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6 | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1897. The FR;B;Y B E 5 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address A PUBLICATION OFFICE ..Market and Third. Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS. 217 to 221 Stevenson stree Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for i5 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.. One yzar, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE . 908 Broadway Eastcrn Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE... ...Room IS8, World Building il Communications to WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until 5:30 o'clock. 239 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 MoAllister street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until 9o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 143 Nint street; open until9 o'clock, i505 Polk street; open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS, Baldwin—"The Juckli uational Match.~ 11 Left Behind Me.” ele Tom’s Cabin.” r Goose.” Tivol Orpheum—V: The Chute: Boston Ladtes’ Military Band. 2 Orchestra, an-Hebrew Opera Ccmpany, Saturday AUCTION SALES. By 5.Watkins & Cc and Harrison streets, By Chas. Levy & C December 31, Horses, at Twelfth 3 ay, December 31 Grocery Store, @ JURIST AND DIPLOMAT. at 113 Market street, UDGE WOFFORD of Kansas City may not as QJ a jurist have obtained a wide fame, but he de- serves well of his fellow men, and any laurel wreath looking about for a location would do wisely to find a resting place upon the Wofford brow. It has remained for this ornament of the bench to sub- due the belligerent lawyer, tame him to the tranquil docility of the meek-eyed kine. No more the legal light in the presence of Wofford radiates heat, hisses imprecations through set teeth and waves a clenched fist at the opposing counsel. Not much he doesn't. Recently two legal gentlemen arguing a case be- came so warm under their respective collars that they fairly sizzled. They made known to the Judge that their cne desire was to clean the floor of his department, each to use the frayed and disintegrating form of the other as a mop. And the Judge fell right into the scheme. The plan struck him as a good one and he freely gave his assent. Then and there the war ended. No cooing dove ever uttered note more gentle than those lawyers as they explained in digai- fied language that there existed between wntual esteem of the finest variety. Thus were they tamed. The idea that they were to be taken seriously had never entered their minds. But the next who desire to fight and back down when the cpportunity is accorded will plainly be in con- tempt. them a THE MINERS AND THE JUBILEE. MONG the mining counties the ardor of the movement for the celebration of the Golden less than in this city. The press of those counties gives a Jarge amount of space to reports of all pro- prise, and in every instance the tone of the reports shows a genuine and cordial sympathy with the =7 1t is natural that this should be so. The enterprise appeals to the mining counties by both sentimental of those counties that traditions of the argonauts are most cherished and their memory most honored. It lyto derive direct benefitsfroman exposition devoted to the double object of attracting the attention of the State and exhibiting the best appliances and methods for carrying on’ the industry under all The time for making preparations for the exhibit is short, but such is the activity displaved in the men that there is every assurance all wiil be in readi- uness when the day comes to open the fair and show pute as the world’s most golden land. Tt is certain the display will be the most complete-cver made of fornia county having an¥ mining industry to boast ot will be lacking from the grand exhibit. mining counties will soon have an effect in stimulat- ing the remaining counties of the State. Al Cali- designed to commemorate the beginning of her true industrial development. A sense of local benefits to fied, should prompt Californians of all sections to work for the success of an enterprise of such magni- be attended by the largest gathering of visitors from the East that ever assembled in California on a to exhibit their contrasted advantages and varied resources will be the most profitable the State has /fl Jubilee and the mining exposition is hardly ceedings on the part of the promoters of the enter- movement. and business considerations. It is among the people is alsothe people of those counties who are most like- capitalists and mining men to the mineral wealth of known conditions. work by the more energetic and progressive mining the world that California can stil! maintain her re- the mineral 1esources of the great West. and no Cali- It cannot be doubted that the ardor shown by the fornia should be fitly represented at an exposition be gained, as well as State patriotism