The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 20, 1897, Page 4

4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1897 .SEPTEMBER 20, 1897 The MONDAY... JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE........ ..710 Market streot, 8an Francisco Telephons Matn 1868, EDITORIAL RCOMS ..517 Clay street THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week, By mail $6 per year; per month 63 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL..... /One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE...... .- 908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o’clock. " Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o’clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o’clock. 1243 Mission street; open until 9 o’clock. 1505 Polk street; open until 9:30 o’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second =na Kentucky streets; oven 1ill 9 o’clock. STILL MORE IMPROVEMENTS. HICAGO is now the center of improvement, furnishing the most favorable trade report in five years. The other leading cities of the West, such as Omaha, Kansas City, St. Paul and St. Louis, also report unusual activity in the wholesale and jobbing trade. The yellow fever scare is eutting into business in the Southern cities, and this is to be expected. Bat ttis drawbackis lccal and temporary. From other parts ol the countiry come uniform advices of a steadily increasing trade. In fact, the gain during the past week has been greater than anticipated. The iron industry continues to exhibita material fmprove- | 5 A < | more action that can enlist unintended recruits under the red ment, owing to purchases by consumers. Textile mills are more fully employed than for years, and prices are firm, with some advances revorted. The wool trade is abnormally active, ana purchasing is increasing at all markets, as it is believed that the foreign supp!ies are short. The exports of wheat and corn are enormous, and mining is both lively and profitable. One of the most graufying featurés is the commencement of gold imports into this country. They began in August and exceeded the exports by $2,390,600. This, with the excess of merchandise exports over imports of $40954,000 during the same month, conclusively shows that there is a tremendous balance of trade in favor of this country. In fact, we really seem to be feeding the world at the moment. The record of failures is another gralilying feature. Those week numbered only 199, against 175 for the previous week, 315 for the same week last year, 218 in 1895, 215 in 1894 and 246 in 1893. This last was the year of the panic. We seem to be praciicaliy whittling commercial failures down to nothing. Then there are the bank clearings. They Lave been geining for some weeks, but the gain during the past few days is enor- mous. Taking the United States as a whole, the increase in business iast week, as indicated by these clearings, was 28 per cent, and in the city of New York 52.6 per cent. Canada is sympathizing with the American prosperity, for her clearing- house geins last week were 29.4 per cent. The gain in San Francisc) was 45 per cent. On this coast conditions show no marked cbange, one way | or the other. Wheat has sagged somewhat during the past week, but the depreciation has not been very pronounced. At the close on Saturday the feeling was firmer and prices ex- hibited a rising tendency. Dried frmt suddenly quieted down in the e=rly part of the week, owing, so local dealers think, to the extreme hot weather in the East, for it is a well-known fact that when the weather is hot there the call for dried fruit im- mediately falls off. If this be true, the market ought to pick | up again now that the hot spell is over. But against the de- | preciation in wheat and dried fruits there was a marked im- provement in hops, which were wanted at an advance in prices, and a lively busines: wool, of which buyers cannot seem to get enough. Beel, too, suddenly rose to 61 cents per pound, owing to the comparative scarcity in cattle, which are being | shipped East in large numbers. Dealers in hides and leather reported continued activity in these goods at strong prices. Hay, too, which declined slightly several weeks ago and has since been easy, strengthened again, and the quotations got back to their old level of $15 per ton for the best. The beun market, on the contrary, fell off, both in value and activity, owing toa slump of $5 per ton in the East. The provision trade continued active at firm prices, save in hams, which de- ciined a fraction. The above points sufficiently illustrate the condition of trade, both here and in the East. The exhibit on the whole i more than gratifying. There is still no abatement in the up- ward tendency of the general run of the great staples. Butif some of them do cease to rise no harm will result, for most of the articles produced by the farmer are now selling away above the cost of production, and the