The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 4, 1898, Page 6

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1898. The TUESDAY........ _.JANUARY 4, 1898 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts. S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS. ..2I7 to 221 Stevenson stres Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND S8UNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. One vear, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE ... 908 Broadway Enstern Represcntative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE.......... Room 188, World Building ‘WASHINGTON (D.C. OFFICE ......cccuvuuun Riggs House €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street: open untll 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 Misslon streets; open until 9o'clock. 25I8 Mission street; opep until 9 o'cloc! 143 Ninth street: open untll9 o'clock, 1505 Polk stre open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—"The Henrfetta.” California—Song and Lecture Recitals, Thursday evening. Columbia—“At Gay Coney Island.” Aleazar- “The Girl [ Left Behind Me.” 's—*The District Fair.” ‘Mother Goose.” —Vaudeville. e Tbalia German-Hebrew Opera Co., to-morrow night The Chutes—Vaudeville. Oberon—Cosmopolitan Orchestra. Ingleside Track—Races to-day. Olympia—Stark's Vienna Orchestra. AUCTION SALES. By Frank W. Butterfield—This day, January 4 Furniture. 8t 843 Ellis street, at 11 o'clock. e—Friday, January 7, Horses, at 2018 Mis- Ck. Monday, January 10, Horses, at corner Van By Klip & Co.—! t 11 o'clocl Nees avenue, THE DUTIFUL SERVANT'S REWARD: VERY housekeeper has at times pined over E the difficulty of getting proper servants. More than one mistress of a home has ap- proached her kitchen with foreboding akin to fear lest the queen of that department either bounce her out or, indignant at the intrusion, bounce out her- self, leaving the sink full of dishes, the floor un- swept and a batch of bread scorching in the oven. Now Maggie Doherty was not this sort of a ser- vant. She worked on a lonely ranch in the foot- hills. No clamor for more nights off was ever heard from Maggie. With never a plaint she boiled the potatoes, fried the bacon, washed the clothes, and every night retired with the consciousness of work well done. What was the result? Maggie has just fallen heir to $27, We not only hasten to congratulate her, but to call to the attention of servant girls generally the value of attending to the | duties of their responsible positions. When has any servant who devoted her time to making life a bur- den to the heads of the house fallen heir to $27,000? Never. We make the reply with confidence. B S, A LESSON FOR WAGE EARNERS. Y reason of the great and rapidly growing | competition in the Southern States the cot- | ton manufacturers of New England have bLeen | forced to begin the present year by a sweeping re- duction in the rate of wages paid to their opera- tives. Only the stress of dire necessity has driven them to take this step at the opening of a year which promises in other industries to be so pros- perous, and the event affords to wage earners object lesson which even the dullest cannot mis- iake. Wages have been reduced among the industricus and trained operatives of the great mills of New England because of the lower wages paid in the South. The Southern wage earner works for low wages in the cotton mills, and the Northesn wage earner must accept wages nearly as lIow or the mill in which he works will cease to be profitable. It is the old story of the ruinous effect of cheap labor upon all high-priced labor with which it comes into competition. The cotton manufacturers of New England have many advantages over those of the South. They have larger plants, larger working capital, more intelligent workingmen, better transportation facil- ities, more experience in business, more settled habits of thrift and industry and a more compre- hensive knowledge of the markets to be supplied. The Southern manufacturers have but one advan- tage, that of cheap labor, but it has proven suffi- cient to overcome all the others. Where there is cheap labor the mill industry is rapidly extending, but in New England either the mills are being closed or wages are being reduced. From the lesson taught by this experience of a great industry exposed to a comparatively feeble competition of cheap labor we can readily perceive what would have happened to all the industries of the nation had the free traders succeeded in their efforts to enact a genuine free trade tariff and ex- posed them to the wholesale competition of the cheap labor of the world. The nuin would have been overwhelming and almost universal. The tariff issue is supposed to be out of politics and it is to be hoped the supposition is well founded. Our generation has had one experience with free trade tariff tinkers and is hardly likely to need another. Nevertheless the value of protection to the wage earners of the country cannot be too often repeated. We have competition enough iIn this country without