to be grati- tude as this. It is well assured the exposition will single occasion, and the opportunity for all districts known. Tangled in the maze of its own falschoods, the Examiner flounders hopeless. It makes, however, the point that The Call representative, Hall Hoffman, did not go to Dawson. This is true. Mr. Wall was sent there. Mr. Hoffman did not go becanse his services were needed at another point. Nobody cver claimed that he had gone to Dawson. But at the place where he is stationed Hoffman has been valuable in the good work of forwarding news and exposing Examiner fakes. Before accepting the decision of Special Commis- sioner-Pugilist-Montana: Kid-Intrepid Egan as to kis encounter with Father Time an incredulous re- public would like a word from the referee. And, alas for the ycllow fellows! Wyatt Earp was not there to give the sort of word needed to lift the Ex- aminer out of the hole When Senator Perkins admits thut annexation is dead it would seem time for the promoters of the scheme to begin pricing mourning goods. DECEMBER 81, 1897 | | | Hawaii with our flag, it should be known. | been acquitted, they ought to N such a grave matter as the destruction of the l autonomy of a nation, the slaughter of its sov- ercignty and its absorption by another power, it is needful that there be a distinct understanding, in advance, of all the conditions of the act. We see W. S. LEAké: Manager. !in Ireland and Scotland an example of what may fol- | low the reckless surrender of autonomy and what may resuit from a careful consideration of every question affecting the interests of the parties to the transaction: The crowns of Scotland and Engla:d were merged by the succession of James VI of Scotland to Eliza- beth, becoming James I of England, But Scotland retained her autonomy, her separate parliament, her separate church, budget and every power and au- thority affecting the material interests of her people. In 1701 she surrendered all this by making a parlia- mentary union with England. But with characteristic Scotch prudence her statesmen first drove a hard bar- kain with England in reference to the materialities of the Scotch people. So it came to pass that the Lon- don merchants and Eunglish financiers objected to the union at all and long complained that the Scotch got far more than they gave away. The people have remained contented subjects of the British empire, loyal to the crown, because they got an equivalent for the surrender of parliamentary independence. [reland, on the other hand, was by conquest and force merged in the British crown, but had suc- ceeded in maintaining parliamentary independence. The Irish revenues for the benefit of the British crown were proposed in the Irish parliament as a regular budget and might be refused, reduced or postponed. Grattan took advantage of this in 1783 and led the parliament to refuse to vote the budget until the crown guaranteed reforms which he, a Protestant, demanded in behalf of his Catholic fellow country- men. Secventcen years later there met in the same hall an Irish parliament, which for a bribe of £15,- ©00,000 sold the parliamentary independence of their country to Great Britain, and the crime was com- mitted in such haste that none of the advantageous guarantees secured by Scotland were even proposed. The result has been commercial dependence, finan- cial weakness, industrial paralysis for Ireland in con- trast with Scotch prosperity. The lesson is useful in considering the Hawaiian case. What sort of government will we give the islands if we take them? Their industries and revenue de- pend upon a form of labor obnoxious to our people and opposed to our interests: The planters who em- ploy this labor and who cannot survive without it are the power behind annexation. They have sus- tained Dole. They have for four years sophisticated the news sent out from the islands. They have paid the cost of excursions to Honolulu by the past mas- ters of American jingoism. They have persuaded the American newspapers which have janussed on this question. They have organized the Washington lobby which misrepresents the feeling of this coast. Now, if they have a bargain with anybody in this country by which our labor laws are not to go to Such bar- gains under our system of government must be car- ried out by Congress, but that body cannot record a finality. Under our government the only approach to a finality is judicial, not legislative nor executive. What one Congress does another can undo. What cne President adopts another may reject. An examination of House executive document 1, part I, pages 975-76, shows the testimony of a good witness as to what the planters expect. Asked— “Is it your impression that the calculation of all Hawaiian sugar planters who favor annexation the United States will modify their laws against con- i tract labor so that a system of contract labor can be maintained in the islands?”’ The planter answered: “I would not say contract labor. They say we may have to give that up, but we can get all the labor we want from Japan.” “How?” “Well, we can send an agent there with money and he can send lzbor to Hawaii, and when it is here we can make contracts.” “Do the planters think in that way to get around the laws of the United States?” “Yes, we think we can get around the laws that way.” Whereupon President Dole said: “I have a be- lief that the United States will give us a separate law so that we can get laborers here.” Now, on what is that belief based? Who is promising such a thing, and who is to be cheated? White labor in the United States or the coolie hiring planters of Hawaii? Three men brought into port in irons under charge of having attempted to burn the vessel on which they sailed have recovered wages for the time they spent in the unpleasant condition of prisoners. It would seem to the unbiased landsman that, having recover something more. Nobody likes to be called a criminal, espe- cially if the charge involve that of being also a fool, and men who would fire a vessel which formed the only protecticn between themselyes and the bottom of the Arctic Ocean would be as thorough-going fools as ever wore straitjackets in a padded cell. At last the postal savings idea seems in a way to become popular. It has been honored by the stated disapproval of the New York bankers, who declare that so many banks exist that the business is r.o longer profitable. The politeness of Americans is manifest at this juncture through the circum- stance that they have uniformly refrained from greeting this expression of opinion by crying “Rats!” There is hardly a probability that Hoff has been guilty of all the crimes whose perpetrators have gone for a decade undiscovered. It is not a reasonable supposition that he has been the only bad man loose in the community during these years. To convict him of one offense will be sufficient, but the scape- goat business needs to be eliminated from detective work. e There does not seem to be any good reason for the powers fighting for more territory. They each have now more than it is possible for them to take care of properly. They are showing the same elevated spirit that actuates a yellow dog stuffed to the muz- zle, and yet determined to have the brindle dog's bone. R A A “social light” has vulgarly skipped from At- lenta, taking with him $14,000 belonging to some- body else, presumably not an illuminant of functions. There must be some peril attached to being a “social light,” albeit the duties of that position are obscure, so many social lights go out suddenly. It would seem that Juror Smyth’s contempt case had been constructed for the purpose of being knocked down so that the valuable ruins might be utilized A% that | {SPATCHES from New York are to the D effect that a canvass of the presidents of prominent banking institutions in that city has disclosed the fact that most of them are opposed to the proposed postal bank system. Very few of them, it is said, were willing to express opinions for publication, but most of them virtually agreed with a statement of President Mason oi the Bank of New York, that the country possesses already all the banking accommodation it needs. Since the bankers did not definitely express oppo- sition to the postal bank scheme, it may be doubted whether the conclusion drawn by the canvasser that all of them are antagonistic is justified. On an issue of this kind there is a considerable difference between a noncommittal attitude and that of hostil- ity. The men who are doubtful of the wisdom of the measure because on first consideration they do not see how it could be made practicable under our Gov- ernment may become firm supporters of it if the bill submitted to Congress proves to be well devised. The statement that the country bas all the banking accommodation it needs could hardly have been seriously advanced by a banker having gelations with the nation at large. Only in the cities and the more populous and wealthy sections of the provinces are banking facilities adequate to the requirements of the people. In many parts of the Union there are vast areas of country in which there are no banking ac- commodations at all. The result of this is that money becomes congested in the financial centers while out- lying districts have not the means of carrying on their industrial and commercial development except under terms too onerous to be profitable. Up to this time no objection of an unanswerable character has been made to the measure. On the other hand, the arguments for it set forth by the Postmaster-General remains unassailable. Postal banks will draw to the channels of trade large amounts of money now hoarded because of a lack of confidence in private banks. They will incite to thrift and saving among people of small means and to that extent improve the moral and material con- dition of the people. They will carry banking