farmer himself is making money once more. And there are no indications as yet of any serious decline in anything. The subscription of 8 local syndicate to the $6,000,000 bonds of the Valley road is one of the greatest financial events on this coast for years. It not only shows the abundance ot capital in large blocks in San Francisco, but it places this city before the financial world as a great money center for the handling of large enterprises. Stealing on the Klondike trails has thus far proved un- healthful, or even fatal. Larceny with a capital punishment attachment would seem to be shorn of much of its attractive- ness, yet one man is actually on the way to the gold fieldsina stolen boat. The form of suicide he has chosen indicates a peculiar taste, —_— The rumor that Lonise Michel intends (o visit the United States and convert people here to ber peculiar tenets is not par- ticularly alarming. Louise has as bad a temper as ever; her gift of gab has not in any measure been taken from her, butshe has lost her grip. She and Most ought to exchange condolences and retire, The proposition that England and the United States ex- ohange some of the war relics rude!y snatcthed from each other during times when relations were not amicable is not a sign that the door of peace is secure on the perck, but the only ex- change is likely to be that of compliments. Spain’s idea of retaining Weyler, “in deference to the wishes of the dead,” is poetical enough, but, judged by the stern stardards of war, seems to lack somewhat the eilements of practicability. Still even Weyler's foes admit his prowess at dictating to a typewriter. Experienced miners are leaving the Kiondike to avoid starvation, and yet yellow journalists and gray poets are there irying tc lure more people in, Perhaps their misery is of the sort that loves company. Being ‘“‘done to death by slanderous tongues” is not a pro- cess to which the people of this age have learned quietly to submit. Indeed the tendency to resent Ezaminer methods has become quite general. There is said to be danger of 6,000.00 in India starving to death in spite of a “marvelous” system of relief. A merely marvelous system is apparently inadequate. What is needed 1s a miraculous one. Hoke Smith’s prophecy that the Democrats will win in 1900 is not based so much upon knowledge as on hope. Hoke has beon in the prophet business before, and had to quit it and go back to work. | most defenseless. THE RIGHTS OF THE_COAL-S’I'RIKERS. HE coal strike is in process of conclusion. Its aggrava- Tfion§ have appealed to public thought, and a conclusion in the nature of ending a physical struggle in which those who could afford to wait win against those who could not is not lasting. The intervention of a foreign Government asking indemnity for the slain on the bloody field of Hazleton brings forward a feature that must be considered. It means that the parties were not citizens of the United States, but were subjects of the Austro-Hungarian empire. They had here the right of domicile and asylum and were subject to our laws. In the humane view, which should be taken, their due was an upright lesson in the high sense of justice held by our people and in the integrity of our Government and in the capacity of our laws to do justice to all from the least to the It is not a dismissal of the subject to say that they are ignorant; that their standards are not high. Let it be remembered that such material has always been used by the intelligently lawless as the means of violent revolution for the overthrow of systems and institutions. Does any man suppose that Debs and other agitators mourned the carnage at Hazleton? From the beginning of the strike he incited that vast mass of men, a majority of them aliens, subjects of European Governments, to overt acts that | would precipitate just such a tragedy. The blood shed was as water on his wheel. No reasonable man doubts that if the spirit of unrest continue and the ranks of the uneasy gain sufficient accessions, Mr. Debs stands ready, as he declares, to touch the match to the inflammable material of a revolution. It is against him that courts conjure, and with the adroit- ness of Robespierre he pas: the blow on to the organized strikers, who in the beginning were orderly and stood in line for the common rights of man. These things teach and exhort to a higher humanity in dealing with industrial problems. They invoke the best thought of Americans whose institutions are at stake. Let there be no flag of Mr. Debs. Endow every laborer with the full rights of man, and tzach him to respect those rights in his fellow-laborer. If need be, broaden the sentiment of justice so that laborers no longer feel the necessity for banding together for any other purpose than social intercourse and mutual helpfulness sickness and sorrow, and let the United States be known as the one land on earth where justice is so respected and equality of right so