The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 14, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN JANUARY 14, 1898 JANUARY 14, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propnelor.» Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager, o PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Telephone Main 1568. EDITORIAL ROOMS. 217 to 221 Stevenson strea Telephone Main 187 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is cerved by carrlers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.. CAKLAND OFFICE i Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. 4 NEW YORK OFFICE. Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON D. C. OFFICE . €. 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 Mission streets; open until So'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh st open untli9 o'clock, 1505 Polk street open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock. .One vear, by mall, $1.50 ..908 Broadway ¢s House 'he Plunger Goose eiatior THEr éiJNAWAY HORSE. /™ ONCERNING the intelligence of the | b horse has been some discussion, in- | - memory serves us, when Job | n by a siege of boils reduced to a state of fulness. Job's opinion was that the horse day wi safety, and there been no i nt since. A horse that scares at a piece of paper and runs away is not ctual leit that horse The as an intellc Neither is the m who had juine will be controlled that g umption by what for some reason never explained is known “horse se ' has nothing upon which to rest. be blessed as to ver s, but the driven is without it, 1s b : have escaped no- T'hereiore the driver who leaves a horse un- ed should be held rasponsible for any and all e done by the al while engaged in run- ning away. The horse is not to blame. He is as created and trained. That he shouid know more onable expectation. Yet when he is leit in the noisy street untethered and fails to run aw and smash things he clearly proves that he does know more than his master. As he knows so little, else could not be a horse, a atural conc possess a share of th exceptio tice. hitc! dam anim than his master is not a re: ion is that the master must be pain- short on gray matter. @ FOOLISH BOODLER. HE Mission street organ of Colonel Mazuma, T t of confidence which is truly astonish- it is perfectly willing to submit all its charter “‘cinches” to the people as alternate proposi- tions. This confirms what we suggested a few ago, namely, that the Boodler thinks the election held on December 27 last was carried by Colonel Mazuma, and that a majority of the people voting thereat declared in favor of restoring it to the pay- roll of the Southern Pacific Railroad monopoly. In our judgment, however, the Boodler is ex- ccedingly foolish to submit its “cinches” as alternate propositions. It may be mistaken as to the verdict of the Freeholder election. The people are some- times absent minded in expressing themselves at the ballot boxes, and it is barely possible that they did not have that $30,0c0 “advertising” contract in mind at all. They may have voted the Citizens’ Commit- tee ticket for the purpose of getting a chance to smash another Lord Mayor charter. They may have voted it for fun, just as they used to vote for Dr. O'Donnell, or they may have voted it for any one of a thousand other reasons entirely discon- nected with the interests of the Boodler. However this may be, it is certamn that if the Boodler permits the Freeholders to eubmit its “cinches” as alternate propositions it may as well re- linquish all idea of getting another “advertising” con- tract out of the Southern Pacific. Not only will sev- eral alternate propositions give the corporations, the bosses and the “push” a chance to trade for votes, but by concentrating on any one or more of the ar- ticles so separately submitted either one or all of these malign influences can “plump” the “cinches” out. The Boodler can never, for instance, hope to carry ite scheme for forfeiting the franchises of the Market Street Railway Company by any such sys- tem. The amount the company might be called upon to pay on an “advertising” contract, if expended at the polls, would easily defeat that proposition. * ' When we suggested the alternate plan we assumed, of course, that the Boodler would at once oppose it. We are, therefore, amazed at the confident air with which it accepts the issue. We can account for its attitude on only one of two theories. Either the re- sponsible editor is out of town and the printer's devil is in charge of the editorial page, or the Boodler is coming down with softening of the brain. The country journalists of ye olden time used to ex- plain their errors of utterance on the former basis. Certainly, the Boodler can never expect to regain its old place on the Southern Pacific payroll by sub- mitting its “cinches” as slternate propositions. The corporations would ask nothing softer than that. Can it be possible