The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 21, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1898. : .JANUARY 21, 1808 VJOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS. ...2IT to 221 Stevenson straet T hone Main 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) 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... OAKLAND OFFICE ... Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE . €. C. CARLTON, Correspos BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street. eorner Clay: open untll 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 MoAllister street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 6I5 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until So'clock. 2518 Misslon 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 and Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock. One year, by mall, $1.50 AMUSEMENTS. The Man From Mexico.” ‘A Man's Love” and “Forbidden Fruit." “The Blue and the Gray.” \ rman-Hebrew Opera Co., to-morrow nigh Eddy and Mason sts.—Kuch ner's Ladies’ Orchestra, r Tlustons. ires. 10-mOrrow afternoon. AUCTION SALES. T . January 21, Turkish Rugs, —Tuesday, January 25, Real Es- k. 18 Montgomery 112 o'cloc THE ;QE@DY WARRANT. T is not surprising that the professors at Stanford should be torn by emotion over the of one of their number. The man arrested was of course innocent, the bucolic constable would never have made him prisoner. Yet it is ap- parent that the objecting professors base their in- dignation on this fact. Certainly it is better that a warrant should have been served upon an innocent professor than upon a ghilty one. Had the accused been the “John Doe” for whom the constable was looking Stanford would have felt itseli swept by a flush of shame from which it, happily, is now free. Ii Professor Dudley, by the mere inconeenience of being kept a short time in jail, shall awaken the pub- lic to the fact that there is too great a tendency to arrest citizens who happen to wander into the vicinity arrest otherwise of a constable, he should not begrudge the time nor the discomiort. To be near a constable is not neces- sarily a cr! An indiscretion it may be, but so long 1 d. as constables do not carry signs the most worthy professors are apt to driit into this form of error. What the average constable n is common sense. But havin quired this he would immediately re- sign, so the path to a better state of things is dark and devious. But we contend that a professor has a right to go nosing after specimens of flora and to wear his oldest clothes while doing it and not be thrown in jail be- cause he fails to answer the fool questions of a con- stable who is snooping around for a chance to try a “John Doe” warrant on somebody. In this we are confident of having the support of President Jordan and every member of his distinguished staff. s e ———resmene. FARMERS AGAINST ANNEXATION. T is time for the American farmer to have his in- l nings in politics. In a nérmal year our farm lands produce a surplus of the bread and feed grains, far beyond domestic consumption. This surplus must go abroad for a market and must sell at the world’s price in competition with the land and labor of all other countries of competitive production. In this situation, if we are large consumers of a product of the soil, which we must import but which we can raise at home under proper encouragement, 1t is the height of folly not to turn our lands and labor to that pur- pose. We consume sugar to the amount of more than $100,000,000 annually in excess of our produc- tion. The most of this is beet sugar. In 1884 the world produced of cane sugar 2,180,000 and of beet sugar 2,600,000 long tons. In 1894 the production was cane sugar 3,080,000 and beet sugar 4,790,000 long tons. Production and consumption increase about 7 per cent a year. It is demonstrated that our farm lands can produce in beet sugar our entire consumption. Withdrawing them from production of the bread and feed grains and putting them into sugar beets will reduce our surplus of the former with a favorable effect on the price they will bring at home and abroad. Our farmers will gain not only this enhanced price, but will keep at home the $100,000,000 now spent abroad for sugar. This will also add a valuable crop to their present list of production and gain in POs- sibility of rotation of crops so necessary to the sus- tained fertility of the soil. There are 10,000,000 American farmers and 30,000, 000 of our citizens directly dependent upon agricul- ture for a living and a competence. The American farmer is no longer a peasant. He is a producer and a merchant. He knows the effect upon his industry and his interests of far climates, of distant competing fields, of domestic and international politics. He knows, too, the advantage of his posi- tion in this republic and proposes to get a share of the profits that generate under our system of laws. He is opposed to the extension of that system to any distant country and the dilution