entrenched that combination of the weakest is not necsssary to secure aman’s right to sell his labor for the best wages and exchange his earnings to the best advantage for the necessaries of life. Then if aliens come to us determined to stand out of lin= to such a policy shut the gates against them, and if Mr. Debs preach a mission of revolution to dis- content and incits men to violate the laws that protect person and property, treat him as a publicrenemy. Soms compvlaint is made that court reporters receive too great compensation. There is something to be said on the other side. The President of the United States gets more than they do, and even a railroad president in some instances may be a close second. If there is any more to be said the court re- porters have to say it. There does not seem any particular reason why the city | should provide a meeting place for a lot of private citizens who were once Supervisors and did not know enough 10 hold their jobs. There are many places where they will be almost as welcome as ever, and even have the privilege of free lunch. Let them seek these out and give the people a rest. 1 Once more we read that Spain is “preparing for war.”” Pos- sibly 1t is a duty to think over the news with bated breath | when the dread realization is forced upon us that we are the people for whose benefit and correction these preparations are being made. However, it seems difficult to do this. If Epaini shalil be fully prepared to wage war in a forceful and civilized way, wisdom would seem to suggest the waging of a little of it in Cuba, where there 1s an opportunity for it. We can wait for our licking. OUR FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE. EORGE M. COFFIN, the acting Combtroller of the Cur- rency, whose duties keep him in close touch with the affairs of the banks of the country, has stated in a recent | interview that there is every evidence the United States is accumulating a vastamount of capital, and that sooner or later, if not already so, this country will be financially independent of Great Britain or any other nation. This statement is in line with the views of other financial experts, to whose opinions we have repeatedly directed atten- tion. Like the others, Mr. Coffin bases his conclusions upon the fact that for some time past the current rate for demand loans in New York is less than in London, and he argues that itis not at all improbable that New York bankers are lending money in London, thus reversing the conditions which in the past have mads us borrowers of foreizn capital and more or less dependent upon British money-leaders. The national banks of the country are said to hold akout $160,000,000 over and above the sumn required by law as a legal reserve, and it is believed the same condition exists among sav- ings banks, trust companies and other banking institutions. Indeed the accumulation of capital in savings banks is known to have been enormous. They had deposits ot $1,747,000,000 in 1894. These had increased to the extent of nearly $150,000,000 in 1896, and according to Mr. Coffin there is no doubt the figures for 1897 will show a farther upward movement, From this condition of our finances there will flow all the benefits involved in an abundance of capital and lower rates of interest. It 1is believed we shall never see again in this country the high interest rates that have prevailed in the past, This will give American manufacturers the use of money on equal terms with their European competitors, and will materially aid in the development of our resources and the extension of all forms of industry. In addition to rendering our home market more secure against competition from abroad it will also aid our merchants in contesting with Europeans for supremacy in the markets of South America. With his glowing account of the financial situation and his prophecy of the monetary independence of thiz country Mr. Coffin joins a warning agzainst the danger of overspeculation resulting from the abundance of capital awaiting investment.- Of that, however, there is not much danger in the near future, At the present time all kinds of property is virtually at bedrock prices. With the exercise of any kind of care and tne practice of adue amount of industry and thrift almost any industrial in | THE COAST PRESS. That enterprising paper, the Cloverdale Reveille, has opened its nineteenth volume, and promises to augment its value during the year by many new and interesting features. The Oceanside Blade is dealing effective strokes in defense of home support of home industries. “Don’t buy everything you pessi- Lly can away from home,” it exclaims, *'but reverse things ana purchase everything you possibly can at home, and you will by less likely to complain of money being so scarce, and the poor {ll-used birds on the metal cur- rency wili not have to scream from the fer- veney of your pressure before parting with them.” With