The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 9, 1898, Page 6

- unjustifiable homicide. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 1898. 6 SUND;YT : VJOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. : " address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE. Telephone Maln 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS........... 217 to 221 Stevenson strez : Telephone Main 1§H. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carriers 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 mail, $1.50 ........908 Broadway ve, DAVID ALLEN. Eastern Representa 3 NEW YORK OFFICE.. ..Room 188, World Building “ICE . Riggs House WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 MoAllister street; open until 9:30 c'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until So'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh st.; open until9 o'clock, 1505 PolK street cpen until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ond Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE ............ AMUSEMENTS. m Mexico,” to-morrow night. he Girl T Left Behind Me.” The District Fair.” Mother Goose. Morose Tivoll Hsmopolt Sherman, Clay & Co. Hali-Debut of Miss Frances Davis, Tuesday e 11, The Central Park California Jockey ¢ . Oakland Racetrack—Races Monday. COMPLETE THE WORK THIS TIME: O NCE more the Supervisors have undertaken the task of providing some means for pro- tecting the people against the ever present danger of being run over by the street cars. The subject has been under consideration intermit- u‘nfiy for a long time. Every now and then an accident of more than ordinary horror occurs to arouse indignation, and straightway the Supervisors set about talking of doing something. By and by the indignation passes, then the talk popular passes and the something that was to be done re- mains undone. This time the Supervis should take action. There should be no talk on the matter except that which tends to z There should be a-limit to the discussion, a period fixed when a decision will be made, an ordinance adopted and enforced and the lives of citizens made reason- ably safe from the dangers that menace them. The people are not asking for an impossibility. It is within the powers of the street car companies to use their property and carry on their business in such a way that it will not be a menace to the community. It is also within the powers of the Supervisors and the police to compel them to do The reform possible as well as imperative, and therefore should tivity. limbs and so if they refuse to act willingly. is be carried out It cost the Supervisors some mental effort to devise and enact a proper ordinance on the sub- ject. It will cost the police some exercise of energy to enforce the ordinance after it is enacted. It may cost the people something to defend and maintain the ordinance in the courts. It will cost the railway companies something to equip their cars with proper fenders and proper brakes. It cost them something to be compelled to em- ploy more men and not overwork their employes on the cars until they are too tired to attend to their duties. These costs in the aggregate may be consider- able, but however large they will be cheap in com- parison with the cost of continuing the present system. To run the street cars at present costs anxiety, bruises, wounds, broken limbs, mangled bodies, and not infrequently costs life itseli. Many persons have been killed by the cars in this ity under circumstances which amount virtually to We have been permitting the companies for already too long a time to run w their cars and carry on their business at such a cost. Popular indignation has been so frequently aroused by some shocking accident due to careless- ness on the part of the companies that it no longer passes away when the shock of the death passes. It has become chronic. It is now indistent, urgent, clamorous for redress and justice. This time the Supervisors must take action. Public safety re- quires it. Popular sentiment demands it. W lic that the grand edition of The Call to be sued as a part of the jubilee celebration of the discovery of gold in California and as an adjunct to the exposition of mines and mining will be the most comprehensive and accurate review of the his- tory and present conditions of Pacific Coast mining ever published. In a general way the work will deal with mining the world over and with all features of the recent development of the industry, but in the main it will be devoted to the gold and silver mining of the Pa- cific Coast. In that particular field it will cover every subject of historic interest or present value. The student of its pages will learn what California mining was in the past and what it is