that the organ of Colonel Mazuma is losing its mind? If the responsible editor is in town and the devil is not in charge it would seem to look that way. i e — People will be slow to believe that the terrible murders recently committed near Boston were done by Dunham, the Californian who made so fearful a record at San Jose. There 1s no doubt that Dunham would, if living, be capable of any deed of horrid cruelty, but the belief that his bones bleach somewhere in the foothills is a comfort which there is no desire to relinquish. —— While Mr. Philbrook is in the business of suing IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION. OW that the bill for the restriction of immigra- h tion has been brought before Congress by the speech of Senator Fairchild, it is to be hoped the measure will be taken up in earnest and pressed to a prompt enactment. It should not be made to wait on any other question whatever. The need of it is urgent, and there is no reason why there should be any delay. The Republican party and the administration are pledged to the passage of some measure of the kind. The St. Louis platform declares: For the protection of the equality of our American citizenship and of the wages of our workingmen against the fatal competi- tion of low priced labor, we demand that the immi- gration laws be thoroughly enforced, and tended as to exclude from entrance to the States those who can neither read nor write.” In his letter of acceptance President McKinley said: “The declaration of the platform touching im- migration is one of peculiar importance at this time, when ourownlaboring peopleare in suchgreatdistress. I am in hearty sympathy with the present legislation restraining foreign immigration, and favor such ex- tension of the laws as will secure the United States from invasion by the debased and criminal classes of the Old World It will be noted there is a slight difference between the language used by the President and that of the platio to exclude SO ex- United criminal m. The one proposes | classes and the other demands the exclusion of those who can neither read nor write. The difference is hardly more than one of words. As a rule the crim- inal element among the foreign immigrants is coin- ident with the illiterate element. At any rate the foreigner who can neither read nor write is hardly fitted to become a citizen of the United States, and as | it is not possible to devise a means by which to de- termine criminal potencies among immigrants the educational test called for by the platform is perhaps the best that can be effectively applied in practice. President Winston of the University of Texas peinted out at the recent “Prison Congress” that the foreign element in the country is one and a half times as criminal as the native white element, and that h: the foreign criminals are not naturalized. He strongly advocated closing the country to illiterate immigrants of all kinds, and said it would be economy on our part to shut them out even if we had to donate $2 000,000 annually to support them in their own coun- tries It is well known that the character of the immi- gration to the United States has undergone a notable change in recent years. Formerly our immigrants came from the British Islands or from Northern and Western Europe. Their civilization was virtually the same as our own and they were easily assimilated with the native population. Of late years there has been a rapid increase of immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe, and the great majority of the new comers are too alien to us to understand either our government or our social life. Most of them are illiterates and would be excluded by an educational test as advocated by Senator Fairchild. With reviving prosperity there will be an increased incentive to such immigrants to come to the United States, and therefore the expediency of closing the doors at once is too apparent to need argument. THE LOS ANGELES SCHOOL SCANDAL. ACH successive development in the Los An- E geles school scandal makes more evident the need of a far reaching, penetrating and thor- oughly comprehensive investigation of the whole subject. At the present time the charges and counter charges 1made by the opposing parties to the con- troversy are so equally balanced as, to render decisive judgment impossible. It will probably require an ex- amination in court, with testimony given under the solemnity of oath and subject to rigid cross examin- ation, to make clear the facts involved in the present confusion. All that is quite certain is that much in the way of evil and forbidden practices has been going on in the management of the public schools of Los Angeles. The League for Better City Government is entitled to the credit of having brought these practices to public notice and started the movement to expose them and punish the authors. The exposure, how- ever, seems to have gone further than the league in- tended, or