commendable enterprise the Lancaster Gazette has issued an illustrated number, de- scriptive of the resources and beauties of An- telope Valley, the editor having traveled about 400 miles “under a tropical sun and a cloud- less sky,” in gathering the data. The publica- | tion is replete with interesting facts concern- ing one of the most promising regions in the southern part of the State, *‘a land where the oiive is free from scale, and where the almond finds its native conditions.” The Riverside Prss is already out with the announcement of an illustrated holiday sou- venit edition,which will be issued between the 1st and 15th of December, and which will contain about fifty pages. Heavy glazed book paper will be used, and the cover wili be done in colors. Every part of Riverside County and every phase of its resources and industries will be portrayed with pen and photogravure, It will constitute an excellent advertisement tor that ricn ssction of country, The Pomoma Beacon has discarded fts “patent inside” of fasbion plates ana house- hold recipes, and will hencelorward appeur as an all-home production. 1t will be printed with b:autiful new type on book paper, and in- tends to convince its readers that kind and quality of matter are oceptable substitutes for quantity. The Beacon, in fact, is deter- mined to blaze out with greater effulgence every succeeding week. It is modest in its ambition to become ‘‘the brightest and hand- somest little weekly in the United States.” The California Sugar-Beet, s new journal pub- lished in this city, is attractive in appearance and valuable as to contents. It makes & specialty of the news of beet sugar develop- mentand is replete with suggestions of im- portance to those engaged in one of Califor- nia’s leading industries. It pred cis that the next ten years will see California the greatest sugar-producing Stata in the Union with pos- sibly the exception of Louisiana. Tt favorsa repeal of the Hawalian reciprocity treaty, and thinks that our Government should offer a bounty on the consiruction of sugar fac- torfes. The Arrovo Grande Oroc'e states that the Alameda Beet Sugar Company Is desirous of locating a factory in that section—has been fora year or so—but that the subsidy de- manded was not acceptanle to the Arroyo peo- pie. Now, however. there are other parties in the field and they are forced into activity. The Alameda company will be the first in the fleld, if dependence can be put in reports, es its indirect interests there compel prompt ac- tlon. If a factory is established there it must be located on Arroyo Grande Cree, the only stream in that reglon which cau furnish su ffi- cient water. The Santa Rosa Repub ican favored & public reception to Hon. Thomas L. Thompson on his return home from his late diplomatic post at the Brazilian capital. Mr. Thompson is the MOST BEAUTIFUL i ‘{/ (4 ‘\A i W owner of the Santa Rosa Democrat, and the editor of the latter publication, commenting on the voluntary tribute paid by a political adversary, is led to regret any hersh expres- sion which in the heat of partisan or local differences he may have used toward the edi- tor of the Republtean, *for the reason that he does not think the writer of so courteous & no- tice could harbor either of the hateful pas- sions, envy or malice, in his heart.” Extensive improvements have been begun by the Madera Canal Company, which will give Madera an abundant water supply. The Me:cury of that place states that the com- pany intends to build reservoirs to impoand sufficient water for summer irrigation. “In all probabllity two reservoirs will be bullt, one ubove the head of the canal on the Fresno River and the other in the foothills on the same stream. These reservolrs will be the means of saving & vast amount of water which has annuaily gone to wasle in the Fresno River, and which will in future be utilized through the canal and lateral ditches to irri- gate Madera’s broad ana fertilo acres.” Tons of fruit are going to waste in Humboldt County because there is no market to absorb it fresh; apd this fact leads the Eureka Watch- man to urge the speedy adoption of some method of disposing of this product. That publication says: “Both & drier and & can- nery are needed, and Humboldt's unexcelled ruit in the fresn state will make unexcelled fruitin the dry or csnned siate if properly handled. And with such a chance 1o aispose of the crop the area cultivated to frult would be doubled and quedrupled in a few years. Not only can Humboldt eclipse the coast with perfectand luscious fruits, but it must be remembered that her dricd prunes took the first premium at the World’s Exhibition at Chicago; again, when the little cannery at Fortuna was in operation on small fruit and had sent a season’s pack to San Francisco, & leading hotel of that city put in an order to take ull they couid put up for the next season. These consisted of strawberries, raspberies, blackberries, cherries, etc., and