunes in Sonoma Couaty are ranging from $16 to $22 a ton, according to size. When a waiting world has been apprised of how many sizes a ton attains 10 in that extraordinary region the interest will be complete. When the Berkeley Advocate declares that the rise in silver 1s keeping pace with the rise in wheat it not only adheres to an obsolete political hubit of last year but evolves a new and distinct species of compaigning which scems to have no place even inan age that tolerates Mr, Bryan. The claim of the woman mentioned in the Coming Observer as having discovered a goid mine near Redding, 1o the effeet that she will “found” an Adamless Eden on the spot, is di- | vested of some of its effectiveness by the fact that an Adamless Eden cannot be found, either there or anywhere else. The circumstance that a traveler toward the Yukon gold fields paid $1000 to have his bag- gnge carried over the pass enlarges the eyes of the Oakiand Tribune editor, as though that were a thing to marvel at. Mr. Bryan would give ten times that amount to have even & single blanket drawn over his pass. \ This gem of philosophy is culled from the Santa Cruz Sentinel: “The prople who go up 10 the Trinity County mines can come down agamn. What goes up must come down.” The merciful view to take of this is that Editor McPherson did not have in mind at that parucuiar moment his lofty reputation as a poet. Itis noted in the Folsom Telegraph that a certain individual recently tried to reconcile the erratic ideas of a calf with his own notfons of a bicycle, by hitching the calf and the bicy- cle together. The circumstance that his in- { vestigations resulted in disaster, merely con- firms the natural presumption that he would succeed. The Oakland Enquirer needn’t feel so dis- | couraged over the escape ot Mr. Hill from hang- ing. That profound action of the court was Dprobabiy designed as an iustructive object les- son to illustrate the aavantage which civiliza- tion derived from the calling out of the militia in Colusa the other day to save a murderer from mob law. The gods that ru'e the destinies of weakly newspapers have again ordered a change of editors for the Saturday Press, Oakland’s one- time literary organ. John T. Bell succeeds John H. Delahaniy, to whom he pays a certain stipulated sum for the distinetion. A restora- tion of the pap:r to its former size and station is among the things that one might hope for it, without at all wishing the new proprietor any harm. The sugar beet editor of the Warsonville Pajaronicn has compiled the foilowing statis- tics relating to the leading industry of the Pa- jaro Va'ley: ¢Beet hauling commenced in this valley on Monday. About 100 ions per day are being delivered. The delivery from Salinas Valley commenced last Wednesday and has averaged 250 tons per day. From San Juen and northern points the delivery com- menced last Friday and has averaged 250 tons per day.” “The Board of Town Trustees,” says the News of Sausalito, “should pass an ordinance at its next meeting making it a misdemeanor for any one caught maliciously turning ina false alarm.'” If Sausalito does that it wiil meroly place itself at the head of an age that is undoubtedly destined to usher in a system of punishing offenders, not tor their offenses, but for their stupidity in getting caught. Then it wi.l only be necessary tor them to report to the police when they have picked a pocket or blown up a safe in order to torestall the incon- venience of bsing arrested and jailed for it. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES, The British torpedo-boat destroyers Trasher and Virage will shortly be sent out to join the Pacific squadron. The Shikishima, battle-ship of 14,850 tons, recoutly begun at the Thames Iron Works, is 10 be completed in two years. Admiral Mackaroff of the Russian navy has submitted a plan for reaching the nortn pole by meaus of ice-breaking vessels. Heis of the opinion that an ice-brevking ship of 26,000 horsepower could reach the pole without difti- culty. The French armored cruiser D’Entrecasteux, contracted for in Novemter, 1893, is arly ready for her steam trials at Toulon. She is piauned after the American armored cruiser New York and is of 8114 tons displacement. With 18,500 horsepower & speed of 19 knots is expected. The battery of the D'Eutrecas- teux is composed of two 9.4-inch rifles in bar- bettes and twelve 5)4-inch quick-firing guns in casemates. The battery of the New York consists of six 8-inch rifles in barbettes and twelve 4-inch quick-firers. The gun protec- tion of the two ships is of the same thickness. Ase long-distance cruising ship the French