at least to have disclosed wrongdoing in quarters wholly unexpected. As a result some of the members of the league have turned aside from the object originally aimed at and are now acting more like partisans in the contest than impartial investi- gators seeking the truth and desirous only to acquit the innocent, but let no guilty man escape. The Call from the first has taken a keen interest in the investigation. Malfeasance or misfeasance in the public schools affects one of the most important fea- tures of our social organism. Corruption in our edu- cational system is a thing not to be tolerated in any part of the State. Public sentiment, so prone to indifference in maftters of local administration, is re- solved on that point. The Call was therefore acting in strict accord with popular ideas of the duty of the press to the people when it set about aiding the in- vestigation at Los Angeles and making known every particle of the evidence given on either side, whether for attack or defense. To angry disputants the impartial man seems an enemy to both. The attitude of The Call in the course of the Los Angeles investigation has exposed it to that form of misrepresentation. Because it pub- lished in full the charges of the league and the evi- dence given by Axtell and Adams it was called an enemy of Trustee Webb. Because it permitted Mr. Webb to defend himself and publishea a statement of his side of the case in a letter written and signed by himself it is accused of being an enemy of the league. This misconstruction was not unexpected. He that takes part in a hard fight must expect blows. The Call is fighting for the truth and for the punishment of any person proven guilty of wrongdoing. In that fight it is regardless of men, parties or factions. It hews to the line, letting the chips fall where they may. Its object is to publish nothing but the truth, but also to publish the whole truth, and the only way by which that can be accomplished i5 the publication of the testimony on both sides. Citizens of Los Angeles who wish to learn both sides of the controversy in order that they may judge it fairly must read The Call, as it is the only paper in the State now pushing this investigation with no other object than that of exposing guilty parties and showing the people the evidence that convicts them. As Minister to China Conger will have more to do with protecting the rights of Americans than several distinguished gentlemen it is a wonder he named so small a sum as half a million when a whole million would have been so much more im- pressive. Possibly, however, Mr. Philbrook thinks the former amount all he can conveniently handle. Some people have no desire to be embarrassed with riches. ever fell to his lot in Brazil, and in the latter place he never did it particularly /well. Perhaps, however, if the occasion is large he will rise to it. There will be a pretty fight between ex-Senator Hill and the Tiger. When it is over Hill may show the marks of claws, but the chances are that the 1 Tiger’s scalp won’t be on straight either. CURREI‘EY REFORM. FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, ITH a view to fairly stating the plan for re- W form of our financial and banking system, re- | ported by the volunteer monetary commis- sion, we have presented the parts covering the stand- { ard of value, the silver currency and the demand ob- ligations of the treasury. Under the latter head it will be seen that the proposed treasury division of issue and redemption will: (a) Pay out gold coin for gold certificates. (b) Pay out gold coin in redemption of green- backs and the notes of 1890, (c) Pay out silver dollars for silver certificates of any denomination. (d) Issue silver certificates of denominations of $1, $2 and $5 in exchange for silver dollars and for silver certificates of denominations above $s (e) Pay out gold coin in exchange for silver dol- lars. () Pay out silver dollars in exchange for gold, greenbacks or notes of 180, (g) Pay out greenbacks or notes of 1800, not sub- ject to immediate cancellation, in exchange for gold com. (h) Pay out and redeem subsidiary coins as now provided by law. (i) Pay out United States notes in exchange for currency certificates. In the national banking system proposed no bank shall issue notes in excess of its paid-up and unim- paired capital, exclusive of its real estate. All such notes are a first lien upon all assets of the bank, in- and minor cluding its stockholders’ liability. No such notes shall be in denominations of less than $10. Up to an amount of 25 per cent of the capital stock of the bank, unimpa red, the notes issued by it shall not exceed the value of United States bonds de- posited in the treasury. Five years aiter passage of the act the amount of United States bonds to be de- posited against notes issued shall be reduced each year by one-fifth of the per cent of capital, and thereafter any bank may at any time withdraw any bonds deposited in excess of the requirement. Any bank may deposit any lawful money with the treasury for retirement of its notes, and every such deposit shall be treated as a reduction, to that ex- tent, of its outstanding notes. Other provisions relate to taxation of national banks and improvements in their supervision, and for a change of banks now in commission to the new system. In brief, the intention of the commission’s plan is to secure a system with these features: 1. To be national, with better national oversight. Its note issues to be based upon readily converti- ble bank assets. 