were pro- nounced superior to any that had been put into the San Francisco market. With so many points in favor of Humboldt fruits, is it not possible to organize and operate canneries and driers successiully ? NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. Whitehead tor pedoes of Mark I and ITin the British navy are to be destroyed on account of their erratic movements after firing. There are 300 of those torpedoes costing $2500 each, representing a loss of $750,000, and their ae- struction has been ordered so &s to prevent the secret of the mechanism of their balance chamber force becoming known to the public. A first-class boy on the British battle-ship Jupiter wascourtmartialed August 30, charged with absence without leave, and striking the captain of the ship in the face with such force as to knock him to the deck. The court sen- tenced the boy to reteive two dozen cuts with the birch, to serve eighteen months’ impris- onment at hard labor, and then to be dis- missed the service. The enormous power of the latest British twelve-inch wire-wound gun may be realized to some degree from the fact that the shot of 830 pounds fired with & charge of 168 pounds of cordite passed through an 18-inch compound plate, 6 inches of wroueht iron,8 inches of oak and 3 inches of jron. Tne velocity of the ‘shot was over 2300 feet per second. The five investment now open for capital in the United States can be | battle-ships built and building in England for made to pay. We have waited too long for a business revival to be scared of it, now that is coming. General Lee can beiter afford to go back to Cuba than another man could to take his place. He must be inured to snubs by this time, and even phe glassy eye of Weyler has ceased to be a terror. The horned and scaly sea monster that drifted ashore in the Northwest has not been identitied. However, the theory that it is a case of jim-jams lost overboard by a yellow journal representative is not without supporters. The latest “mass” meeting tor the purpose of promoting the culture of monkeys, and selling a little real estate, was marked by the absence of the ‘‘mass.” But to the majority of citizens it was for this reason a very-satisfactory affair. Laurier has been speaking of Oanada’s destiny, and proba- bly he knows as much about it as any man. Yet Launrier did not say a word about annexing New England and New York, a Why this roar of England lest the United States take | scheme that some seething correspondents seem already to Samoa? There is no apparent danger and, anyhow, England has no right to undisturbed monopoly in the matter of taking things. The Southern Pacific babit of smashing its trains through have virtually settled. It would be interesting to know if & young German cofficer did really commit suicide recently after having given the Kaiser a black eye. Also, if he know that suicide was custom- an Oakland electric car seems to be periodical, and maniiests | ary and proper under tke circumstances, why he did not black itself with the regular certainty of the chills in an ague case, both the royal eyes while he was about it, Jepan are supplied with the above-named gun from the Elswick firm. The Chilean first-class torpedo-boat Injeinero Hyatt, built by Yarrow, left Piymouth April 28 and arrived at Taleahuano June 28, All well on board. Sheis one of six of identical dimensions, being 152.5 feet in length, 15.3 feet beam, 7.9 feat draught and 140 tons dis- plac:ment. The engines are of £200 horse- power and the trial speed 27.5 knots, The coal capacity is forty tons. Tae daily average speed on the voyage from Euglind to Chile was 160 miles, and the seaworthiness of crafts of this description is no longer & matter of un- certainty. The Argentine training-ship Presidente Sar- miento, built by the Lairds, at Birkenhead, was floated August 31. She is a very hendsome sailing ship, full-rigged with large spread o: cunvas and has auxiliary steam power guaran- teeing a speed under steam of 13 knots. Tho ship is subdivided imto twenty-four water- tight compartments, the hull sheathed with wood and coppered, and quarters are provided for 400 officers and crew. Bhe is intended for < training and practice ship for naval cadets and seamen. The recent breakdown of the French ar- mored cruiser Bruix, on her trip with President Faure to St. Petersburg, was caused by the breaking of a piston-rud, which n smashed the cylinder-head. No one was hurt and the ship w ble to steam homeward with one engine at the respectable specd of ten knots. Her return was the signal for & furious public LEO DE MERODE, tke newly imported with her beauty > French woman. It is not the beautyof her much as the saintlike expression of her eyes and mouth. This appearance of simplicity and purity is wonderful, and when put into the setting of the mos: gorgeous and striking cos- tumes that Paris modistes can evolve the combination is irresistible. Her