to-day. He will acquire the fullest and latest information of the developments of each gold district on the coast, from the tropic sands of Mexico to the frozen fields of Alaska. " Care will be exercised to have each of the varied subjects treated with strict fidelity to truth and with scientific accuracy. The leading articles will be con- tributed by experts of acknowledged authority in their lines of work. These papers will be instruc- tive as well as interesting. They will reward the study of all who have any intention to engage in mining on any part of the Pacific Coast, and will repay even the general reader who desires to have an intelligent comprehension of the development of mining since the day when Marshall discovered the golden nugget at Sutter's mill and set the hardy and ambitious manhood of the world traveling this way OUR JUBILEE EDITION. E are now able to give assurance to the pub- in search of adventures and fortune. As an adjunct to the mining exposition the edi- tion will be invaluable as it will furnish information enabling the visitor to understand every important feature of the exhibits from those which show the crude placer mining implements of the days of ‘49 to the quartz crushing machinery of the mighty mining mills of to-day. It is to appear on the Sun- day before the exposition opens, and will therefore be timely and opportune for all who come. HEED THE PLEA OF THE WE@AK. HE statement of China's case by Li Hung TChang has attracted worldwide attention. It is an appeal to the nations against the de- struction of Chinese sovereignty and autonomy, ond it raises against European aggression an ar- gument that cannot be passed over in silence. This Confucian diplomat and statesman has pricked the conscience of the Christian world, and if his coun- try is to be the victim of division among the powers his statement will stand, crying through all coming history an accusing voice to impeach Christian civilization. But, after all, this remarkable plea for his coun- try’s life is not stronger by a single word nor a single principle than the appeal made to the United States by the Hawaiians against the forci- ble destruction of their autonomy and the seizure of their sovereignty. Behind the voice of Li Hung Chang are 400,000,000 people. Behind the Ha- waiian protest are only 40,000, but each rests upon the same principle, which is deserving of respect, whether those in whose behalf it is pleaded number hundreds or hundreds of millions. ‘There be those in this country who wonder why Germany turns a deaf ear to China. But why <hould we wonder if we hear not the cry and spurn the prayer of the Hawaiians? Indceu it is repeated with tiresome reiteration that lawless aggression against China strengthens the cause of equallylawless aggression bythis coun- try against Hawaii. The excuse is, in part, the old one, that possession of Hawaii is necessary to our Chinese trade. If owning an island in the tropics is necessary to that, why do we propose to ‘treat the occupation of Chinese ports by Russia, Ger- many and France as inimical to our trade? The farce of it is exposed to the laughter of the world by Senator Morgan's declaration that Europe is putting a commercial cordon against us reaching from Manchuria to Manchester. If this elongated and grandiloquent statement were true how can we cut the cordon with Hawaii? An Eastern Senator discussing annexation re- cently said that ‘he would have to vote for it be- cause all our ships passing to and from Asia have to stop there. Senator Perkins can inform him that they don’t have to do any such thing. The short route to Asia lies 1600 miles north of Hawaii, and can be traversed from continent to continent with- out recoaling. 5 Our Pacific liners do not all regularly touch at Honolulu because it is out of the path of com- merce. For all these reasons we have not even the excuse that Europe has for aggression upon China. The commercial argument may be used in that case but not in ours. We propose to rob a weak peo- ple for other than the reasons we give to the world. The real reason is that the planters have had the money and have put it where it will do the most good. Their stake is a protected profit of $19 a ton on raw sugar. No great nation was ever be- fore stood up and dishonored by such a small force. i N to its debased mind the intelligence that in ad- t vocating a franchise “cinch” for the new char- ter it is wasting its energy, the Mission street Boodler still persists in its shameless course. The Boodler is evidently incorrigible. In support of its “cinch” it declares that we know nothing about journalism and less about the charter. As for our knowledge of the constitution and the laws it has a sublime contempt for it. Inasmuch as the Boodler