inviting that of the world at large. We can reasonably hope to raise the standard of Southern wages to a point of equality with that of the North and thus in the end restore the possibility of good wages in the cotton industry throughout the coun- try, but we cannot expect to accomplish so much for all the cheap labor countries of the earth. High wages and prosperity are the children of protec- tion, and we must maintain the mother if we would have the offspring. an The San Diego doctor who has sued for $10,000 as a fee for having soothed the last days of a dying man will strike the general observer as placing an immodest estimate upon the value of his com- panionship. It is sweet of course to be escorted to the gates of death by a physician, but at the figure quoted the citizen of ordinary means will recognize the stern necessity of going it alone, and though perhaps tardily, will get there just the same. —_—— Addressing the prisoners at San Quentin Suaday an evangelist remarked that there are many worse places, which is even so. Prisoners seldom attempt to break out of San Quentin, but omce out their efforts to break in have been frantic enough to at- tract considerable attention. . ..wssccmimo = PORTUGUESE IN HAWwAIl “YT HERE is more than one complication to fol- rlowannexalion of Hawaii,and the less the pros- pect of success of the scheme the less the dan- ger of what may follow. There is a large Portuguese population in the islands. They are refused the ballot by Mr. Dole’s oligarchy, and are, like the natives, as voiceless in the affairs of that gentleman’s “republic” as if they were subjects of the Shah. But if Hawaii become part of the United States these tropical Portuguese will become citizens. If this did not follow the change of sovereignty, as was the case when Loui- siana became ours, they cannot be refused citizen- ship if they apply for it, because we have a treaty’ of expatriation with Portugal which gives them that right. ‘When they become citizens they will control the islands. They are all natives of the Azores Islands and carry a dash of Moorish blood, which gives them endurance under tropical conditions of climate. In their native islands the humidity so multiplies the heat that they are done to a turn for the enjoy- ment of a drier tropical climate. They stand Hawaii well and their young reach a healthy maturity there, which is not the rule with Anglo-Saxons. If the islands are annexed what are we going to do with these people? If they vote they will con- trol the politics of Hawaii. If we refuse them the ballot what answer can we give Portugal in view of our treaties with her? It is the singular fate of annexation to bristle with costly controversies and with that form of foreign complications against which we were warned by Washington and Jefferson. In view of the proposed violation of our own constitution, the despoiled birthright of the Hawaiians, the desertion and reversal of our national policy and the confes- sion that our professions of respect for the rights of war are a lie, if we take Hawaii off Dole’s hands and pay its debts, it is among the felicitations of the new year that we have the assurance of Senator Perkins that the annexation treaty is doomed and the joint resolution is yoked with it in certain re- pudiation and defeat. THE CIVIL SERVICE DEBATE. N IVIL service is expected to be the first sub- (,J ject the House of Representatives will take up when it assembles for business this week. According to arrangements made before the ad- journment for the holidays full time is to be given for an elaborate discussion of the issue in all its phases. The debate is certain to be lively and can- not fail to be instructive as well as interesting to the public. The demand for a change in regulations of the civil service is not a party measure. It does not come from a desire on the part of victorious Re- publicans to obtain-the offices Grover Cleveland bestowed on his cuckoos and mugwumps. Men of all parties who have had experience in the practi- cal operation of the existing system have perceived serious evils in it that must be remedied in order to render the service thoroughly efficient.. When the vote is taken Democrats as well as Republicans will be found voting on the side of amendment and reform. For some time past the affairs of the civil service have been under investigatioft. Telegraphic reports of evidence given before the investigating commit- tee have made known the fact that heads of depart- ments are dissatisfied with many features of the present regulations, but the full extent of the de- fects complained of have not yet been made public. That will be done during the coming debate. Re- ports from Washington announce that the oppo- nents of the system intend to cover the whole question and will develop and exploit some very in- teresting facts. In his message to Congress last December the President clearly intimated that in his judgment some change is necessary in the regulations under which the civil service is now admimtstered. While giving a general