vessel has the advantage over the New York in being wood-sheathed and coppered. The French second-class cruiser Friant of 8739 tons recently went through s serles of practical tests while attached to the northern squadron. During six days' continuous steam- ing atsea the ship kept up a speed of 16 kuots, and at the end of this severe trialsteamed homeward and averaged 17 knots during fil- teen hours. She arrived in port mn good con- dition with her boilers in perfect order, of which she had used eighteen out of the com- plement of twenty. Tne Friant was built at Brest in 1893, and made 18 19 knots on her trial trip. Her recent periormance is en un- usually creditable one and in marked contrast with the many failures in the French navy. Russia is building eleven armored vessels in its dockyards and by contractand twe more sre shortly to be begun. Eight of these have been launched, varying from four yehrs up to the present year. The names and displace- ment of the ships in hand are: Osliaba and Peresyiet, each of 12,674 tons;y Tri Sviateti- lia, 12,480 tons; Poltava, Petropolowsk and Sevastopol, 10.960 tons; Rotisiay and a sister | snip, each of 8880 tons) Admiral Aproxin and another of the same type, coast-aefense ships, of 4126 tons, and Khrabry, un armored gun- boat of 1492 tons. Two battle-ships of 12,480 tons will be laid down at Nicolaieif during the present year. The Tri Sviateiilia had ber twelve hours full-speed trials last mouth aud made 18 knots, or 2 knots more than anticl- pated. Her engines were built in England. The Japanese battle-ship Yashima, pbuiit at Elswick, began her trial trips Ju'y 13 and conciuded the same in about one week, during which she demonstrated the expectations of the builders as the speediest battle-ship afloat. Under a four hours’ forced draught the speed’ averaged 19.227 knots with 14 075 horse- power, and uader nataral draught she aver- aged 17.26 knots and 9570 horsepower during six nours. The forc»d-iraught speed exceeded the contract by 1.227 kaots on the stipulated horsepower. Equiily suceessful was the trial todetermine her mancuvering qualities, for with the rudder hard over and both screws going &t full speed the ship mace a circle with a diameter less than one and one-half times the ship’s length, and reversed her di- rection in about one minute. With the helm at an angle of 10 degrees the ship made a circle under full speed for a diameter three times her own tengih, and reversed her direc- tion in 1 minute and 26 seconds. The Yas- hima is a sister ship 4o the Fuzi, recently com- pleted at the Thames Iron Works and which attained a speed on her trial of 1858 knots. They are 12,450 tons displacement, 374 feet in length, 73 ieet beam #nd 26 feet 6 inches draughtaft. The armor is of 18-inch max mum thickness, and the main battery co: sists of four 12-inch and tem 6-inch quick- firing guus. They have five torpedo tubes, of which four are under water. A. Layton of Wapakonets, Ohio, a colonel in the Ohio militia. Joseph Grimmond of New Zealand, a mine- owner and operator and a member of the New Zealand Legislature from Westland District, the great gold mining region, arrived at the California yesterday from London, whither he went to attend the Queen’s jubilee. He is now on his way to examine, on his own account and for London capitalists, the gold mining country of British Columbia about the Cootenai, Slokane and Trail Creek regions, north of Spokane, and if possible, the Klon- dike, before his return to New Zealend in November. He will return here in the spring 10 enter the Klondike and prospect. amdenr DgiE Ly wme(_:_O_FFEE. «Jsitany fun getting a man to teach you how to ride the wheel?' “Funl Why, I've been taught three time Lite. “Who is the man with the eager, far-away look?” i «Oh, he's got the prosperity face.”—Cleve- land Plain Dealer. Ethe!—Maud has ben trying to leara how to ride a bicycle for four weeks now. Penelop e—Is her instructor stupid? Ethel—Nu—handsome. —Judge. Minnie—In my opiaion, one wheel is asgood as another. Mamie—I suppose there is not much differ- ence in rented wheels.