does not deign to point out wherein we are mistaken in our interpretation of the constitution and statutes, we can do no better | than plead guilty to the charge of being entirely ig- | norant of journalism—that is, journalism as under- stood and practiced in the office of the Boodler. For instance, we do not know how to falsify telegrams We are ignorant of the art of concocting lies about public events, and even if we were versed in it we would not dare to print them. We do not under- stand the business of publishing false “want” adver- @ SHAMELESS BOODLER. OTWITHSTANDING our attempt o convey | tisements, and our conscience would not permit us to circulate anonymous circulars libeling our busi- ness rivals, even if we were not too cowardly to print them. In that department of journalism which negotiates “advertising” contracts calling for edi- torial silence at $1000 a month we are also com- pletely unversed. The reflection that we know nothing of the art of journalism as understood and practiced by the Boodler, however, brings one consolation. Our ig- norance is shared by reputable newspapers through- out the world. So far as our observation extends, the journalism practiced by the Mission street Boodler is uniquely distinct. Not only does the Boodler contract away its editorial liberty at a stip- ulated sum per month, but the moment it sees a chance to make a better contract it repudiates its obligations. This was the history of the famous $30,000 “ad- vertising” contract. The Boodler remained on the Southern Pacific payroll for twenty-two months, drawing for its silence the princely sum of $22,000. At the end of that period there began the mad rush of the demagogues to the rescue of the railroad strikers of 1894. The Boodler perceived an oppor- tunity to get an increase of pay. Like the strikers, it struck. But Mr. Huntington considered the price he was paying for the Boodler's friendship suffi- cient. He stood firm and the contract fell. Thus the Boodler achieved the dazzling distinc- tion of being a corruptionist who will not stay bought—a journalistic role in which it stands un- rivaled in the newspaper world. The Boodler may be surprised at the statement, but we are proud of our ignorance of this kind of journalism. All we know about the newspaper business is tc publish truthful and reliable news. It may be stupid, but we accept only such money for advertising as the legitimate results of the business justify patrons in paying. We know nothing about franchise “cinches,” nor about blackmailing water or gas companies. We trust the Boodler will par- don our interference with its attempt to again “hold up” the Southern Pacific Company. Our view oi the law governing street railway franchises was pre- sented in the kindliest spirit. If the Boodler had any sense it would not abuse us for endeavoring to save it the time and mental wear and tear of prose- cuting a “cinch” which is bound to prove profit- less. Inasmuch as the Spanish are sane, there may be something in the rumor that they are beginning to favor a protectorate for Cuba. But as to the alle- gation that they favor the institution by the United States of the protectorate suggested, faith is naturally weak and gropes about for something to lean against. A BATTLE FOR CALIFORNIA. URING the whole period of her existence as a Federal State California has continu- ously paid into the treasury of the Union more than her proportional share of taxes and rev- enues. Her people have been loyal to every na- tional aspiration. Her delegates to Congress, with the approval of their constituents, have liberally and willingly voted money from the common treas- ure to promote every form of public enterprise that promised to advance the welfare of any im- portant section of the nation. She has contributed by her taxes to the seacoast or interior improve- ments of every State in the Union from Maine to Texas, from Washington to Florida. She - has given dollars in taxation where she has received pennies in appropriations. The time has now come in the development of the State when her delegates in Congress must ask from the Representatives of other States a response to the unsectional liberality shown by Californians in the past. Our commercial and industrial wel- fare requires the improvement of the vast river system which drains the great valleys of the State. The work will be expensive even if undertaken at once, but it will be much more expensive if de- layed. Therefore the improvement is not only im- portant in itself, but it is important to have it be- gun at the earliest date possible. Congressman De Vries has introduced into the House a bill providing an appropriation of $500,- 000 for the improvement of the Sacramento River and its tributaries. This