of his advantages by bestowing them on others. It is for these reasons that the American farmer opposes the annexation of Hawaii, with a large debt to be paid out of his substance and a prospective tax of hundreds of millions to fortify the islands and build navies to control and defend them. The Ameri- can continental policy of the republic is good enough for the American farmer and he wants no change. — The wife of an actor has just secured a divorce which permits her to marry again, but denies to the ex-husband a similar boon. Such decrees are prob- ably made to show the court’s state of mind, and as matters of law may possess great excellence. As a matter of fact, however, men are either married or they are not, and they will take this view just as soon as occasion may arise. Only a decent respect for the feeling and reputation of the swine checks a natural impulse to say that the Hanford man who ate sixty-two =ggs at a sitting is 2 hog. 9 WARNING OF THE LOS ANGELES CASE. HE unpopularity of corporations in this coun- Ttry is due to their own conduct, or at least to the conduct of some of them. In the nature of things there is no reason why the business of a corporation should be done differently from that of an individual. Corporations and partnerships and individuals use capital for profit in enterprises. In each case con- tracts are made and there is buying and selling. The ethics of these transactions do not change with the parties to them. The unpopularity of corporations has arisen in the disposition of some to violate contracts, rue bargains and seek advantages which are not theirs honestly. These acts are most frequently done in corpora- tion contracts with public officers, the representatives of the people in their political government. Muni- cipal Councils, Boards of Supervisors, State Legis- latures and the Federal Congress have been the legal bodies most frequently manipulated for improper ad- vantage by corporations. If these bodies had always been composed of a majority of wise and upright men, insusceptible of such approach, scandal would not have been made and corporations would have been kept in the line of right conduct and their pres- ent bad repute would never have existed. There is no doubt that members of such legislative bodies have learned more than to give to corporations that which they ought not to have. They have learned that there is profit in threatening to take from them what is theirs by law and right. So we have the legislative “cinch” that is loosened by bribery. Corporations having got what does not belong to them find them- selves able to retain what does only by the payment of money to corrupt public officers. In this way the “parliamentary expenses” of many large corporations have become a burden and legislative blackmail has taken a high place among the black arts of politics. The issue over the water works of Los Angeles is a sample of the methods by which corporations win deserved unpopularity and popular government is brought into contempt. In this case there is a plainly stated contract, under which public property was leased for thirty years to a private corporation. By an expansion in population unforeseen by either party to the contract, it has proved of immense profit to the private corporation. It is about to expire, and its plain recital of what is to be done then leaves no room for any reasonable disagreement. It is the duty of the city government to ‘proceed faithfully and in line with the public in- terest, to arbitrate and ascertain the value of the bet- terments put upon its property by the private cor- poration and acquire the same in the way pointed out by the contract. If this were done the members of the private corporation would surrender the public property they have so profitably used under a lease- hold and would retire with fortunes that none would grudge them. The city officers would get that popular approval deserved by men who do their duty. The communistic movement against all property would get a check and the sum of corporate unpopularity would not be increased. If such sharp and dishonest practices as are illus- trated by this Los Angeles incident are continued un- til public desperation leads to an irresistible attack upon property rights in which guilty and innocent suffer in a common wreck, in the final analysis the blame will rest upon those who refused to be con- tent with fair gains and with fair play. S bill has safely passed the Senate, but according to a number of our Eastern exchanges it will meet with strong opposition in the House. A power- ful combination is working to defeat it, and it is prob- able a long fight as well as a hard one may be re- quired to overcome an opposition so forceful and so determined. The strength of the opposition, so far as is made public, seems to be centered in an association known as the “Immigration Protection League,” which has its headquarters in New York. Bourke Cockran is president of the league and the membership contains many