—Indianapolis Journal. At a recent birthday party in Shepherds Bush a young lady began a song, “Thesutumn days have come, ten thousand leaves are fall- COMMANDER O} THE AFGHAN FRONTIER. General Sir 8londin Blood, commander of the British army on the Afghan frontier, is familiar with every foot of the mountain territory under his charge.and is likewise familiar with the character of the bellicose Afghans with whom he has to deal. The general took part in the Afghan war of 1879-1880, and wes awarded a gold medal for bis services in that confliet. Me is 55 years old and a ripe and seasoned soldier. He joined the royal en- gineers in 1860 and was rapidly promoted, becoming a captain in 1873, a major in 1879, a lieutenant-colonel in 1882 and a coionel in 1886, He won a medal and clasp in the Jowaki expedi- campaigns and is not afraid of fixhting. He has seen much service in many big tion of 1877-78. and was given the brevet of major for distinguished services during the Zulu war. In 1 praise from his superiors. and ciasp, a bronze star, decorated with the fourth class Osmanieh an v Two years ago he was again sent to the mountains as chief staff officer on tne ant-colone!. Chitral relief force and was decorated a K. C. B. for services in the campaign. In 1882 Blood whs sent ou the Egyptian expedition, and there, 100, won high He was mentioned in ice dispatches, presented with a medal and brevetted lieuten- Last year he was promoted to command a second-class district in India, with rank of brigadier-general. PERSONAL. G. W. Cummings of Placerville is at the Lick. James H. Arnold of Sacramento is at the Kuss. Dr. Thomas Flint of San Juan is at the Grand. N. E. de Yoe, a merchant of Modesto, is at the Lick. W. E. Baines, a capitalist of Coos Bay, is at the Lick. A. Rubenstein, a merchant of Hanfora, is at the Russ. Alfred S. Donan of Tucsou, Ariz, is at the Baldwin. W. H. Clark, a Los Angeles attorney, is at the Grand. William H. Devlin, a Sacramento attorney, is at the Lick. E. P. Marshall, an attorney of New York, is at the Palace. D. Alexander, a Watsonville merchant, isat the Occidental. John Thomann, a vineyardist of St. Helena, is at tht Grand. Mat Ilealy, e mining man of Susanville, is a guest at the Russ. Sheriff A. . Bogard of Red Bluff isat the Russ with bis wife. Willlam MeCluskey of Healdsburg, a capi- taiist, is at the Russ. A. Speer and wife of Marysville are atthe Cosmovpolitan Hotel. J. H. Hickey of Tacoma is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. . W. E. Barney, proprietor of & creamery at Ferndale, is at the Russ. G. E. Stickle, a merchant of Angels Camp, is registered at the Grand. W. H. Devlin, an attorney of Sacramento, is te arrival at the Lick. A. W. Simpson, a lumberman of Stockton, is a guest at the Occidental. William Nicholls, a banker and mining man of Dutch Fiat, is at the Grand. Sheriff U.S. Gregory of Jackson, Amador County, is visiting at the Grand. H. W. Crabb, the Oskvilie vineyardist, is making a short stay at the Grand. M. E. 8anborn, a lawyer and ex-Judge of Yuba City, is registered at the Lick. J.S Dinsmore, a lumberman of Eureka, is among the late arrivals at the Russ. H. F. Lahan and family of Lus Banos are stopoing at the Cosmonolitan Hotel, Frank Wiggins, secretary of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, is at the Grand. Rev. John Gray, Episcopalian clergy. rman of Los Angeles, is at the Occidental. William Best, a large tobacco manufacturer of Chicago, arrived yesterday at the Palace, Professor R. E. Allardice, head of the de- partment of mathematics atStanford, is at the California. Dan McElroy of Nova Scotia, accompanied by Mrs. McElroy and Miss McElroy, arrived at the Californin yesterday. Sam A. Alexander and F. M. Miller, mer- chants of Fresno, arrived at the Lick yesterday for a short business stay. ‘William St. Gill of Kobe, Japan, arrived at the Occidental yesterday ou his way home {rom London and the Queen’s jubilee. E James of Paso Robles, manager of the Stanford University baseball team and son of the proprietor of the Paso Robles Hotel, is at the Balawin. Professor A. T, Murray, head of the depart- ment of Greek at Stanford, returned lastnight row the East accom pauied by his family and registered at the Occidental. Among the arrivals at the Palace yesterday was a pleasure party of officiais at Washing- ton, just returned from a trip 1o the coast of Alaska and bound for Mexico on the way back to Washington, D. C. The party consistsof J. B. Foraker Jr.. olerk to hisbather, ex-Governor Foraker; M. W. Blumberg, official reporter of the United Siates Senate: B. W. Layton, ser- geant-at-arms of the National Senate, and C. “I have all the world before me,” shouted the young pol.tician who was addressing an audience in the northeastern part of the Sey- enth Ward. “Yes,” shouted an enthusiastic listener, “and Tuckshoe at your back onkers Statesman. “Fodhams, do you know Scorjel, the drug- gist?” “Only in a business sort of way. He 1s not exactly in our set, you know. One has to be rather careiul how ome— Ah, Scorjel, good- morning. Fine day.” “Yes, it’s u fine day. Mr. Fudhams, would it be convenient for you to pay me that $15 you | borrowed about six months ago?’