3. A limitation of the amount of note issues to the 4. A further security in a common guaranty fund, in which all the banks in the system guarantee the and uniformity in value for the notes as now. 5. Continuance of the present redemption fund and of redemption. 6. A further security in the liability of the share- 7. And a system whose continuance will not de- pend upon a permanent national debt with United Bankers who see the bill in detail will observe that the last is the chief difference between the proposed mitted is evidently formed so as to produce as gradual a change to sounder and more desirable methods as country’s finance and business. The Monetary Conference is called to reassemble commercial and financial organizations are invited to send delegates thereto. freely discussed and explained at this meeting, and no doubt great interest in the whole question will be THE SOUTH AND THE FAIR. : :()M.\IE.\'TI.\' 3 upon a recent statement of the day recognize South California as a gold or silver producing region,” the San Bernardino Sun time the people of that section enlightened the ignor- ance of the metropolis. Francisco capitalists have been told of the ‘prospects’ with which the Imperial County, as well as half a believe it. But if an actual exhibit of ores were made they might be convinced. Seecing is believing, and more than could be done by talk in a thousand years.” sure to accrue to the “Imperial County” and to the south generally from a good exhibit at the mining felt it necessary to add: “Here is where we again feel the need of some organization at the county seat creditable display is made. But we have no such or- ganization. No display will be made, and San Fran- fornia mines are largely ‘talk.” ” The mere lack of an organization at the county of the mineral wealth of so rich a county as San Ber- nardino at an exposition of such opportune impor- this winter. The men who are interested in mines and mining should get together and arrange some resources of their section. The fair is not to be a holiday frolic. It means business. enterprise and their energy. If their section is not well and brilliantly represented at the exposition the of mineral resources from which to make exhibits. Thus the south will suffer not only negatively, but spicuous part in an exposition of the mining indus- tries and interests of the whole Pacific Coast. ganization at the county seat of San Bernardino to prepare the exhibit then the progressive men out- perial County” possesses in the way of gold, silver and other minerals. 4 Senator Cannon’s proposition to have a ducking stool provided for statesmen will strike people who the Congressional Record the average citizen has often found himself wondering how so many old unimpaired capital of the issuing bank. notes of any one bank, securing the same confidence method of redemption, as now, with increase in plans holders to the full par of their shares States bonds as its basis. system and the present. Indeed the whole plan sub- possible and with the minimum of disturbance to the at Indianapolis on the 25th of this month, and all It is expected that the commission’s plan will be stimulated. Citrograph that 1 Francisco does not to- agrees with The Call that ii such be the case it is The Sun very cogently says: “It may be that San dozen other counties, are blessed and have refused to a few pieces of glittering quartz would accomplish Aiter such a forcible presentation of the advantages exposition in this city, it is to be regretted the Sun which would take the matter in hand and see that a cisco will probably go on believing that South Cali- seat should not prevent an adequate representation tance as that which is to be held in San Francisco kind of exhibition to attract attention to the mineral The men of South California are noted for their visitors from the East will attribute the fact to a lack positively, if anything prevents it from taking a con- The issue cannot be ignored. If there is no or- side should get to work and show what the “Im- e —— are not statesmen as being excellent. In reading scolds ever got together. |COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS Joseph D. Lynch, a Los Angeles editor, is staying at the Lick. J. W. Lanley and wife of Victoria, B. C., are at the Occidental. ‘W. J. Spenser, a prominent merchant of