fa- cilities to all parts of the Union and give residents of remote districts something of an equality with those of the cities or more populous counties. These benefits are certainly of sufficient impor- tance to make it worth while trying to attain them. The trial, moreover, will not be a rash and unheard of experiment. Postal savings banks exist in most of the civilized nations of the earth and have not proven injurious to private banks or to any other industry of the community. On the contrary, they have been advantageous to bankers as well as to cthers by increasing the amount of cash available for business. What has proven itself so beneficial else- where is hardly likely to be a total failure in America, and for that rcason we hesitate to believe the bankers of New York have been so unanimous in opposing the measure as has Leen representcd by the recent dispatches. l the Examiner interprets the result of Monday’s election as an indorsement of its $30,000 “adver- tising” contract with the Southern Pacific Company. Its assumption of the airs of a conqueror, whose will WILL IT GET THERE? T is evident to the most superficial observer that | must now be law, is plainly founded upon an unc- tuous consciousness that the people of San Francisco have formally declared by ballot in favor of restoring it to the payroll from which it was struck by Mr. Huntington when, in 1804, while endeavoring to get an increase of subsidy, it went over to the railroad strikers. It is also evident that the famous boodler does not intend to neglect the advantage it assumes to have obtained. With the experienced eye of a practiced journalistic brigand it has selected street railway franchises as the weak spot in the ramparts of the corporation treasuries. It knows that during the next few years many of the lines owned by the Mar- ket street company will be compelled to apply to the Board of Supervisors for an extension of their privileges. A renewal of these franchises will be worth a great deal of money to the corporation, and if the boodle sheet can tie them up in the charter with a strong rope it knows that it can obtain a very large “advertising” contract for selling out at come subsequent time. As a preliminary to its campaign the cunning sheet announces that no one except itself is going to be permitted to advise the Freeholders in charter matters. The reason it gives isthatanyadvicetendered by the other papers is sure to proceed from corpor- ation sources. But we doubt whether the Frechold- ers elect will take the view of their duties foreshad- owed by the Mission street felon. Of course it would greatly comfort that journal to obtain from the Southern Pacific another $30,000 “advertising™ contract, and it might be agreeable for a while to snbstitute editorial silence for the presevt acri- monious policy. But it is extremely probable that the Freeholders elect, whatever interpretation may be placed upon the result of Monday's election by the journalistic skirmisher, will decline to aid it in getting back upon the railroad payroll. Probably they will be able to protect the public interest in the new charter without providing the Examiner with a chance to sell it out at the general election. A provision in that instrument that all franchises now in existence and the property attached to them shall become the property of the city upon their ex- piration, which is advocated by the Mission street sheet, might force a $100,000 “advertising” contract out of the Southern Pacific, payable cash down, in- stead of a $30,000 document, extending over thirty months, but it cannot be contended that in electing the Freeholders the people intended they should create any such opportunity for the boodle organ. Several weeks will elapse before Spain will an- swer the latest note of this Government. In the meantime various correspondents are formulating s¢ many replies that Spain will have difficulty in saying anything new when she shall get ready. e s g The legal idea that the guilt of a prisoner is a matter of no consequence but the method of deter- mining it the only thing to be considered is shared in by the prisoner. Other than this, it is for the present pining for indorsement. Sacramento ladies are indignant because they have been induced to buy spurious lottery tickets. Per- haps it will comfort them in a measure to realize that this sort of lottery ticket is apt to be as good as any other. : The recent series of bull fights given in Mexico was not entirely successful. It is true that the bulls ‘were killed and a lot of horses torn open, to the joy of the populace, but the head matador was merely wounded. Good Things in Next Sunday’s Call. EXT Sunday’s edition of The Call, like the famous sack of Santa Claus, will contain lots of good things. The massacres of German mis- sionaries by the Chinese is the alleged excuse of that nation for seizing a large slice of China’s territory. In next Sunday’'s