commendation to the law, he said: “Much of course still remains to be accomplished before the system can be made reasonably perfect for our needs. There are places now in the clas- sified service which ought to be exempt, and others unclassified may be properly included.” This statement is in strict accord with the opinion of men of experience in the service, and with that of all citizens who have given the subject an intelli- gent and serious consideration. It is, in fact, full time for the issue to be taken up and revised in the light of experience with the ex- isting law. It would be folly to persist in main- taining a system found to be defective in operation simply because it' was originally enacted in the name of reform. The administration of the civil service is one of the most important parts of gov- 2rnment, and common business sense dictates that it be so cr”ered as to be made, in the language of the President, “reasonably perfect for our needs.” e e s Physicians governed.by the sacred code of their kind which forbids them to accept a remedy alleged to cure consumption ought at least to spare the feel- ings of the people laboring under the pleasing de- lusion that the remedy possesses merit because of having cured them. An ex-consumptive has at least a right to feel kindly toward the method by which he acquired the “ex.” An Australian girl is in disfavor for having beaten a witch to death. A suspicion arises that the witch was not genuine, and the method of the girl was certainly crude. When our own ancestors used to kil witches a few generations ago they were careful to do it after trial in which prayer was a prominent factor and in the full consciousness that they were serving heaven. There is much opposition to the plan of publish- ing a list of pensioners. No stronger argument could be made in its favor. The country honors its worthy pensioners and gives them freely the sums to which they are entitled. It wants a chance to dishonor the other kind. Mayor Van Wyck is under the impression that he has taken charge of the affairs of New York. Yellow journalism thinks it has done this, while the public has an idea-that Dick Croker dictates the policy and hands out the pie. Ultimately the mat- ter may be one for arbitration. Announcement comes from England, as if some- thing new, that titles are purchasable there. In America this has long been understood, the only doubt being as to whether the titles are worth the price asked. R Another football player has died xut his post of duty, a victim to a noble ambition to control the destiny of a pig-skin sphere stuffed with wind. There are many indications that .‘Veyler is-a far more successful blackguard than ever he was soldier. Li AN IGNORANT BOODLER. HE effort of the Mission street boodler to get Tanother $30,000 “advertising” contract out oi the Southern Pacific Company by threatening to advise the newly elected Board of Freeholders to confiscate its streetcar lines in this city is quite certain to prove futile. In the first place, the Leg- islature has control of franchises, having passed a general law on the subject. As charters must be consistent with general laws, no such system of confiscation as is proposed by the boodle sheet could go into effect, even if the Freeholders were reckless enough to follow its advice. At present the State statute provides a uniform rule for selling railroad franchises. Boards of Su- pervisors and Common Councils are required to advertise for tenders and to award to the highest bidder. Once a franchise is sold it becomes the absolute property of the person or corporation pur- chasing it. The legal maxim, expressio unius est exclusio alterius, applies to this case. Where one thing is expressed in a statute all other things are excluded. So the courts have held that where a law provides one method for doing a thing all other methods are forbidden. Thus the law of 1893 es- tablishing a rule for the sale of railroad franchises cannot be changed by the Freeholders, nor can any rule for confiscating the property of the present owners. of those franchises be added to it. Possibly, as the Mission street boodler says, the Board of Freeholders elect will decline to accept advice from anybody except itself. Possibly the people on Monday week did declare in favor of re- storing the boodler to the railroad payroll, and it is possible, though hardly probable, that the Freehold- ers may consider it their duty to aid it in getting. another $30,000 “advertising” contract out of the Southern Pacific Company. But in any event this boodle sheet will have to discover some other method of making the blood come than that which it has selected. Doubtless the railroad monopoly can be made to sweat, but not with threats to confiscate its street railway property. When the franchises now owned by the corporation expire, unless the law be changed, they will be sold to the highest bidders for cash. As the railroad monopoly, by virtue of its ownership of the roadbeds and rolling stock of the lines, is in a better position than anybody else to bid