persons hardly less eminent in politics and so- ciety. This league proposes at an early day to hold a mass meeting to protest against the Lodge bill in the hope that the protest will be effective in restrain- ing action in the House. The league is not made up wholly of naturalized foreigners, as the fact that Bourke Cockran is presi- dent of it might lead one to suppose. On the con- trary, it contains many native born Americans whose view of the proposed restriction may be inferred from a recent letter of William Lloyd Garrison denouncing what he called “the inhuman, un-American policy of excluding emigrants.” There is nothing in the Lodge bill to justify ex- citement on the part of the league or the screaming indignation of Mr. Garrison. The measure is cer- tainly neither inhuman nor un-American. On the con- trary it is in the interests of humanity and the wel- fare of Americans. The object is not to exclude im- migrants as such, but persons who are unfitted to as- similate with American society or appreciate the ad- vantages of our political system. It appears that the leaders of the league are mis- representing the scope of the bill in order to cause prejudice against it and to arouse antagonism to it. As a matter of fact the bill will hardly exclude any immigrant from Northern or Western Europe. It has been frequently pointed out by the friends of the proposed measure that immigrants from Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany, France, Great Britain, Ireland and Finland have an average illiter- acy of only 4% to every 100. Very few people of these countries therefore will be excluded. Back of the Immigration Protection League stand the managers of foreign steamship companies, and a considerable number of mine owners who wish to procure cheap labor for their mines. There is busi- ness as well as sentiment in the opposition, and the one is about as bad as the other. Mr. Garrison would have done well to consider the company he is in and the stake the American workingman has in the issue before he indulged the florid rhetoric of denouncing the restriction policy as “inhuman and un-American.” ——— The health officer has been instructed to examine a certain cigar factory and report as to its sanitary con- dition. As he knows in advance that of two persons engaged there in making cigars one is a consumptive and the other a victim of cancer, it may be hoped that he will not find the sanitation so perfect as to induce him to regard the factory useful as a promoter of health. THE IMMIGRATION LEAGUE. ENATOR LODGE'S immigration restriction The collective ear of the country vainly endeav- ors to note any sound of protest provoked by Blanco’s threat to resign. There is nothing slangy in remarking that he is welcome tu resign and be hanged. Perhaps some grocery store eggs are not up to the standard, but a woman who stole a dozen and se- creted them in the bosom of her dress hatched out a thirty day sentence readily enough. THE KLONDIKE TR@ADE. AN FRANCISCO has the Klondike trade. Whether she captured it by energy or whether it came to her by natural attraction matters not. It is hers. All declarations to the contrary on the part of noisy opponents and all doleful croakings on the part of timid residents are refuted by the records of the water front. The traffi: which already has come to San Francisco is pressing upon the limit of trans- portation facilities, and the rush has just begun. It may now be accepted as a settled fact that all | who wish to go to Alaska by any sure and safe transportation line will be virtuaily obliged to come to San Francisco to arrange for the trip. It is from this port all the great steamers and sailing vessels start for the north, and persons who go to any of the way ports and wait for a steamer to come along and pick them up will have their waiting for their pains. Ship-owners are not the only business men of the city who are feeling the impulse of the Alaskan trade. The ship-builders have orders for new vessels that strain the capacity of their plants to build. In every one of them there is ceaseless activity, A whole fleet of new vessels will be added to the commercial marine of the city by the tfme the melting of the ice opens a way to St. Michael and the Yukon River. These, of course, will increase the transportation facilities from this port, but even when all are launched it is doubtful if they will be able to carry any freight other than that which is shipped by our own merchants or by Alaskan parties starting from here. As a matter of fact the Klondike rush has become too great to be adequately dealt with by any city of less size than the metropolis of the coast. When thousands of men are to be outfitted for at least a year in a climate like that of Alaska there are needed to meet the demand large stores and stocks of supplies and large equipments for traffic and trans- | portation. This fact is well understood by those who are preparing to go to the northern gold fields, and as a consequence they are coming