Call a missionary who barely escaped being massacred by an infuri- Touching food, perhaps you don't know it, but sea weed in several forms is a coming dish on a good many menus. People inclined to obesity will get a valuable hint in this article and for that reason alone they ought to read it. Sea serpents are about to be robbad of some of their most palatable dishes. Young Joseph Leiter of Chicago has had a remarkable career in piling up millions this last year, but a man has died recently beside whom he is a novice. Read of the glittering career of this juggler of fortunes and you will get a tip on how other people make millions, which is the next thing to pil- ing up a fortune yourself. The bane of the big stores is the shoplifter. To what tricks do these adept thieves resort in plying their trade? You will find the most cunning ones fully described in next Sunday’s Call. And if you would like to read a thril- ated Chinese mob will relate his thrill- ing experiences. Some famous wrecks have occurred about the Golden Gate, but the novel and hazardous experience of being| picked up by a giant wave and almost | thrown down the mouth of the steam | siren that was warning helpless ves- sels off shore happens to very few sea | captains. The exciting experience of that captain and of several pilots and lookouts in the most notable storms along the coast are all graphically told in next Sunday’s Call.’ ‘When you are at breakfastdoesitever | ling tale there is the story of how a French sailor, after firing on his native town as ordered by the admiral, de- serted, climbed an almost inaccessible rock, and, aided by his sweetheart, de- fied the whole French fleet. How he treated a flag of truce and got out of his trouble is not “another story” this time, but is set forth in stirring detail. Name “the” books of the year if you can? If you cannot, you will find occur to you what remarkable things | the list in next Sunday‘s_Cnll, and the you might see by turning an X ray on | why and wherefore of their success and the ingredients of scme of the dishes | literary standing. before you? Does it ever oceur to you Turn a few pages and you will run that the food adulterations would | across many other good things in a stand out like red paint cn a white | magazine way, l;n‘dh aga;he best and wall. 0ok in next Sunday’s Call and | brightest news o e V. : y:u wfil :ee what revelations the X | If you don’t take The Cal! regulariy, ray makes on some of the things you | try one next Sunday and sec how you eat daily. like it. THE LIBRARY SYSTEM OF CALIFORNIA. SECOND PAPER. Visitors to the British Museum may be shown the oldest books in the world— v] o on of a few Egyptian papyri. ““;‘}:::ce'?b:glt(‘s'flol burned clay, dating 667 B. C., constitute a portion of the old- est library extant. In one respect they have served as a model for succeod‘ing generations of men to the present time in that, not being portable, they must .h._ch had a situs; doubtless they remained in their earliest location till removed by the curiosity hunters of the current century. And thus during the long intervals of time between these periods the library has served the purpose of conserving the. stores of knowledge by gathering in one spot the treasures of learning, where they were accessible to the few. The unchanging thought of the centuries has been that the library must be a stationary institution, not divisible into portions for wider use, and that the people must individually go to it, regardless of the cost of time or money, if they would gain its advantages. But a better day has dawned with the discovery that the library may go to the people, that the distant hamlet on the prairie, or in the stillness of the mountain side, may be supplied with books, measureably well, if not amply, as compared with the privileges of the city. And so the traveling library has come into being to carry its instruction and helpful- ness to any desired point. The plan is a simple one; substantial book-cases con- taining from thirty to a hundred carefully selected \‘olumw being sent out on ap- plication to some central authority—a State commission, State library, association or individual, to localities destitute of a library—or_even to existing Itbraries needing such special help. They usually pass directly to local associa- tions of twenty taxpayers, who appoint a librarian to circulate and care for the books and forward them at the expiration of the allotted three or four months. With the books are sometimes included old issues of magazines, children's periodi- cals and plctures, which may be retained in the neighborhood. The books are free to the use of all applicants approved by the local librarian, the association holding itself responsible for their safety—giving bonds when the libraries are owned by the State—so that the only expense accruing- to the users is the item of transportation. For fully two score of years the American Seaman’s