high, it will probably get all the franchises. The difficulty with our boodle contemporary is that in its attempts to extort “advertising” con- tracts from the corporations it plans without refer- ence to the law. What it should do is to study up “cinches” that will scare somebody. This talk about confiscating street railroad property is childish. It does not frighten the corporations because there is nothing in it. In our opinion the Mission street boodler will never get on the railroad monopoly’s payroll again until it originates a charter “cinch” which will stand the test. Even if the Freeholders, which it claims to own, were disposed to help re- establish its contractual relations with the rail- road—which is extremely improbable—they could not do so in any such way as this. fl terday was the report from Pomona of or- ders received there for thousands of gallons of pickled olives for Eastern cities, to be delivered in the next few weeks. The orders are the more encouraging because they give reason for believing that at last the people of the East have learned to appreciate the California olive and that hereafter the demand will be an increasing one. Na class of orchardists have had a harder fight to make a market for their produce than those en- | gaged in the cultivation of the olive. The industry [ has labored under many disadvantages. The | American people as a rule are not accustomed to the use of olives. Those who use them have known only the European brands. The oil, moreover, has | been exposed to the ruinous competition of a hun- | dred forms of adulteration. In the face of these | obstacles the California growers have fought an uphill contest for years, and the reward which now seems to be coming to them has been amply mer- ited in every respect. : The industry is one in which California has a most valuable interest. It is capable of an ‘almost unlimited expansion. There are thousands of acres in the State on which the olive will flourish better than any other tree. The fruit produced here is not inferior to that of any other country. All that has been needed to make the industry one of the fore- most in the State has been a wide and safe market for the produce. If the people of the United States ever come to use olivesona scale*proportionate to their use bythe people of Europe we will have in our own country a market capable of sustaining an immense olive in- terest in California. It is this fact that gives im- portance to the report from Pomona that wholesale dealers in the East who a year ago had to be coaxed to handle California olives at all are now unsolicited sending in orders for barrels and hogsheads of them. The big market is apparently opening up. The man with olive trees in bearing has bright pros- pects ahead. ‘While the increased demand for pickled olives is thus gratifying, it must be borne in mind that the highest form of the olive industry is the making of vil. The pickled olive is comparatively raw mate- rial. The oil is the finished form of the product. It employs the most labor, engages the most skill and ought to yield the largest profits. do so, however, so long as cotton seed oil is per- mitted to masquerade as “pure Lucca” oil and finds purchasers under that name. of the law against the petty swindles of adulterated foods is one of the urgent requirements of Ameri- can life. THE DEMAND FOR OLIVES. GRATIFYING feature of the news of yes- If the people of England wish to pay the debts left by the Duchess of Teck that is their affair. They amount to-a trifle of thirty thousand pounds. But it would seem to misguided persons who take pride in net being paupers that the royal family would hasten to relieve the public of new burden. A woman who has been arrested for bigamy makes the plea that one of her trips to the altar was made when she was in a trance. If she can make the plea impress the court and jury nobody can ob- ject, but the minister who performed the ceremony ought to be required to make a plea of some sort. The burning of an American flag by a ot of drunken employes on board the liner St. Louis has no great significance. It merely demonstrates that they were very drunk indeed, which, considering the season, is not remarkable. If Spain were to take Weyler and clap him into jail all this talk about her displeasure at the way.he acting would loge its fairy tale aspect. It will never | A rigid eniorcement | GA HE Board of Naval Officers ap- ointed by the Secretary of the Na- V¥ to devise some plan for the reor- ganization of the personnel of the navy has concluded its labor and sub- mitted its report. The recommendations are, as far as they go, radical enough, and the fact that an additional annual expense of $600,000 goes with the proposed reorganization plan is likely to defeat the entire scheme. Briefly explained, the en- gineer corps will cease to exist as a sep- arate organization, and in the course of a few years its functions will be per- formed by line officers. This plan dis- poses of the thirty-year fight between the line and engineer corps, but leaves