here to get their outfits, provisions and mining implements. The Mining Fair will add force to the attractions | which are already drawing the great mass of Klon- dike prospectors to the city. It will offer strong in- ducements to all who contemplate entering upon mining enterprises in any field whatever, and particu- larly so to those who intend to venture into the gold fields of the Yukon. Under any circumstances such an exhibition would be of benedt to the com- munity and to the mining industry, but this comes so opportune to the demands of the time and the place that the good to be expected from it can be hardly overrated. Whatever may have been the shortcomings of San | Francisco in other things, it has certainly shown com- mendable vigor in preparing to profit by the oppor- tunity of the new gold excitement. It has prepared for a big trade, has laid in ample supplies for the traffic, provided increased transportation facilities and opened an exposition to instruct the public in the in- dustry. It has taken energy to accomplish these things, and it is gratifying to know that there is every prospect the energy will be abundantly re- warded. THE WATER FRONT M@ARKET. CCORDING to statements made at a meeting fl of the Board of Harbor Commissioners on Tuesday by members of the Farmers’ Club, the opposition to the establishment of a free public mar- ket upon the water front proceeds from the commis- sion merchants and the river transportation compa- nies whose revenues will be impaired by the enter- prise. The commission merchants do not want to be “regulated” by the Harbor Commissioners, and the river transportation companies engaged in conveying produce to this city are disposed to resent any inter- ference with their business. From the standpoint of these interests there is, of course, nothing improper in the positions they have taken. But it is not readily perceivable what differ- ence it should make to the Harbor Commissioners whether the produce merchants and river transporta- tion companies oppose the free market or not. The act of March 29, 1897, which authorizes the board to establish the market, says nothing about either of those interests. It merely orders the commission peremptorily to set apart a sufficient number of, piers to accommodate all the producers of perishable food products in the State and to connect them with the belt line railroad. The act says “shall,” not “may.” It is therefore mandatory, not permissive. Moreover, it will be difficult for any person whose mental vision is not obscured by prejudices to under- stand why the interests of the commission merchants and river transportation companies should be allowed to block an enterprise which has been conceived for the benefit of every man, woman and child in San Francisco. There are not over 500 men engaged in handling perishable products in this city, and not more than three or four river transportation compa- nies. On the other hand, there are upward of 300,000 men, women and children interested in the free market. Cheap food is the great necessity of the modern world. Schemes for producing and distributing it are the problems of civilization. No peopfe can be pros- perous and happy unless they have sufficient to eat, and the cheaper food products become the easier it is for everybody to attain the chief end of existence, which is physical comfort. The free market author- ized by the late Legislature is a distinct advance in civilization. By bringing producers and consumers together that market will eliminate to a large extent the services of the middlemen, thereby cheapening the food supply of the city. This may be hard on the merchants now engaged in handling preduce. But the introduction of railroads was hard on teamsters and hackmen, and the invention of street cars was exceedingly distasteful to the owners of omnibuses and other conveyances. If the produce dealers cannot turn the free market to account they will simply be compelled to accept the inevitable and charge their destruction over to the immutable laws of progress. The Harbor Commis- sioners have no discretion in the matter. They “must” establish a free market. It is vain for the opposing interests to await the assembling of the Legislature. That body will never repeal the law. English authorities have reached to San Francisco and nabbed a doctor charged with an offense which resulted in the death of a young woman. The pris- oner knows that if his guilt be demonstrated he will be hanged. Now suppose his crime had oceurred in California? Perhaps for reply it will be well to await the verdict in a similar case now on trial here, the position of defendant not being a new one to the accused. But it is safe to predict that the local pris- oner will miss being hanged, and by such a wide mar- gin that he can soon resume business at the old stand. Perhaps the Los Angeles Water Company swells the total of its assets by including a job lot of daily papers. The contract with the city, however, does not bind the taxpayer