—Chicago Tribune. JOHNNY IS GOIN’ TO KLONDIKE. Johnny is goin’ to Kiondike— He's sortin’ an’ packiu’ his things; He's goln’ L0 dress me in satin— My fingers will giitier with rings! Au’ I'll be the queen of the country, A’ nothin’ forever I'il iack; He’s kissed me good-by. but a tear's in my eye, ¥or Johnuy may never come back ! Johuny I8 goin’ to Kiondike— To face the wild 810w an’ the sleet; An’ all of the gold bis dear arms can hold He' | scatier -ome day at my feet: But with all o’ the earth’s gems an’ its jewels There’s somethin’ my sad bear: would lack If Lie left me to sigh 88 he kissed me g0od-by— If Johnay should never come back ! Johnny is doin’ to Klondike— Far from my kisses he'll roam: Euz what is the gold of the mountains “L'o the love that h's leavin’ at home? A simp «, poor lass with her lover The rob 8 0f & lady may lack, But no tear’s in ber eye tll he kisses her good- v— Aw Johnny may never come back ! FRANK L. STANTON. MEN AND WOMEN. Mrs. Humphrey Ward makes great use of the phonograph in composing her stories. Governor Barnes of Oklahoma wos a tele- graph operator at Leavenworth when the war broke out. Dr. R. A. Moseby, former State Republiean Chairman in Alabama, has ennounced him- self as a candidate for the gubernatorial nom- ination of his party in next year's campaign. Rev. Dwight L. Moody bas denied the re- port recently «iren'ated throughout New England to the effect that he intended to give up evangelical work to be succeeded by Rev. Wi.liam Patterson of Toronto. Judge John H. Reagan of Texas, who is now a very old man, is once more casting a longing eyeon a seat in the United States Senate, to the surprise of his friends and the displeasure of some of them. He is a free silver man. Miss Jeannette L. Gilider, in naming the modern authors which she cousidered first- class, did not mention Kipling, and when one of his admirers asked who was the greatest poet she said: ““Ibere is none. He is dead. John Otis, who used to be known as the “milkman Congressman,” is in Topeka, Kas., in poor health and straitened circumstances. Some time ago he started a co-operative col- ony in Colorado and put all his money into it. The colony falled. Mile. Lucie Faure, the daughter of the Pres- identof the French Republic, is most decid- edly religious in ber propensities. Matins, mass and vespers are never missea by her, though her gentle grace never aroused the ire of modern atheistic Paris. The German Empress is thinking of buying asmall estate in Holstein, and has fixed her affections on Schloss Saxtorf, which isin the neighborhood of Schloss Grunholtz, the home of her favorite sister, the Duchess Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Gluckburg. The “wheat king” of the world belongs to Argentina. Heisan Italian immigrant named Guazone, and his broad acres are situated in the south of the province of Buenos Ayres- His crop oceupies an area of 66,270 acres. He numbers his workmen by the thousand and each one recelves a certainshare oi the profits. When his season’s crop is harvested he fil.8 over 3000 railway trucks with the grain. prae e e CAMPAIGNING IN KANSAS. Kansus City Times Some of the alleged extravagances of the re- cent Legislature call to mind the famous Con- gress that committed the ‘‘crime of’73.” The action of that Congress resultedin the election of the first Democratic ticket ever elected in Sumner Couuty, and, strange to say. it was not the demonetization of siiver thatdid it, either. It was the following year thatthe grasshoppers struck Kansas and ripened the body politic for a revol At that time there was in Sumner County a man named Carter, a keen feliow, who was able to see a day or iwo into tne future. He conceived the .dea that it would be a good time 10 put up a Democratic icket. He went around to see ‘‘the boys” with & plan of cam- paign, and ther guyed him for thinking that & Democratic tickei could bs elected. To show his 1aith iu the success of his propo- sition he voiunteered to become n candiduie for Register of Deeds himself. James T. Her- rick had then settied st Wellington with oie s:cond-hand statute, and huug out a shiugie announcing the fact that he was an attorney- atlaw. In order to get acquainted with the Ppioncers he consentcd to run for the ofice of Probate Juige. At thattime J. Wade McDon- ald, now of California, the man who led Jesse, the son of General Grant, into the silver cause last year, was a voung lawyer, and he agreed torun for County Attornéy. In this way & full ticket was made up and duly nominated. Carter, having proposed the whole thing, was made the