St. Paul, is at the California. J. H. Emhorn, a prominent resident of Santa Rosa, is registered at the Califor- nia. W. R. Cruthers, a well known merchant of Santa Rosa, is at the Lick for a few days. George E. Malcome, a popular business man of Augusta, Me., is a guest at the Palace. George W. Schrader, a leading business man of New York, is a guest at the Baldwin. R. E. Cooper and wife arrived from Victoria, B. C., yesterday, and went to the Palace. State Senator James McCudden, ac- companied by his daughter, is staying at the Baldwin. Lieutenant G. Blocklinger, U. 8. N., came down from Mare Island yesterday and went to the Occidental. Calvin Edgerton, one of the foremost lawyers of Los Angeles, is in the city. He is staying at the Grand. Doughtery, a ranch owner of Big Springs, Tex., is on a visit to this city with his wife. They have taken rooms at the Occidental. ¢ of Glenn, who has been in settling up the estate of a brother who recently died there, returned yesterday on the Alameda. He is ing at the Grand. Trumbull White, who has been to Ha- walil as special correspondent of the Chi ago Record, arrived on the terday on his way home. mpanied by Mrs. White. The Stanford Gle strong, passed day on their way club has been ma southern portion of the State. They took lunch at the Occidental and sang a few of their most popular selections for the other guests. s Alameda He is ac- % 3 * I O. Carter of f GOING TO ] Honolulu, who 3 STUDY : formerly a ~ high official un- b ARCHI- § der the mon- ! TECTURE. § archy, ana who *seesecsscsssee 15 NOW One of the strongest cates for the return of roy: ands, arrived in the city Alameda. Mr. Carter was seen yvesterday in the office of the Occidental and was questio ed as to the object of his visit to the United States. He denied that his pre ent trip had any politic but 1 d that he had merely come up for gnificance, nal r sons, though he thought that ns would him ashington, where he ex- to spend some time around the apitol admiring the architectural beau- of that famous building, of which he heard so much, but which he ver It is a curious coincidence that bon as President Dole of Hono- lulu heard of the departure of Mr. Carter from the i became filled with an overpowering desire to gaze up- on the beauties of the White House and took the next steamer following the on which his political opponent had ed to satisfy his artistic longing. The steamer on which President Dole is trav- eling is the Peru, which is expected to arrive here to-day or to-morrow. seen. s Baron and Baroness Von Schroeder are at the Palace. 8. T. Smallfield, a resident of Mexico, is at the Californ Judge J. M. Fulweiler of Auburn is at the Lick for a few days. John W. Howell, a well-known lawye: of Merced, is at the Lick. John F. Moody, a lumber merchant of Truckee, is staying at the Lick. M. E. C. Mundy, a prominent attorney of Los Angeles, is staying at the Lick. F. Cogswell, a real estate ance man of Lodi, has reg Grand. Paul C. Morf, one of the brightest law- yers of the Stockton bar, is a guest at the Grand. F. P. Black, one of the best known merchants of San Jose, is a guest at the G and insur- stered at the C aptain Cooper, of the British ship Royal Forth, is at the Occidental with his wife. James M. Dobbs, a merchant of Val- paraiso, Chile, is at the California with his family. Governor James Kinkead of Nevada, who arrived in the city yesterday, is at the Palace. H. M. Van Dems, a prominent resident of Portland, Ore., is at the California with his wife. Dr. George Franklin Shiels, who has been seriously ill at his rooms in the California, is rapidly recovering. Mrs. E. Bennett and Miss E. Whitney, two ladies who arrived from Sydney by the Alameda, are at the California. Ex-State Treasurer Drury Melone is at the Palace with his wife and son. They are down to the city for a short visit from their home at Oak Knoll. The following passengers of the Ala- meda, which arrived yesterday, are reg- istered at the Occidental: J. L. Howard, Honolulu; A. W. Wedderburn, Sydney, N. S. W.; A. P. Caetobardie and famil; Zealand. *eesescccccccee Staying at the Palace is Hon, KLONDIKE I:rankn Jones of New Hampshire, FEVER IN a millio nl:iirreo SEATTLE. business man of that State,whose name is as well known throughout New England as is the name of Stanford in California. Mr. Jones has been a leader in the politics of his State, going twice to Congress from there and being five times the chair- man of the State delegation to the na- tional conventions from New Hampshire, one of the conventions being the one that nominated Horace Greeley for the Presi- dency. He is out on the coast on busi- ness connected with his extensive affairs, and has just arrived in the city on his way from Seattle to Los Angeles. Speak- ing of the outlook for Klondike travel in the spring, Mr. Jones said: “I thought there was some excitement in the East over the Alaskan mining boom, but 1 had to reach Seattle