mother, & Viennese actress, secured her admission to the operatic corps de baliet in Paris at the age of 13. and never stirred from her side until Cleo then appeared in & quadrille, blazing with diamonds, profusely used in be the daughter of Comte de Merode. she was 15. shoulder knots, on corsage and neck, as if they cost no more than glass beads. ceased to shadow her and became her housekeeper in a sumptuous flat. Mils. though only 20, is of the class of women who set the fashions in Paris. waists, short sleeves, long gloves, belts and sashes, very high, plain chokers and picture hats, Doucet recently built her a neglige girdle with exquisite pink cameos, set in gold and rhiuestone The stuff of the gown was pale pink mousseline de Chinoise, as much finer frames and links. than mousseline de soie as cobweb 18 finer than lace. about the bottow to the knees—and was dotted over the rest of the surface with gold, silk and It was high in the neck, but cut straight across the shoulders like a medieval gown, hung straicht in front, fitted behind, and with' very large drooping sleeves, gathered into the wrists, half bishop and half angel fashion. seed pearls. nd her charming coiffure, is reported to be the most beautiful young woman of Paris. She has velvety brown eves and hair, dazzling teeth. and a tall, slim figure, with broad shoulders, low, small bust and tiny waist—s figure impossible on any but a WOMAN IN PARIS. SEA SEN 0 Jah‘\‘ Paris sensation, who has set Yew York wild features which attracts universal attention, so Mlle. Merode is said to The mother Merode, She affects bebe 1t was embroidered by hand—a border denunciation of the Government, many of the Paris journals calling for the resignation of the Minister of Marine and demanding a gen- eral clearing out of the navy officlals directly and indirecily responsible for the accident to the Bruix, i A collision between the Fritish crulser Phae- ton and torpedo-boat destroyer Trasher oc- curred last month near Plymouth, both ves- sels being on their way to Esquimalt, B. C. The night was dirty and foggy, and the cap- tain of tle Phaeton sigonaled to the Trasher to come up under the lee of the Phaeton for protection. The result was a collision, in which the port side of the Trasher was badly damaged aud a patty officer from the latter vessel was throwan into the water eand drowned. The fiudings of the subsequent court-martial were neglizencs on the part of both the commanding officers, and they were let off with a caution to be more careful in the future. A very large drydock is being completed at Glasgow and is the third built on the land owned by the Glasgow Dock Company. The first was built twenty-one years ago, is 555 feet in length on floor and 72 feet wide ct top atentrance. The second, of later build, is 575 feet on the floor and 67 feet wide at top at entrance, while that now nnder construction Is 880 feet on the floor, 83 feel wide at top and bottom at entrance and has 26 { feet 6 inches of water over the sill. It is bullt partly of brick and concrete, and is arranged with a gate in the middle to permit two steam- ers of 420 and 460 feetlength to be docked | simulianeousiy, if occasion aris:s. All these 3 docks heve been made use of by the Govern- | ment 1n docking such ships &s the Terrible | and several of the largest battleships, and the | docks have been thoroughly te-ted. The third dock will be opened next month. TAKEN AT HER WORD. £he said: “I read you as a bool Oh, happy I, if this be true; For when & matden starts to 100k The pages of & volume tnrough heonly hunts those chavters out ‘Yhat deal with love, and hurries by ‘The passages that are About ‘The clouds that gather in the sky. She seldom reads between the lines, Or cares to catch the inner thought, But with the hero she repines Until the heroine Is caught— ©b, happy I, sweet little maid, 1o have you read me as & book, B h a bran grateful shade, Beside some happy. singing brook. —S. K. K1SER, iu Cieveland Leader, E PERSONAL. Dr. T. M. Todd from Auburn is at the Palace, F. M. Miiler, a Fresno attorney, is at the Lick. G. D. Plato, a merchant of Modesto, is at the Grand. Dr. G. L. simmons of Sacramento is at the Patace. C. W. de Long, & Santa Cruzlawyer, is at the Lick House, G. H. Schiveley, a merchant of Oroville, is at the Grand. Morris C, Greenbaum, a merchant of Seattle, 1s at the Grand. Sheriff U. 8. Gregory of Amador County is at the Grand Hotel. R. P. Niles, a manufacturer from Los Ange- les, isin the city. C. A. Cook, & merchant from Watsonviile, 1s at the Russ House. M. J. Curtin of Sonora is registered at the Cosmopoiitan Hot J. C. Mogh, a grain-dealer from Coluss, is stopping at the Grand. J. A. Northway, a hotel man of Nevada City, 1s & guest at the Grand. 