sev- eral other corps troubles,still unsettled. These are the medical staff, the con- structors, the civil engineers, the pay and the marine corps. It was at first in- tended to recommend the abolition of the two latter, but fear that the entire reor- ganization scheme might be jeopardized caused the board to leave these recom- mendations out—for the time being. In- dications point, however, to the abolition of the pay and marine corps in the near future, so far as their service on board ship is concerned. The argument is used by the line branch that every officer on a ship shoyld be a military officer, and NIZING THE PERS that the purely civilian service now per- formed by paymasters could be done as | well by the pay clerk, under the super- | vision of a line officer. The proposition | is favored by the pay clerks, who look | for warrant rank and some definite standing in the navy, which they are now denied. The paymaster occuples a stateroom on | the port side in the wardroom. His daily routine is to look after his pay clerk and yeoman, to make requisitions for money and stores, and to purchase the latter when in foreign ports. He acts entirely under the orders of the commanding of- | ficer. In the event of an engagement at | sea the paymaster assists the surgeon. In the case of the abandonment of ship the paymaster's duty is to see that the safe is saved. These duties, the line of- ficers point out, are non-military in their | nature and could be dane with ease by a line officer, who, in the event of trouble, | could take charge of a division and be of some service. In the coast survey vessels there are no paymasters, the captain acting as | such, and in the old navy it sometimes happened that the purser died and his duties then devolved upon the captain. A story is told of the captain of a frigate in the Pacific, away back in the '50" who performed the duties of purser through nearly the entire cruise. His system, 1t is true, was rather unique and startled the Fourth Auditor by its orig- inality. Old Captain S., 5o the story runs, EOROBTRORRCRCRCECROTE returned East after a three years’ cruise, and after seeing his ship dismantled and laid up in ordinary the captain got the usual leave-of-absence orders and went to his farm. In the course of a month he received an official intimation that the Fourth Auditor wished to get his finan- cial accounts of the cruise. Old S. re- plied that his accounts had been duly rendered. The entire office force hunted pigeon holes and lockers for the missing accounts, but without success, so an- other letter of inquiry was sent to the crusty captain-purser. His answer was that he had sent his accounts in a barrel ashore with other articles ad- dressed to the Navy Department. With this intimation of the whereabouts of the missing accounts another search was made from garret to cellar in the Navy Department buflding, and stowed away with casks containing curiosities gath- ered aboard was the barrel—an ordinary | pork barrel—duly Indorsed. ‘When opened it was found to contain thousands of slips of paper, receipts for various sums of money pald officers and crew, and for stores of all descriptions purchased at many places during the long cruise. Only these and nothing more constituted the old seadog’'s ac- counts, and it took several months for the office force to unravel the business THE OLD PAYMASTER'S ORIGINAL METHOD OF BOOKKEEPING. and put it into tangible form, but wien the work was completed it was found to tally exactly with the sums the captain had drawn from time to time. It was subsequently explained that when the captain entered upon the duties as purser he had two barreis placed in his cabin, one at each end of his desk. When any one was paid he took two re- ceipts, one of which he dropped in the barrel on the starboard side, holding his vouchers; the other receipt went into the port barrel, which was account with the Navy Department. This sys- tem of accounts, while it had the merit of simplicity, did not meet with the ap- proval of the department, and no other officer has ever followed it. mixed boards, consisting of commodore: lieutenants, marine corps lawyers, now and then assisted by a paymaster, have worked indefatigably system of accounts for the navy, with startling results. Only one paymaster has survived the ordeal, after a two years' sojourn In a sanitarilum. The commodores are dead or retired, the lieu- tenants are also retired, and the marine corps lawyer has resigned and is now a rivate citizen. Order seems at last to ave been restored, where once all was | chaos, and nothing is now more simple than the navy accounts, provided always that there is a competen: work, and supervision or the offictal sig- nature matters very little. FLASHES OF FUN. “Did Miss Flavilla seem pleased when you asked her to go to the theater?” “Pleased? She wanted to keep the tickets for fear something might happen to me.”—Chicago Record. *“Can you, sir,’ said the incomer with the shiny long coat, ‘“‘can you give me a short and succinet definition of money?" “See here,” said the financial editor, “T want to tell you before we go any fur- ther that you needn’t expect this to be any object lesson.”’