to really comprehend the passion for gold that has taken hold of the people. I never saw anything like it. The streets are crowded with all sorts and conditions of humanity, and the only thought that seems to possess the entire assemblage is the wealth to be had in the north. You of this city may think you are doing some Klondike busi- ness, but things are dull here when com- paréd with the way things are running up there. All the outfitting stores are doing a land office business, and the man who cannot discuss plans for getting away in the spring is an individual not worthy of consideration.” —_—— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Jan. 13—Paul Dinsmore of San Francisco is at the Waldorf apd G. G. McKay of Los Angeles is at the Hotel Bartholdi seesececescscces — CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON, ‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—F. A. Leach, superintendent of the Mint at San Fran- cisco, arrived in Washington to-day and registered at the Hamilton Hotel. He is here to protest against any decrease in the allowance for clerk hire at the Mint. E. L. Lane of San Francisco is at the National. Attorney Louis P. Boardman i 1 derful if you California reals, these strange very old. the; day's Call. within 100 miles of San Francisco? India is still a step or two ahead of us. them had been alone—but wait for the Any woman who i should get next Sunday’s paper. The are carefully drawn with full directions «ueer, curious and intéresting matter. abroad” that will repay perusal. fruits and # entists like them. have just been dug up in Southern Californ:a. belonged to a roving mammoth. 1S been interviewed, but the story told by his bones will be found in next Sun- ing you don’t have to go any further than certain lowlands on the S River bottom. Two venturesome young men tried it last week. from a vicious old “tusker” is told by him in next Sunday X a interested in having her hair dressed in the latest mode In addition to these good things there is g Stories for the children and fiction for the older folks, news of the latest and best books, what is going on in th; theaters, fraternal, school and mining news, and stories from “at home an BE SURE AND READ NEXT SUN (GOOD THINGS IN NEXT_SUNDAY’S CALL ERHAPS ycu think your experience would be won- were obliged to live in a wortd where every object appeared turned upside down. Things }do appear strange in such a place; ‘iting around that fact. | fessor has just finished I | such an inverted world. " how he did it, why he did it and what strange ex H’ periences he had for eight days, READ NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL. One of the wickedest, the shrewdest and the most heartless of the has just been killed in Kiaochau. ta big price set upon his | the English coast guard, old fox escaped their guns and continuec unsuspecting and helpless merchantmen. If you curious to know how the English finall this crafty old villain, together with 1 the wickedest and most heartless Chin that ever inv ¢ want to know how the old scamp escaped while hundreds of his followers were shot and 500 be- headed on the plain, READ NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL. there’s no get- An inquiring Berkeley pro- iving for a time in just If you want to find out pirates with Chinese For head, he was p and for years the craft 1 to loot are penned up more of pirates if you old race of se ested the Eastern seas, and is producing a great deal of gold, ce- other things just now. Among things are bones, plain bones, but The older they are the better the sci- A lot of these very old bones Once He hasn’t Did you know that you can get the best kind of jungle wild hog hunting For good pig stickin though, perhaps But for wild and exurting boar )lunf— n Joaquin If one of How he barely escaped Call. whole story. sh and prevailing coiffures for 1898 in the way of their arrangement. an excellent assortment of quaint, DAY’S CALL. French journals, in the issue of (ORIGINAL.) L’AFFAIRE DREYFUS. Un journal de San Francisco, the Examiner, a publiz dans son numero du 21 novembre une lettre qu’il dit avoir recue de Mme. Lucie Dreyfus. Cette lettre serait datee du 12 no- vembre, 1897. Mme. Dreyfus apres avoir declare qu’elle possede les preuves de Vinno- cence de son mari, se montrait resolus a les produire. Un parentde Mme. Dreyfus nous a declare qus cette lettre est apocryphe. Mme. Dreyfus ne con- | nait personne en Amerique et n’a rien | ecrit de semblable. | POCOUVOVLOLRVOVARVVURCVOORSOONY 0m:u:f,o:nafififififianufiaogaafian&fib $:3:3-3-2-3-3=3=3 AN EXAMINER FORGERY LAID BARE. The Paris newspaper, Le Temps, the most important of all explanatory notice, which is here reproduced : f=3egeRagagueFugug=gug=Fugagegegage ogeg=ge3=gug=3eg=-gug=g =g Tug=3x] 3 December 17 last, has a Self- (TRANSLATION.) THE DREYFUS CASE. A San Francisco newspaper, the Examiner, has published in its issue of November 