brings the issue before the nation and puts the claim of California fairly - be- fore the Representatives of other States she has done so much to help. The amount asked for is not excessive. On the contrary it is moderate to the degree of modesty. It can be defended on every score of enterprise or economy. It is a measure that should find supporters in all parties and from all sections of the Union. We will be foolish, however, if we sit idle and expect support to come to us as a grateful response for services rendered in the past. What California has a right to ask from the General Government is not often recalled beyond the Rockies. To ob- tain the desired appropriation will require some- thing more than the asking. It will require a con- test. The introduction of the bill means a battle for California and the Californians must do the fighting. The first thing to be done is to rouse the whole State to action. If we can once get the people to will strongly to win the fight it will be virtually half won from that moment. We are so far from Washington that we neglect our interests there. We do not back up our Congressmen as the Rep- resentatives of other States are backed. That is the reason they have so often failed in issues where they might have won successes that have been widely beneficial. In this battle for the improvement of the rivers every sort of organization in the State should take part. Let us advance to the attack with all the ac- tivities and energies of our people. The official authorities of the State, of counties and cities, com- mercial and industrial bodies, labor unions, mer- chants, farmers, mining men, all men of influence and personal force should take part in the contest. We can win if we put forth the full strength of the State. It is a battle for California which by will power and determination we can convert into vic- tory. would ——— The offer of the Santa Fe to lease a train to the Populists of Kansas might result in some embarrass- ment to the road. The idea is to prove that the train could not be operated at a less cost to passen- gers than the company charges now. But it is a safe wager that if the Populists had a train of their own some of them would ride who never think of such a luxury at present, and that the cars would be so crowded that “standing room” only would be a regular sign. Then fares would be reduced, a pre- cedent established and nothing left the road but to go into insolvency. It is not pleasant to speak of the Bulletin, once a newspaper but now something else, but its boast ol having “scooped” contemporaries is worth one brief notice for two reasons. The first is that it is untrue, and the second that, even if true, it would be of not the slightest importance. The public does not expect news from the sheet in question, and asks no more than that it refrain from the bunko business. e The statement is made that New York is to be wide open, prize-fights and all. This is, to those having the happiness to live far from New York, most cheering intelligence. Perhaps it will be wide enough open to take in a lot of pugilists who are loafing around here, and in the absence of a chance to get into the ring are drifting naturally into Mission street journalism. A burglar whose picture was printed in The Call and led to his identification goes to the penitentiary with hard feelings against this paper. Thus is art discouraged. Another paper might have printed the picture in such a manner that it could not have been recognized and the burglar been permitted to retain his freedom and the privilege of holding the press in high regard. S SRR LS - In most of the litigation concerning the salary of Gladys Wallis the public has been taken into con- fidence, but only to a certain point. had the satisfaction of knowing whether Manager Frawley took the lady across his knee and spanked her, or if this was a baseless rumor. And the pub- lic would have liked to know. —_— According to the Coroner’ Dow was murdered, and according to the police he killed himself. In the light of experience would it not be wise for these two aggregations of wisdom to adopt a com- promise verdict admitting cautiously that Dow is dead? —_— The Oakland Judge who has decided that chick- ens are animals deserves thanks for having added a notable chunk to the sum of human knowledge. It may be considered that the old notion that a chicken is a vegetable has been completely dis- pelled. ST Blanco's plan to enter the field against Gomez will be watched with some interest. Weyler used to have considerable fun in making similar plans, but he got out of the field again with a celerity Blanco can hardly hope to equal. “The new terror of the navy” has not been de- scribed yet, but it may be the order just