—Indianapolis Jour- nal. “I don’'t mind bables at all,” sald the baldheaded man as he sat down beside a woman with an infant-in-a “Don't you, really?” asked the mother, with a sweet smile. “No, never. My wife minds them."— Boston Traveller. “I wouldn't marry the best man who ever lived,” she exclaimed. “Poor fellow,” murmured he; ‘nobody seems to want that best man. What en- couragement is there, anyway, for a man | to be better than the common herd?’— Boston Transcript. ———————— FLOURISHING EXPORT BUSINESS. The export business of the TUnited | States is in a most flourishing condition. The total figures for the eleven months of the year are $283,521.805. This amount is unparalleled in. our history and pre- sents a gratifying aspect for the future of American commerce. The most sig- nificant fact about the export reports from month to month is the steady in- crease which they show. Nothlnfi but some unforeseen calamity or fool legis- lation can stop the onward march a foreign commerce for the United States unprecedented in its value to the country and unequaled in its volume by any na- tion on earth.—Detroit Free Press. ————e—— REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. Every girl thinks she knows how to look wisfully at a man. It is just as apt to be the homeliest girl in the family that carries home the mis- tletoe. At a certain age no girl can see how an old bachelor can keep “Lucile” in his library and, act so. Probably the first man Balaam told his story to said that the ass was nothing to a parrot his wife once had. ter a woman has got tired kissing her husband eva? night because she loves Nmi;-h. still keeps it up to see what's on is 5 A girl will very seldom go to the door to bid a man goodnight unless there are some portieres which she can wrap her- self up in and look out at him over the edge.—New York Press. Low's Horehound Cough Syrup for hoarseness; price 10c. 417 Sansome st. * NOTES ABOUT NOTABLES. A Transvaal correspondent of a Lon- don paper says that President Kruger has the wonderful art of saving ten times his salary every year. The Rev. Frank DeWitt Talmage, though a new resident in Chicago, has already been elected chaplain of the Sec- ond Regiment, Illinois National Guard. Prince Ouronssoff, the new Russian Embassador to France, is an accomp- lished linguist. He studled diplomacy under the famous Prince Gortchakoff, who was his uncle. President McMillan of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States has appointed L. M. Hamburger a commis- sioner to promote American sports at the Paris Exposition in 1900. Lieutenant Elmer Lindsey, U. 8. A., ‘writes from the Yellowstone Park that few buffalo have been reported in the park this season, though he hopes to find twenty-five, which he will endeavor to protect. The Emperor of China, who was care- | fully educated by an American mission- ary, can speak and read the English lan- guage fluently. He has a positive horror of European doctors, and his diet is reg- ulated by a board of native medicine men. Mrs. Ellen H. Simpson, the widow of the great Methodist, Bishop Simpson, who died in Philadelphia the other day, organized the Women's Association of the Methodist Hospital, started the Silk Culture Association and the Western ‘Temperance Home, West Philadelphia. She was also connected with the Indian Association, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the American Uni- versity, Washington; the Museum of Art, the Home and Foreign Missionary socle- ties of the Methodist church, and a num- ber of Bible reading socleties. —_————— BALLADE OF THE PRIMROSE WAY. Life, through the arc of a century Cronies two we haveé faced the road, Cheek by jowl since the first young da When the path before us glowed Mind you the wonders the vista showed? Cloth d‘nld ‘where the sunlight lay- Mind you cowslip balls we stows Glinting guerdons of Primrose W Life, yow're a falthful votary, Years and a day ll: keep the code; ay. reap to Carols have changed t 1t And 105t forever s Primrose L'ENVOL Youth, of the morning sandals List to a graybeard ld"egy: el Man but once is a_demigod— Earth's Olympus Is Primrose Way. —ROSE EDITH MILLS in The Chapbook. rode, Way. PERSON@AL. George A. Barchelder of Boston is at the Palace. . H. Dobson, a Dawson City miner, is at the Palace. e F. S. Bradley, a Red Bluft merchant, Is at the Russ. G. Jerome Smith, & Stockton capitalist, is at the Lick. Hiram Johnson, a Cripple Creek miner, is at the Russ. J. D. Barnes and wife of Dawson City are at the Palace. F. A. Hihn, a capitalist of Santa Cruz, is_at the Occidental. Hon. A. Caminetti of Jackson, Amador County, is in the city. Victor Roache of Calcutta, India, guest at the Baldwin. A. L. Cheney, a miner direct from Skagway, is at the Palace. R. A. Moncure, a large cattle owner of Cambria, Cal., is at the Lick. W. L. Adams, a prominent Santa Bar- bara merchant, is at the Russ. W. C. Parker, a blg orchardist of So- noma County, is