to purchase any of this sort of truck in buying the corporation plant. l::' th divided HAWAIAN ANNEXATION MAKES STRANGE BEDFELLOWS. THE FIRST BESTOWAL OF THE BRUCE MEDAL. BY ROSE O’HALLORAN. Miss Catherine Wolfe Bruce of New York recently founded the Bruce medal for the recognition of ‘*distinguished services to astronomy,” and the first be- stowal took place on November 27, 1897, at a speclal meeting of the directors of the Astronomical Soclety of the Pacific, which society is the trustee of the endow- ment and award. The temporary si- lence enjoined by the statutes connected therewith as to the person selected for the honor expired when a letter of ac- ceptance arrived on this day from the first recipient, Professor Simon New- comb of Washington, D. C. This emi- nent astronomer, whose recent address at the dedication of the Yerkes Observa- tory excited such general interest, is a native of Nova Scoti educated at the Lawrence Scientific School of Har- vard, and In 181, when in his twenty- sixth year, was appointed professor of mathematics in the United States navy. To his supervision was chiefly intrusted the construction of the 2-inch telescope of the Naval Observatory, at that time the largest refractor yet designed. The organization of the transit of Venus ex- peditions (1874) also devolved on him, and his own observations of that event were conducted at the Cape of Good Hope. But | his most enduring renown has been at- tained by his mathematical contributions to astronomy, some of which appeared as early as 1860, and all of which show a high order of talent, combined with a ca- pacity for assiduous mental labor. In recognition of the value of these services, and especially of his researches as to the orbits of Uranus and Neptune, the gold ficlencles of their times, and it exacted a keen estimate of the full value of their work to discern when to concur, when to correct or when to deviate into new lines. Not only the American Nautical Alma- nac, of which he was superintendent from 1877 the world have been benefited by these investigations; an. a +thousand years hence many of the tables will still be available without the corrections that time eventually exacts. Though now in his sixty-third year, .e is still engaged on the problem of planetary perturba- tions, and, no doubt, science will be soon indebted to his researches for more ac- curate knowledge of the orbits of the | inner planets. Few intellects, even when effort was equally fostered by circumstances, have laborer more efficiently to satisfy the pre: & needs of science. It seems, then, very fitting that the name of Newcomb should be inscribed on the first impress of the Bruce medal for distinguished services to astronomy. The selection is not solely due to the judgment of the di- rectors of the Astronomical Soclety, as the statutes for bestowal require that the six following observatories be each re-| quested to name not more than three per- sons worthy of the honor: Harvard Col- lege Observatory, Lick Observatory, Yerkes Observatory, Observatory = of Paris, Observatory of Greenwich, Ob- servatory of Berlin. Some weeks are al- lowed to intervene between the arrival of these lists of names and the selection from among them of a medalist by the concurrent votes of at least six directors, THiS MEDAL Foun| A D mBCECVY BY CATHERING WoLPS 1S PRESENTED To SiMon NEwcoMB FoR DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR SIMON NEWCOMB, medal of the Royal Astronomical So- clety of England was conferred on him in 1874. The planets Uranus and Neptune, which mutually disturb each other's el- liptic motion, being in a comparative sense of recent discovery, observations had not extended over a sufficiently long period to allow extreme accuracy as to their theoretic orbits, while the accumu- lating errors became intolerable from an astronomical standpoint a&s the years went by. Only those versed in the calcu- lation of planetary orbits can appreciate the amount of work done by the naval professor and his assistants In this in- vestigation, which required a compari- son of the observations of the principal observatories and years of computation before the corrected tables of motion were completed. Among other subjects of his mathematical researches, before and since, the following may be espec- ially named: The orbits of the Asteroids, the distance of the sun, perturbations of the moon's orbit by the planets, tables of eclipses from B.C. 700 to A.D.2300, a com- parison of Hansen's and Delannay’s lunar theories, positions of fundamental stars, transits of Mercury from 1677 to 1881, development of the perturbative function and fits derivatives, periodic perturba- tions of the four inner planets, and the value of the constants of precession, nutation and aberration. A mere enu- meration conveys no idea of the labor in- volved in the preparation of these works. In nearly every case it was rebuilding on a more enlightened plan what had been attempted by gifted men in the past, who were hampered by