promul- gated by the Secretary that the men must not swear. Since an evening paper affirms that Durrant is dead, and repeats the allegation three times, we are It has never | gmfiflflfi#nfifififlfl)}fififififlflfi WITH ENTIRE FRANKNESS, BY HENRY JAMES. $=3xgated o & o o o flfifl)}fifififlflfifififififlfifi#flfig There was an interesting story in the Examiner of last Sunday concerning a man who had been caught in an ava- lanche. Naturally the first impulse of a man after escaping from' an ava- lanche would be to write to the Exam- iner and describe the emotions which filled him during his descent, and por- traying with some particularity the rude treatment that had jarred his sys- tem and torn his clothes. But it hap- pened that the tale had already ap- peared in the New York Sun of the Sunday before and had by that honest journal been credited to the Colorado Springs Gazette. of date unspecified. Can it be possible that the Examiner had merely taken this piece of reprint. directed it to itself and run it as hav- ing come from thesnow-pelted hero who had drifted down with the slide? Verily I fear so. There is no form of misrep- resentation of which the yellow journal would not rather be guilty. For one I distrust it so thoroughly that seeing the name of a friend in its obit- uary column I would be thrilled by a reasonable hope that the friend was among the living. SO T Clara Falimer is reported on good au- thority to have wept upon hearing the verdict of “not guilty” pronounced in her favor. Naturally any girl in a sim- ilar position would have given some ev- idence of concern. Tears do not neces- sarily indicate the presence of grief. People weep for joy, for surprise, go into briny dissolution for any excuse or for no excuse. An analysis of the Fall- mer reason for turning loose the tor- rent would show it to have a logical basis, and heartless indeed would be the impulse to dam her lachrymal ducts. The girl had been acquitted, vindicated after having killed a man. She had made the plea of insanity, which I believe was the veriest pre- tense. That she was ever crazy, that she ever thought she had been crazy or that the excellent citizens composing the jury ever entertained such an idea I do not for a moment believe. They were governed by an as vet unproved theory that among the inherent rights of the female is that of slaying the male. If it was Clara's legitimate privilege to put the particular vic- tim she selected out of the way, there is no ground for opposing the de- sire of any woman to put any man out of the way. Concerning this view there have been some expressions of doubt, enough, in fact, to create a feeling of uneasiness on the part of any lady making bold to act upon it. Thus Clara must have experienced not only a sense of relief, but realized that by her firmness and her pistol she had for- tified in its immunity the sex she hon- ors and adorns, and opened wider to it the promising field of murder; surely enough to account for tears of joy. Or perhaps these crystal drops were for the twelve in the jury box, who by a fewsobsanda pretty face have been in- duced to set the seal of approval upon a policy which in the fuliness of time I trust may be fatal to some of them. Any young woman who feels the need of divertisement is at liberty to go gun- ning after any young man, or old one for that matter. There is no closed sea- son. At certain periods the quail is protected, the deer may roam fearless, the duck quack with none to make him afraid. But man must take chances that owing to his own amiability as a target are growing appreciably less. I hope Clara will not make too free use of her license to slaughter. Let her be generous and lend her gun to some oth- er girl pining for innocent amusement. S TR T paintet Massachusetts women are trying hard to keep one of their number from the practice of law. Their noble im- pulse to prevent her earning bread is based on the supposition that she is not as good as they are. If a woman whose e has not been above the veiled and insinuatingreproach of her spotless sis- ters choose to enter upon a profession which may be honorable, it does not seem to me the spotless sisters are bur- nishing their own halos by taking the role of dogs in the manger, never a dig- nified role, and particularly out of touch with the benign spirit supposed to glorify and dominate a sex far bet- ter than mine. 1 hope the lone woman, combated by the holy throng, will tri- umph over them and that in the end they may have the grace to be ashamed. If a strict moral test were to be applied to men who seek places at the bar many an eloquent voice would be hwshed and the few attorneys left would have more business than they could attend to. While sorry that any woman should desire to become