21 a letter which it says it has received from Mrs. Lucie Drey- fus. In this letter, dated November 12, 1897, Mrs. Dreyfus declares that she possesses the proofs of her hus- band’s complete innocence, and that she is determined to produce them. A relative of Mrs. Dreyfus de- clares that this letter does not exist. Mrs. Dreyfus knows no- body in America and has never written anything of this kind. 00100 06 108 K06 300 308 108 300 100 00 308 308 106 30K 30K 308 XK 308 306 30X 30X 308 0K 3G 308 30X 568 40 X of San Francisco leaves to-morrow for | New York. He will remain there two or three days and then, returning to Washington will leave on Monday for home by way of the southern route. W. | F. Parker of Los Angeles is at the St. James, after staying in Washington sev- eral weeks. Colonel True of Californi who has been a candidate for thie Mar- shalship, has given up the fight and will leave for his home in a few days. THE COAST PRESS. The Gilroy Gazette will appear this week in an enlarged form, and many other improvements are contemplated by the enterprising new editor and pro-| prietor, E. D. Crawford. The town of Palo Alto has risen from the ranks of weekly paper communities, and, with the Twice-a-Week Times to be- gin with, expects to be scanning the col- umns of a local daily before the end of the year. C. F. Hager of Los Gatos has succeeded Edward H. Clark as editor and publisher of the Templeton Advance. According to announcement, the paper will now be run “straight in the middle of the road” | “without fear or favor of any party, fac- tion or person.” For information concerning the rich and productive county of San Diego the beautiful illustrated New Year's edition of the Union of San Diego is a valuable | p: It is a veritable en- eyelopedia about California’s emi-tropical southern borderland. William Thompson and A. E. Hadley have dissolved partnership in the publi- cation of the Alturas Plaindealer, the lat- ter-named person retiring. The paper has prospered bevond expectations and boasts that its circulation is at the head of the list in Modoc County. The Lompoc Journal is another news- paper to undergo a change of manage- ment at the beginning of the new vear. H. A. Averill retires from the editorial chair and the new occupant of that dig- nified piece of furniture is George W. Jenkins, a man of ability ana of consid- erable experience in journalism. The Portland (Or.) Tribune is steadily growing in size, and its constant im- provement is certainly a strong evidence of its increasing popularity. Its sixteen- page Sunday edition reflects much credit on the newspaper men who are contest- ing a field hitherto practically monopo- lized by that influential journal, the Ore- gonian. Charles F. Montgomery of Antioch has purchased the Contra Costa News from Alfred Dalton Jr. and will change the po- litical complexion of the publication from Republican to Democratic. The News is a handsome paper and has been a faith- ful and effective exponent of the attrac- tions of Martinez and the adjacent coun- try. The Oceanside Blade has in preparation a souvenir number, which will be issued on the 15th, and which will contain com- prehensive data relating to fruit-growing and pianting, lemon and olive culture and general farming in a very favored portion of San Diego County. The edition will be illustrated and will contain an account of the progress made in the Oceanside vicin- ity during the past two years. The Weaverville Journal celebrated its forty-third birthday last week. It de- clares that the future of Trinity County is more than promising, and that the sec- tion is ribbed with paying quartz and cov- ered with auriferous gravel. The Coffee Creek boom, while not justified by the nature: of the discoveries, has been of benefit to that locality, as a number of new claims are being operated to golden advantage. ‘Wallace C. Brown has succeeded S. F. Barstow on the editorial throne of the Marin Journal, and the indications point to a continuation of the paper’s success under the new order of things. Mr. Brown is brimful of enterprise, and be- ing determined to see whether or not San Rafael can maintain a daily paper, has ady launched the Evening Journal, :h will be devoted to local affairs, and “will offer its columns and influence to all that tends to the public good.” The daily is a bright, sprightly sheet, and will doubtless be well received by the people of Marin Coun ANSWERS TO CORRESPON REPTILES IN IRELANT City. Reptiles are not -R. L. indigenous Ireland, yet there is nothing in the soil or climate to prevent them from living in C.. to that country. In 1831 harmless species were introduced in the County Down, being ed out in the garden of the Rath Gail House. One of th was killed -t ) S er Leing at liber! . two more were killed within six weeks, but the other two were not traced, although reward was of- fered for them. 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