8. W. Doane, ajbusiness man of Healdsburg, is stopping at the Russ. D. A. Lincaster, an insurance man from Sacramento, is in the city. J. Frank Brown, an attorney of Sacramento, is & guest at the California, F. W. Covey, the manager of the Palo Alto stock farm, is at the Grand. F. Copeland, a mloing man from Downfe- ville, is at the Lick House. I. Copeland, & mining man from Downie- ville, is registered at the Lick. Joseph Bryan, an extensive grain grower of Potter Valley, 1s registered at the Russ House. 8. 0. Elliott, a prominent business man of Maderas, Cal., is staying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. C. W. Seiverling of Akron, Ohlo, an exten- sive manufacturer of farming implements, is at the California. Paul Loefler from San Andreas is at the Lick. He is on his way to the Kiondike in the interests of some Eustern persons. MSsm McMurtrie, a Denver contractor, who has been doing some extensive work in the southern part of the State, is registered at the Palace. Tulare are registered at the Lick. They have come here to attend a course of lectures at Cooper Medical College. PRIZE IN EVERY PACKAGE. She climbs upon a streetcar and She takes a smoker's seat; The men ali frown and look askance, And likewise scrape their feet. But quick from out her pocketbook A cigarette she snatches, And says, P.esse, may I have a light? +I—er—1I can’t scratch matches —Civeinnati Commercial-Tribune. made the enemy run to-day,” joyfully exclaimed the Spanish officer, *and we are to be congratulated.” “You did nobly, gallantly. What did you do with the enemy? Capturs them, or did you leave them at large?” “We left him. That's the best part of it. He was at least half a mile behind us when we got back to the city.”’—Truth, Landlady (to shivering lodger)—No, sir, I don’t object to your dining at a restorong, nor | to taking an ’apenny paper, but I must resent your constantabit of locking up your whisky, thereby himplying that me, a clergyman’s daughuter, is prone to larceny.—Punch, Barker—I claim that every woman has the right 1o wear any kind of clothes that she likes. Ifshe wants to appear upon the streets | in bloomers or even in tights that should be her privilege. Dunning—Do you mean to tell me that you would extend this privilege to all women? Backer—Well, to all except members of my own family.—Chieago Daily News. A SCOOPER FROM PETALUMA. Petaluma Courier. The Courier printed the first, only and orig- inal news from Dawson twenty-eight years 8go, the time of the big wind, and its special reports and illnstrations were afterwarc used in Monteith's geographies and Sanders’ spell- ers. It brought down the first specimens of the fauna and flora of that region—the fauna went to Barnum’s show, and the vegetable specimens were the foundation of the Smith- sonian Institution at Milpitas. The matters were written up by Ignatius Donnelly and illustrated by Cruikshank. AGAINST CHINESE SLAVERY. Central San Franclscan. All honor to THE CALL for its fight against the slavery of the Chinese women. That they can be bought and sold for vicious purposes in this civilized city in the enligntened days of the closing nineteenth century is ashame upon our people. We have not enough good, strong Eunglish words at our command to express our horror at the abominable condition that per- mits this evil to exist. Itis rke solemn duty of every moral man and woman in this city to help hold up THE CALL'S arms in this fight. NATIONAL GUARD NOTES Adjutant-General A, W, Barrett Has Again Left the State for the East. Officers Who Have Been Placed on the Retired List—The Jenks Court of Inquiry. Governor J. H. Budd, Commander-.n-Chief ot the National Guard, on the occasion of his visitlast Friday night to the Mechaaies’ Pa- vilion, was accompanied by the foilowing- named members of his staff: Colonel Robert L. Peeler, Colonel rest 8. Chadbourne, Lieutenant-Colonels Abraham Andrews, John 8 Young, Jefferson E. Doolittle, William D, Sanborn, John £. Burgin, Herbert Choyenski, Frank A. Vail, Philip L. Bush, Ritchie L. Dunn and George H. Pippy. Captain D. A. lSmll.h, Adjutant of the Fifth Regiment In- | fantry, also accompanied the party. Orders have been issued for September and October target praccice, and the orders direot tonat the practice shall be by regiment except as to the Fifth Regiment of Infantry and un- attached companies, and at such time and place as the commanding officer shall arrange, That the practice shall be under the super. vmo:; of éhahteapecuve inspectors of rifle practice. Each man will be requi. uniform when shooting. e e The orders are those which have been ex- cted for some time. but in this cit; Kzullks are not with the orders, hllt’lvll]:l: ?lllll‘ lach of aplace to enforce them. The firing regulations require that the practice shall be at 200, 300 and 500 yards, and now that the regulaiions are out the guardsmen are con. fronted with the fact that there is no range Dr. A, L Wilson and Dr. G. G.Shannon of in this city and county in which the re; - tious can be canied out,and that there E:l;o such range across the bay. The rangs at the Presidio is all right as to distances up to g theusand yards. butitis not such as 1o meet the requirements of the National Guard firiy reguiniions. These require thnt the shootin shal at the old styie B.unt target, with which the pits for the usc of the markers have to be in front of the targets. ‘Ahe range y; the Presiaio is fitted up 10 meet the require. ments of the new style silhouette targets, anq these have the pits behind the targets. [, shoot as the National Guardsmen will nave 1o would require an alteration of the Presidio range that would cost about $1000, and it jg doubtful if the military authorities woulq permit any alterations. 