a law- yer, and confident that thinking twice she would rather become something clse, she has an intrinsic right to a fair deal and for a sanctified band of her own sex to ring in a cold deck is a blow at an ideal which man in his olindness has seen fit to set up. T Now that Theodore Durrant is dead, ‘he best hope is that he may be for- Fotten, and yet the student of the ab- aormal must long speculate upon the strange creature whose black and ap- valling record was Friday fitly ended | by the hangman. In form, but In naught else, wag Durrant human. He could not be subject to the ordinary =motions which go to make up the span of life. Vain even on the gallows, bestial, cruel, if there ever came to him 2 regret for the girls whom he had slain, it was because of the physical discomfort the act brought upon him- self. And yet even for this the glory of being heralded over the world as a monster seemed to be an adequate off- set. No episodes in the history of re- volting crimes could be more terribie than the murders he committed in the house of God. No experience mortal experience which must have come to the fair and helpless maidens when there burst upon them the awful truth that they were at the mercy of a malign and pitiless demon. Compared with the fate of Minnie Williams—her anguish of soul, her bodily pain—the death of Durrant was to be courted as a luxurious exit. With a rope about his neck he impressed a gaping throng that he was brave. He simply lacked conscience and heart. To lure a girl to the shelter of a sacred fane and there torture her life away requires a sort of courage. Even led by pas- sfon or anger to such a deed a man would be driven to insanity by the hor- ror of it when the paroxysm had passed. In every shadow he would see the wraith of his vicdm, In every breath of air there would be an accus- ever knew could surpass in agony the | ing voice. Peace would have fled from earth. Durrant had this peculiar cour- age. It sustained him on the scaffold, as it had sustained him when the State was weaving about him a web of cer- tain evidence, which enabled him to be flippant when the boasts of imnocence made by his counsel had been scat- | tered by a storm of fact as chaff before the wind. This courage did not mark him as a man. The final display was the certificate he placed on the cer- tainty of his own guil. L As to the lawyers concerned in the Durrant case I have already expressed an opinion which there is no occasion to revise nor reiterate at length. They have brought reproach upon a profes- sion that should be honorable, and I think they must share the guilt of Dur- rant since they tried to save him, out- raging the law and the people, after guilt had become apparent to all men, and when thé blood of his dishonored victims was crying from the ground. ‘Were their ears deafened by the clink of coin, or did they simply strive to show how potent the law could be in defeating itself? As for the ministry, that profession also seemed likely for a time to suffer, but the only minister found at fault was Davis of Oakland, who could not reasonably be expected to be found elsewhere. Then there is yellow journalism which has joyously succeeded in plas- tering itself with new odium, a fresh coat over another of the same materi- al. But yellow journalism is not a pro- fession. It is a crime. RABBIT TRACKS. On hill and curve of wooded ground The snows have fallen down; The brooks, in icy armor bound, Their plaining murmurs drown, And thickly on the creek's white bed The rabbit tracks are spread. A blue-jay through the tree tops files, Blue-etched against the dun; Above, in gray and slaty skies, The ‘crows pass one by one; While where the last month leaves lie dead Dim rabbit tracks are spredd. Across the sheeted meadows bare The wild wind swings apace, Sings eldritch-like through frosty air, Dies out and leaves no trace; And where its viewless wake has sped Faint rabbit tracks are spread. The trees in silent wonder stand— The hickory and oak; And morning mists about them band In garb of purple smoke, And thick where woodland paths have led The rabbit tracks are spread. And all about the fleecy snows, The orchards and the lanes, The prickly way of bleak hedge-rows, The bridges and the drains— Where'er the wraith of night has fled The rabbit tracks are spread. —ERNEST McGAFFEY in Woman's Home Companion, OUR FRUIT INDUSTRY MISREPRE- SENTED. To the Editor of The Call: A bulletin on fruit culture, of recent issue from the Division of Pomology, United States De- partment of Agriculture, which has been given wide publicity, contains numerous unpardonable mistakes pertaining to the horticultural industry of our State. ‘These blunders were recently pointed out to the Secretary of Agriculture by Sen- ator