siandard-bearer of the cam- paign. He was to make the issue and fight for it, while the others pursued a *'still hunt.” The first thizg Carter Sm Was 1o fixX up a cov- ered wagon, end throw into it a few quilts, & {rying-pan, some flour, bacon and coffee. In this manner he went around fo advertise schoolhouse meetings. While the crowd gath- ered he cooked & pancake or two for supper, made some black coffee, and, after washing his frying-an, he would' address the meeting, and then crawl into his wagon to sleep. Cer- ter, in his speeches, drew a terrible picture of the conditions brought about by the grass- hoppers, ana then sailed into the extrava- gance of the Republican Congress. “Gentlemen,” he would say, when he had the audience properly worked up, “while wo are starving out here in this bleak prairie this Congress that I speak about has made an ap- propriation_of $10,000 to buy pocket-knives for themselves.” The pocket-knile outrage was the trump card of Mr. Carter and he played it for ali that it was worth. It was said afterward by the Republicans, when it was eternally too late, thatno such appropriation had ever been made in Congress, Lut it was another case of lccking the stable door after the horse was gone. The time for the Re- publicans to refute the charge was during the cempaign, but they iailed to do so. Carter carried the whole ticket (0 success, with hime self at the head of it. OUT IN KANSAS. Kansas City Journal. Ed Hoch relates a very funny story in con- nection with the meeting of the Popuiist County Convention at Marion the other day. White the exercises were in progress a Popi- 1list who has a fund of humor cailed Republi- can Chairman Myers aside and then escorted nim to a place where certain banners had been stored after use by the Populists in last fall’s campaign. Pretty soon Chairman Myers came marching up the street with a huge banner held aloft, upon which was inscribed this legend: A Vote for McKinley [eans 25 Cents for Wheat 8n. 3 Cents for Corn. FARMERS IN GREAT LUCK. Louisville (Ky.) Post. The farmers are being paid for their wheat in 200-cent dollars, according to the gospel of free silver, and if this gospel is true they are now getting nearly $2a bushel for their golden grain. Tnis *condition, and mnot tneory,” makes it very difficult for the calamity howler to get a harmonious chorus fo sing, “Hard Tiwes in the Old Land To-Day.”” STATE NOMENCLATURE, St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press. When Lincoin’s turn comes to have a new State named after him by all means let our scholars insist upon *“Lincolnia.” If ihe bad linguistic ¢aste which dictatea the naming of the State of Washington had prevsiled among orr forbears, we shouid now have a “Virgin,” a “George” and a North and South ‘Caroline.” instead of a Virginia, Georgia and two Carolinas. ONeE SHORT CROP. Detroit Free Press. In looking the fleld carefally over it will be iscovered that the calamity crop is the only one that is noiabl Townsead's." to mannfacturers, men by the Press 1igomery. * Linformation dai houses and publ Ciipping Bureau (Alien’s), e The unmarried man is constantly having thisdinned into his ears: “Now, if I werea single man like you I'd start for Alaska to- morrow.”—Albany Journal. “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup "’ Has been used over fifty ers for their children wh ng with perfect success. Tt :oothes the child. softens the gums, al- lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhaas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Drugaists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask tor Mrs.Winslow’s Soothin 25caboitie —_———— CORONADO.—Atmosphere Is perfectly dry. sof: and mild, being entirely free from: the mists com- mon further north. Round-trip tickats, by steam- sbip, including fifteen days' board at the Hotelda: Coronado, $60; longer stay $2 50 perday. Appis 4 New Montgomery streei. San Francisco. —— e NEW TO-DAY, Cheating in upholstery 1s done down below — where you can’t see it. That’s why we make our own. We can't trust the Eastern factory-made stuff. It looks fine on the outside— i's soft and restful—but it won'tlast. Springs get askew, stuffing gets lumpy, its beauty is gone—it’s gone. We know of upholstery that we made 20 years ago that is perfect in shape yet. The picture shows a com- fort chair for your sitting- room or library. ~Stout oak frame — home-made uphol- stery. California Furniture Company (N P Cole & Co) C:{x;)p:'u 117 Geary Street Mattings NOTARY PUBLIC, A. J. HENRY, NOTARY PUBLIC, 638 MARKKY -T., OPP PALACL HOIK! Telephone 570. Hes:d & T 670 | Sexidence’ 909 Valenais