the de- Neither nationality nor sex acts as a de- barment from the award, but no indi- vidual can receive it more than once, nor can it be conferred oftener than once a year. The medal will be of gold, and inscribed as in the illustration, the reverse bearing the seal of the Astronomical So- ciety of the Pacific. The cost is to be defrayed from the Interest of a fund of $200, which is but one of many gifts to science from the same noble benefactress, who, we are proud to say, is a life member of the society mentioned. To her the Lick Ob- servatory is indebted for large sums for | the purchase of a comet-seeker and two photometers, for the employment of a computer for the reduction of the ob- servations of Professor Schaberle when at Ann Arbor, and also to aid the instal- lation of the Crossley reflector. But her Jjudicious liberality is free from narrow- Ing partialities, and the Observatory of Prague, Austria, has been aided with | $1000 for the publication of a valuable | atlas of the moon. The Yerkes Observa- tory was equipped with a $7000 photograph- ic lens just suited to the work in ‘which Professor Barnard is engaged: the reno- vation of the Dudley Observatory, Al- bany, N. Y., was encouraged by a gift of $25,000, and the Harvard researchesfiln South American skies are now facilitated with a 24-inch photographic telescope at a cost of $50,000. Such well-directed muni- ficence cannot fail to make the ‘world wiser and better in the also enables the future attained even with a life’s labor. e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. SNOWSTORM—A. R., City. The last time that San Francisco was visited by a snowstorm was March 2.3, 15%. REY SANTA ANITA—A. 8, South San Francisco. Rey Santa Anita did not run in a race for three years nrior to De- ccmber 7 of last yea FREDERICKS, THE MURDERER— D., City. Fredericks, who murdered a bank cashier in a bank on Market street, San Francisco, March 23, 18M, was hanged for that crime July 26, 1865. YUCATAN—J. R., City. There are a number of books on Yucatan to be found in the Free Public Library of San Fran- cisco. If you desire to consult them only, you can do so in the reference room of the library. ELECTORAL VOTES—C. C. 8., City. In asking the question “How many elec- toral votes has Greater New York?" you lay a lack of knowledge of American 35:': e Clties’ db not. Tawe cleatomal Votes; such belong to States. DEVISADERO STREET-D., City. De- visadero {8 Spanish, and means railway switch, sidetrack, shunting, raifroad assing, ing place, divid line. B e i o named because it was the street near- e charter line which in early days the city from the outside lands. ClMECTED IN THE CORRIDORS A. S. Ross, a large rancher of Sonoma, is at the Lick. Sheriff E. C. Johnson of Riverside is a guest at the Grand. 8. N. Lockland, a large rancher of Moss Landing, is at the Grand. W. H. Stoy, a capitalist of Marysville, 1s a guest at the Occldental. F. A. Rice, a prominent business man of El Rio, is staying at the Occidental. Joseph R. Ryland, the San Jose capital- ist, is at the Occidental with his wife. Dr. J. W. Robinson, a prominent phy- sician of Jacksonville, is at the Palace. F. C. Lusk, one of the shining lights of the Chico bar, is registered at the Palace. Timothy Hopkins, the multi-millionaire, is staying at the Palace with Mrs. Hop- kins. Frank C. Roberts, a prominent mining man of Miles City, Mont., is at the Cali- fornia. 8. V. McClatchy, one of the proprietors of the Sacramento Bee, Is at the Cali- fornia. O. E. Hunt, U. 8. A, has come down from Vancouver Barracks, where he has to 1897, but all the ephemerides of | resent bv.'iaylé and ewcombs, Barn- ards and Pickerings to begin their w(:!l?k on a plane that otherwise could not be been stationed for some’ time, and has taken rooms at the Occidental with his wife. John A. McEntyre, a mining man of Sacramento, wiil be at the Grand for the next few days. Colonel D. B. Fairbanks, commanding % the Fifth Regiment, N. G. C., Is a guest | at the California. 3 John A. Sanborn, the prominent attor- ney, is over from Oakland. He is staying at the Occidental. 2 A. Barker, one of the leading business men of San Jose, is a guest at the Bald- win with his wife. Nat Cooper, one of the big men of Ba- ker City, Or, is registered at the Bald- win with his family. D. Wocdward, a well known and popu- lar citizen of Portland, is at the Occi- dental with his wife. J. R. Reed, a land owner after whom the town of Reedly is named, is staying at the Grand for a short time. J. C. Lewis, George A. Steel and Jo- seph Simon, three leading business men of Portland, Or., are registered at the Palace. L. T. Waight, superintendent of large mining properties at Keswick, has resg- istered at the Palace for a short stay in the city. Mrs. Pullman and party started East on Wednesday evening in their private car, which was attached to the § o’clock overland. Dr. Thomas Ross, the widely known Sacramento physician, 1s one of the city’s visitors during Jubilee week. He is staying at the