circulation of traveling libraries on a large scale as a department of the public library system. In that State the supervisory care of the free public libraries is given to the Board of Regents of the State University, a sum of $25,000 being an- nually placed at their disposal for the support and enlargement of said libraries. The books for the traveling libraries are taken from the duplicate department of the State library, some of them being devoted to special subjeets, while the major- ity are of varled selection, and are sent chiefly to university extension centers, local libraries, women'’s clubs and granges. Several hundred traveling libraries are now passing from place to place in the Empire State. The-next State to take up this good work was Michigan, which in 1895 appropriated $2500 for traveling libraries of fifty volumes each, to be dispatched from the State library. Some two score libraries are now in circulation, going ex- clusively to small towns and farming communities, and, as the State Librarian re- cently reports, “with results exceeding the expectations of the projectors of the movement.” Towa followed these examples in 1896 by appropriating $4000 for traveling lib- raries, to be ‘under the charge of the State Librarian. Fifty librarles were pre- pared for use, when their issue was prevented for a time by unfriendly litigation in the form of a court injunction. But it has been the good fortune of Wisconsin to exhibit a phase of interest in this practical philanthropy hitherto unexampled. The first step of this State in this advance movement was begun in 1585 by the statute creating a library commission, with an appropriation of $500 per annum for clerical expenses. No funds, however, were provided for the inauguration of the traveling library plan; hence the Hon. J. H. Stout of Menominee, realizing the emergency and the exceeding value of the work, came forward with an offer to the State commission to defray the entire expense of sending out sixteen libraries, but with the condition that they were to circulate exclusively in Dunn County. Their reception was so gratifying that Senator Stout has since added ten more libraries, and even later has increased the number to thirty-six. This example has since been emulated by J. D. Witter of Grand Rapids, Wis.,, who has placed some twenty-five libraries in active use in Wood County. Other individuals and asso- ciations have concluded to have a share in such enterprises; so that at the present time over 109 traveling libraries are in use in Northern Wisconsin, the direct and indirect outcome of the gift of Mr. Stout in initiating the movement. This new exponent of library progress, the traveling library, is worthy of the most careful consideration of the people of California. its advantages are many; its defects are few. It presupposes the dedication of weaith by the State or by the individual to the public weal. It takes up the work of educating the boys and girls of the State, whose opportunities for gratifying the hunger for books aroused by their studies are necessarily limited, and assists them in making education a life-work. a constant enrichment of their own, and through them, of others’ lives. Py bringing before them the best literature of all ages, in all departments, it will ald the displacement of the trashy novelette and the flash papers which unfor- tunately are to be found in such profusion in the towns and villages of this State. The traveling library comes very close to the people, for, in process of time, it may enter every town and hamlet on the coast. Does any city dwellet doubt the exist- ence of a deep-seated craving for good books in a very large number of families living in the canyons, the valleys and the mountainsides of California? If so, let him visit their firesides and note the barrenness of their book-shelves, the utter absence of anything new ministering to intellectual life, save a newspaper or a stray periodical. Then let him offer the use of a few good books and note the shy- ness with whieh the proposal is recelved. The truth is that new books are so much of a rarity, either in the household or away from it, that a formal introduction is almost necessary for the individual. Remember also that hundreds or thousands of California’s excellent families were brought up in the East, where books of their own and those of the library were part of their dally lives; that distance from book stores—if not always the means—prevents them from keeping in touch with the world of thought through books. The traveling library confers a pronounced bene- fit upon the communities it visits—aside from its direct measureless advantages—in that it so often stimulates to the organization of a home library. The history of this new development is so prolific of these examples that it is only needful to mention the frequency of the accomplishment. No intelligent community of fair financial ability will