at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Eaton of San Mateo are at the Palace for the winter. John McCann, a wealthy resident of | Stockton, is at the Cosmopolitan. | Dr. W. S. Taylor, a well known physi- | cian of Livermore, is at the Palace. Augustus Ehle of Chicago, a large wire cloth manufacturer, is at the Palace. J. W. Hughes, a Seattle merchant, ac- companied by his wife, is at the Russ. 7. H. Shirk,a big land owner and cattle raiser of Marshfield, Or., is at the Russ. R. A. Bentley, the Sacramento lawyer, will be at the Lick for the next few days. George H. George, a business man of Astoria, Or., Is staying at the Occidental. Colonel I. N. Peyton, a prominent con- tractor of Spokane, Wash., is at the Pal- ace. L. F. Ledbetter, a Los Angeles mer- chant, accompanied by his wife, is at the Russ. Fred Erickson, a prominent raflroad contractor of San Lufs Obispo, is at the Grand. Martin Winch of Portland, Or., & promi- nent raiser of thoroughbred horses, is at the Lick. Levi Rockiliffe, a prominent politician of Sacramento, has come to the city on a visit. He is staying at the Lick. G. H. Wilson and B. Goodwin, two prominent insurance men of Seattle, are staying for a few days at the Occidental. Leon Carteri of Santa Barbara, one of the largest land owners and cattle ralsers in his section of the State, is at the Grand. Dr. R. Godfrey Broderick and Lieuten- ant C. M. McCormick, U. 8. N., came is a On the con- | | trary, during the past ten years various | to devise a new | clerk to do the | down from the navy yard last night and | registered at the California. Mrs. Captain C. J. Bruguere, who has | been in the country for the last few | weeks recuperating from a severe illness, has returned to the Occidental. John Thompson, the large fruit-grower | and wine man of Ukiah, is registered at the Grand. Mr. Thompson has been en- gaged for some time past In getting up a statistical map of Mendocino County, and his trip down here is taken with the object of having the result of his labors printed and put in shape for distribution. Among yesterday’s arrivals at the Palace was a party of lucky Klondikers, consisting of J. W. Barnes and wife, H. Dobson and G. W. Fox. They weré out in the afternoon taking in the sights and endeavoring to find compensation for the years of hardship passed in looking for a fortune amid the frozen gold flelds of the north. C. E. Edwards, a large mine owner of Okanogan Lake, a small body of water beyond the confines of British Colum- | bian civilization, is a guést at the Occi- dental. Mr. Edwards {s down here on business connected with his mining inter- ests, and ‘after a few days spent in tast- ing the delights of San Francisco he will return to his lodge amid the vast wilder- ness of the north. W. H. Clary, pioneer mine owner of | Calaveras County, s at the Lick. Mr. Clary says the mines in his section of the country have been doing nothing for the past few weeks, as all the water in the vicinity has frozen solid, and consequent- Iy it has been impossible to procure suf- ficient power to keep things going. How- ever, he looks for a llvely resumption of business as soon as a thaw sets in. A party of six missionaries arrived from the Orient the day before yesterday on the Belgic, and are staying at the California. They left before the com- mencement of the present troubles in the East, and consequently bring no news of interest concerning the proposed parti- tion of China. They report all the mis- sions in China as being in an exceedingly prosperous condition, and express them- | selves as more than pleased with the re- ligious progress made during the last twelve months. The party consists of Dr. and Mrs. Sharpllegh, Miss Murdick, Miss Hinman and Miss Chapin. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. | WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—S. B. Waters of San Francisco is at the Ebbitt House; i S. M. Bowden of Los Angeles is at the Arlington. e Cal.glace fruit 50c perlb at Townsend's.® ———— Mocha pistache, pineapple cake. %05Larkin — e Special information supplied daily to | business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 nt- gomery st. el. Main 1042. . ————————— To advertise our perfumery counter, we give a panel picture free to every pur- chaser in this department. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. . — e THEY WORK IN HARMONY. Those who speak poetically of the voices of the night do not mention ever having heard a short ton of coal and a gas meter calling each other liars in th; Cellar.—Philadelphta Times. 5 ————— “BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES" are of grea service In subduing Hoarseness and Coughs. Sold only in boxes. Avold imitations. —_———————— ANGOSTURA BITTERS—Prepared by DR. Sreg- ERT for his private use, have become famous as the best appetizing tonic. Accept no other. A FOREGONE CONCLUSION. Typewriter machines may be cheaper next year, but typewriters will prol bly be as dear as ever.—Chicago Times- Herald. ———— e NEW TO-DAY. Absolutely Pure v ROYAL BAKING POWDER