Grand. Judge George B. Graham, a prominent jurist of Fresno, has come down to the city to witness the Jubilee festivities and has registered at the Grand. C. S. Drummond of London and F. L Duncan of Nelson, B. C., two English gentlemen heavily interested in mining properties, are staying at the Palace. W. F. Wentworth, the reader and im- sonator, of Boston, will give an even- "né at Plymouth Congregational Church, | Post street, near Webster, Friday night, the 25th inst. W. G. Curtis, superintendent of main- | tenance of way, Assistant Superintendent | J. H. Wallace, H. J. Small, superintend- ent of motive power, and all the engin- | eers and superintendents of the Salt Lake, Sacramento, San Joaquin and Tucson di- visions of the Southern Pacific are mak- ing their annual tour of inspection over the line from Fresno to El Paso. All sta- tions, bridges and structures of every de- | scription will be thoroughly overhauled. eeccesecccccee A well - known 11 K mining man from {! THE CLERK } Northern Califor- nia came into the | WAS office of the Pal- | SURPRISED aceyesterday car- I rying in onehand B a small satchel, | which he laid on the desk of the hotel | with evident difficulty. | “What have you got there that's -so | heavy?”sald Mr. O'Brien from behind the register as he handed the visitor a pen | with his accustomed grace. | “I'l show you,” responded the gentle- | man; and opening the pag he brought to | light a large-sized gold brick and watched | for the look of surprised admiration he | expected to see on the clerk’s face. But | O'Brien has seen tco many gold bricks of | various kinds during his hotel experience, | Bo with the remark that all the suckers | were not yet dead, he proceeded to assign a room to his guest. “I'm no sucker,” said the man with the brick. “This is merely a piece of lead heavily gilded over, which I have had made especlally for my stage line up country. “You see, we are troubled con- siderably with road agents and some of the boys have suffered considerably from their depredations. Each of my drivers is supplied with one of these bogus bricks, which they hand out when they are held up and the treasure they are carrying is demanded. The highwayman {nvariably bites and when he finds out how badly he has been fooled he is so ashamed of himself that he never comes in town and complains.” When the mining man concluded he looked up, and this time he was not dis- appointed. The clerk looked surprised. —_———— CALIFORNIANS AT WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Mrs. Dr. L. D. Pelton of Oakland, Cal., is visiting her nephew, Dr. F. C. Kenyon, at 1339 Wal- lace place, Northwest. Samuel Foster of San Francisco. is at the Arlington; D. A. Bender of San Francisco is at the National Hotel. Charles D. Lane and wife will leave ‘Washington to-morrow. Mrs. Lane goes home and Mr. Lane to Mexico. Among the President’s callers to-day was G. Melville Boynton of San Fran- cisco. Cal.glace fruit 50c perlb at Townsend's.* —_—— Great sale genuine Eyeglasses, specs, 15c. 33 4th st.; open Sundays till 2 p. m. * —_——— The Duke of Aosta has been promoted by his uncle, the King of Italy, to the rank of general, and has been given command of the division of artillery of the military district which has its head- | quarters at Turin. Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by tha Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery st. Tel. Main 1042. Y —_——— Although the venerable Lord Arm- strong (now 87 years of age) is chiefly known for his improvements in cannon and for his connection with one of the | largest manufacturing establishments in the world, he has given some attention to electricity.. What is probably the most sumptuously printed work on that science, “Electric Movement on Air and ‘Water, with Theoretical Inferences,” has Just made its appearance in London, and is from his pen. “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup ” Has been used over fifty years by millions of mothers: for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, reg- ulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. c a bottle. —_——————— CORONADO.—Atmosphere is perfectly dry, eoft and mild, being entirely free from the mists common further north. Round trip tickets, by steamship, including fifteen days’ board at the Hotel del Coronado, $65: longer stay, $2 50 per day. Apply 4 New Montgomery | street, San Francisco, or A. W. Bailey, mana- ger, Hotel del’ Coronado, late of Hotel Colo- rado, Glenwood Springs, Colorado. —_—— Frederick Mistral, the great Provencal poet, is about to present to his well-be- loved country of Provence a museum, which is Intended to illustrate the his- tory, manners and customs of Provence and Languedoc. This museum 1s at Arles, and is located in an old convent in the Place St. Strophime. The open- ing ceremony will take place next spring when the Felibridge and Cigaliers will foregather in their thousands. NEW TO-DAY. Royal is thegreatest of baking powders | | in strength, purity and healthfulness.