Stephen M. White. To illustrate the absolute imbecility of the document, it states, for instance, that no oranges are raised in the State; makes no mention of the production of grapes south of latitude 39, that territory embracing the Fresno region and other large grape-growing sections. Figs are not mentioned as a California product nor are Japanese persimmons. No men- tion is made of raisins, nor is the State credited with the ability to produce walnuts, and very little notice is made of many varieties of apples and peaches. While the bulletin contains no nega- tions that California does not raise fruit accredited to other States, it having been given official indorsement and sent broadcast over the world, purporting to state the special localities devoted to the raising of the particular fruits enumer- ated, no other interpretation can be placed on the document than that Cali- fornia is not adapted to the production of the fruits named. In order to correct the false impres- sions that may arise from the inac- curacy of the aforesaid bulletin, the fol- lowing statistics of the acreage in fruit and fruit shipments of recent collation are appended: £z . 833 g 2 & &° B = g% g8 8 S id 92836191 “Sujavaeg ‘L6811 §910W ‘(9|qV) PUB USIVL ‘DUIM) Saduip | ERBNSS8E3E TIH 60351 “Bupwog -uoN = 3 H £ - E | x| 8|88 =R seEmss..mms|d 3| 8| 53gBNE5. EEEggasNanE 2 d a,.l RRAN RS =N e BRI T - DD Fruit shipments by rail and sea for not yet avalilable) 1896 (figures for 1897 were as follows: Canned fruit Total tons.... .o Wine and brandy, 7609 Respectfully submitted, LELONG, B. M. Secretary_State Board of H Sacramento, Dec. 30, 1907, S —_—— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET—A. S, city. “Lady Audley’s Secret” was published in Harper's Monthiy, nov TREASURY—G. P. G. and A. A. H., City. This department does not know anything about the treasu co v uied about. = oo PROFESSOR KULEY—B. C., Oakland, Cal. The latest Philadelphia Directory recsived in this city does not contain the name of Professor Kuley. A CONTRACT—A. J., City. There is nothing in the codes of the State of Cal- ifornia under the head of centracts or husband and wife that declares that a conttx'%c:l’ent:dregw Inhw by the husband mus the wife and acknowi- edged wo‘r‘; a notary. T STIRRUPS—S., Covello, Cal. More than a hundred patents on stirrups have been granted, and a description of each can be carloads. found in the specifications of patents is- sued out of the United States Patent Of- fice. It would take more than a pa o;t The Call to describe the man: sued for stirrups. Pl B ENLISTING IN THE NAVY.—W. B., City. There is no United States naval rendezvous in the city at this time. A man desiring to enlist in the United States navy from this city should file an 'fl'u“"&'h with the commandant at , or make n _on board of any ship i tmm for inf ’ntn!o c.nmm:'-m Wi COLLECTED IN : THE CORRIDORS C. K. Banister of Ogden is registered at the Grand. 0. F. Morris, the Sonora mining man, is at the Grand. W. W. Sousland, a hotel man of Salinas, is at the Lick. A R Moncure, a cattleman of Cambria, is at the Lick. J. H. Stemer, a politician of New York, is at the Baldwin. J. H. Gratz, a mining man of Cripple Creek, is at the Russ. ' B. F. McCullough, a rancher of Crows Landing, is at the Grand. Sol Repinsky, a trader of Chilkat Pass, Alaska, is at the Palace. H. Field, a large business man of St. Imuis, is at the California. H. B. Maxon, United States Surveyor of Nevada, is at the Palace. J. J. O’Neill, a prominent horse fancier of Chicago, is at the Palace. G. G. Peters, one of the leading mer- chants of Boston, is at the 2alace. C. B. Broadbent, a business man of Mercer, Pa., is a guest at the Russ. Mrs. Mills Sanford and Miss Miller of San Luis Obispo are at the Occidental. . W. D. Davis, a well-known business man of Santa Rosa, is at the Baldwin. H. J. Wallace, a large business man of San Jose, is at the Grand with his wife. *eesseeeeeeeeses Pasing the win- : ter at the Oceci- A NIMROD dental is a young ¢ lady, the daugh- IN ter of a wealthy SKIRTS. mine owner. Though she is a **oeeeeeeeeeee (elicate girl of less than 5 feet in height, she has acquired a reputation as a hunter of big game of which any man would be proud. Her home is situated in the roughest part of one of our wildest mining districts, and the most savage denizens of the Califor- nia forests abound in great numbers. For this young lady, however, they have no terrors, for, armed with a rifle, bowie knife and revolver, she rides for miles through the desolate fastnesses, which she has known since childhood, with per- fect confidence in her ability to take care of herself. Five deer, one black bear and numerous wildcats, to say nothing of smaller animals, have attested with their lives