5 Al Shell Mouund there can be re-establi the 200 ana the 500-yard ranges, but 1 no opportunity for a 300-yard range v an outlay of considerable money, Whi cwner of the place does not care to mak state of affairs show that those who the new firing regulations did not consider all the conditions, but devis. tain rules and expect that the guardsm. be uble to accommodate themselves to Tae board of officers of the First Regim. fantry, located in this city, have had ber of meetings, at which the regulatio have been discussed, and all are of the oninioy that they have a puzzle which it is impossioi, to solve. ‘They have, however, come to conclusion that they will have target practicy on the 25th anl 27th inst. and it is probatle that they will have to omit the 300-yard prac. tice on the ground that it is ilmpossivieto meet the requirements. 5 Many of tue guardsmen are dissatistied wit the order, in that it prohibits marksmanshi on Sundays. In thiscity the majority of th guardsmen are employed during the w and itis not an easy matter for a great nu ber of them to absent themselves from th employient to attend target practice duris two duys. Heretofore they were permitted practice on Sunday, and that, they say, dil not interfere with toeir duties and created; inconvenience. Itis believed tiat the plication of affairs and the ruie as to Sur will result in & very aueer mess as to the S tember largei practice. The next practice will be in October, to ba followed by practice in January and May next. 'Adjutani-General Barrett et the State last week on another visit East to be absent some time. Quite & number of officers of the old-time National Guard, some dating back to the dayg of 1863, have recently been placed on the re« tired list. Private G. M. Parsons, Company C, Sixth Infantry, has been appotnted orderly on the statl of the commander-in-chief. Tne following officers have been placed o the retired list: Captain E. G. Eisen, Captain S. J. Ruddell, Lieutenants J. S. Mack, T. A, Evans and K. P. Guinan. ; F. S. Potty who recently resigned as lieu- tenant-colonel and paymaster on the staff of the me jor-general, has been retirad with the rank of major, which rank he beld at the time he was placed on the retired list iu 1895, The warrants for funds to meet the expenses of the recent camps Wil be issued this week, 80 it 15 announced. E. E. Bertrana of the First Infantry hag asked 1o be assigned to the Sanitary Corps. Corporal W. C. Faull of the Signal Corps of the Second Brigude has at his own request been on account of_ill health, reduced to the renks and Private H. F. Gould has been promoied to fill the vacanc The court of inquiry called for by Captain Jenks of Troop A, First Cavalry, will meet to- morrow to i quire into the expenditure of money allowed him by the State for the keep of horses. > The Naval Militia. Special orders from division headquarters difect that Lieutenant E. B, Otto shall preside atan election to be held on the dth of October at Eureks, Humboldt County, for ensign of the dtvision located there. Also that Lieutenant Barrere preside at an election to be held next Tuesday for lieuten- ant, junior grade of the First Division of the navai division. The drill for next Tuesday for the naval mi- litia at this port will include fixing bayonets with the swinging swivel bayonet exercise, particularly the position of guard, loading and firing and drill in close order. The naval militis of this port was visited 1ast week by the paymaster of the naval mili- tia of Philadelphia, who, in conversation with Captain Turser, complimented him on the di- visions here, and he_also seid that San_Fran- cisco is tar ahend of Philadeiphia as to Hotch- Kiss guns. At Philadelphia the naval militia, he said, has postession of a ship that is housed over, and that officers and men have quariers. 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Miss Suzy Tracy, the cooking demonstrator in the Model Kitchen at the Mechanics' Fair, says = P %Tn the practice of my pro- fession as a teacher of cooke ery I have tried the different brands of baking powder, and I find that Royal Bak- ing Powder gives the best satisfaction.” I can accoms plish the best results with a smaller quantity of Royal Baking Powder than of any other kind, and I find # '/ always to be perfectly unie form in its action.”