relinquish a public library maintained upon the indispensable basis of frequent refewal of reading matter. The traveling library is peculiarly adapted to the wants of California because of the topography of the State, and also because of the widely scattered centers of its material interests; its little hamlets being the focal points of near and dist- ant fruit ranches, logging and mining camps—almost Innumerable. Again it will be specially serviceable for the reason that a large proportion of the small places in the State are not incorporated. Lacking the power to tax lo- cally for the support of a fixed library, the small towns will be obliged to depend for the present upon the visits of a lbravy instead of its permanent abode with them. Still, in the 117 incorporated towns and cities within the limits of this State, the provisions of the general library law will receive more attention as soon as public sentiment and sympathy are aroused to the importance of more amply pro- viding for the mental wants of the inhabitants. The Library Assoclation of Central California, organized in San Francisco, has a plan before it for putting into use fifty traveling libraries, and at a recent meeting passed the following resolution : Resolved, That it is the sense of this meeting of the Library Association of Central California, that a system of traveling libraries is essential to the diffusion oi knowledge throughout the State and the promotion of the welfare of its citizens. That we heartily indorse the establishment of such libraries and pledge the sup- port of this association to the same. The day of inauguration of this beneficent force in our midst will mark a new in California’s intellectual life. The expressive motto of the parent library association—the Association—will the. be exemplified, “to provide the best mm::n :fietfiel;':,',:‘;{ number, &t the least cost.” J. C. ROWELL, President Library Assoclation of Central California. library | | mists common WHAT DOLE EXPECTS. POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS. e Sy ‘ George W. Kirkman, U. 8. A, 1s at the California. Judge J. M. Walling of Nevada City is at the Russ. E. O. Miller, a lawyer of Visalla, is a guest at the Lick. Dr. W. M. Wheeler, U. 8. N., is a guest at the California. H. F. Hardinge, a mining man of Denver, is at the Palace. S. Migliavacea, a vineyardist and wine- maker of Napa, is at the Baldwin. Ex-Congressman T. J. Geary of Santa Rosa is a recent arrival at the LleA. Morris Michael, a merchant of Wood- land, is among the guests at the Grand. M. J. Moloney, a merchant of St. Joseph, Mo., is registered at the Palace. M. P. Stein, the Stockton merchant, is at the Baldwin, accompanied by Mrs. Stein. J. A. Stagg, a tobacco merchant of Dunham, N. C., is a recent arrival at the Palace. % ofessor” J. M. Woods., the blind violinist, is at the Russ registered from Eimira. F. B. Mallory of the Hotel Ramona of Los Angeles is among the arrivals at the Baldwin. Dr. Little of Melbourne. Australia, ar- rived at the Occidental last night on his way home. H. Petrey, a school principal of Livermore, is making the Russ his tem- porary home. Dr. Messman of Milwaukee and Dr. Messman of Portland are guests together at the Palace. J. Wilde, agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Philadelphia, arrived at the Palace yesterday. District Attorney Carl E. Lindsay _ot Santa Cruz County is making a brief visit at the Grand. H. Cam Lucas and his partner, A. E. McGlen, merchants of Japan, are among the guests at the Palace. B. H. Upham, proprietor of the Glo- rieta vineyard, near Martinez, is one of the late arrivals at the Lick. M. Biggs Jr., a resident of Oroville, who has extensive interests in that part of the State, is at the Grand. Baron J. H. von Schroeder and his brother, Baron von Schroeder, are mak- ing a short stay at the Palace. George H. Maxwell, a lawyer of So- noma, accompanied by Mrs. Maxwell, arrived yesterday at the Grand. Charles Dumphy of San Mateo, who won the gentlemen’s race yesterday at Ingleside, is a guest at the Palace. George A. Sturtevant, an official of Mendocino County, is in town from Ukiah and has a room at the Grand. George Crocker left here last night for New York on official business connected with the Southérn Pacific Railroad Com- pany. He said that he would be absent three weeks. Among the arrivals yesterday at the Occidental were Mrs. J. R. Burnham, wife of J. R. Burnham, a wealthy resi- dent of Portland, Or., and her daughter, Miss Lucretie Burnham. They have come here to spend the winter. Henry C. Ash of Skaguay, Alaska, who went through here some weeks since on his way East to interest capital in a Skaguay transportation project in which he is specially concerned, returned last night and is again at the Occidental, but will soon go north. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Deec. 80.—Captain W. C. 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