to the prowess of this Diana of the California woods. g 5 + Themas Hopper, president of the Bank 0: Santa Rosa, is staying at the Caiifor- nia. S. C. Hildreth and F. M. Taylor, two trainers for Lucky Baldwin, are at the Baldwin. B. U. Steinman, ex-Mayor of Sac- ramento, will be at the Palace for the next few days. H. E. Huntington, of the Southern Pa- cific Company, has gone over the road as far as Los Angeles. Dr. H. N. Cear, a prominent physician of Btockton, is registered at the Califor- nia with his wife and son. Professor P. G. Allandice of Stanford University, has come up to the city and is staying at the California. Lieutenant Lucian Young, U. S. N., is down from the navy yard accompanied by his wife. They are at the Palace. James McDonald, the trainer for W. B. Macdonough and handler of the world famous Ormonde, is at the Grand. Mrs. McClatchy, the wife of the editor of the Sacramento Bee, is in the city for a few days. She is staying at the Cali- fornia. J. C. Stubbs, vice-president of the Southern Pacific Company, leaves to- night for New York. Mr. Stubbs will be accompanied as far as New York by his two daughters, who are to spend a few months in Dresden and other parts of Europe. +4ooeoseseseseese Though there is © nothing more i TAUGHT charming than the real article in MANNERS BY A English gentility, i MENIAL. Set i e 4 globe - trotting e aborigine of “The Tight Little Isle,” whom we are accustomed to see drift in here with large checks on his clothes and small ones in them, is anything but a pleasant subject to contemplate socially. He seems to feel that he has the opportunity to appear to be what he never was at home—a man of consequence, and his method of impress- ing others is to totally disregard those little forms of politeness which are dis- tinctive of the gentleman all the world over. A tourist of this sort received a les- son the day before yesterday which may do him good. The party in question has been at one of the leading hotels for the last few days, and has succeeded in mak- ing himself thoroughly detested by his boorishness. On Thursday evening, wish- ing to speak to an acquaintance who.was in the dining-room, he strolled into that place with his hands in his trousers poc- kets and his hat on his head. He had succeeded in getting about half way across the room when he was stopped by the head waiter, who removed the hat from his head and, giving it to him, took him quietly by the arm and led him to the door of the room, where he ex- plained to the man from England that even in the wild and woolly West there were some things that did not go, and bowed him out. The descendant of the Saxon kings said not a word, but took his medicine like a lamb. —_—— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—F. K. Perkins, Oakland, Riggs House; Oliver Tobin, San Francisco, Shoreham; S. A. Wood Jr., San Francisco, Ebbitt House. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. At 30 marriage is the wine of life; at 40 it's the morning after. A man is quiet when he's dead; a woman is dead when she’s quiet. Every woman is a mirror of her bosom friend to her husband and a mirror of her husband to her bosom friend. The first slfn that a woman is be- ginning te feel her age is when she hunts gp all the baby pictures of her chil- ren. When you see a girl's eyes look as though she had been crying, she has gen- erally met with some great grief, or else she has just had her bath and couldn’t gnd her silk starch-bag.—New York Tess. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. It is getting so that the shopping sec- tion is no place for a really modest man. The reason why there is one place that is really hot is because the devil doesn't have to pay any bills for coal. Sooner or later every woman that hasn’t enough to do gets to a point where she wants to meet and resolve things. A girl always enjoys being a bridesmaid because she knows that all the men will tell her she looks sweeter than the bride. ‘When a woman tries to think what to give her husband for Christmas she looks the house over to see what it needs most. Probably the Klondike miners preferred to stay and starve to death because if they went back all their best friends would say “I told you so.”—New York Press. Cal.glace fruit 50c perlb at Townsend's.® —— Guilleticecream. %95 Larkin. Tel. East198.¢ —_—— E. H. Black, painter. 19 Ellis street. » —_——— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press CIIDMI* Bureau (Alled's), - gomery st. Tel. Main 1042. Do o Alaska. Investors all agree that immense profits will be realized by inland transpertation. The best that now offers safe and rapid transit is the Skaguay and Lake Bennett - SUDTY And investigats at Foome i and hg To0; Erocker bullding, - ¢ FOomS 13 and 5,