The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 27, 1898, Page 6

v THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1898. THURSDAY.. JANUARY 27, 1898 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All PUBLICATION OFFICE........Market and Third Sts., S. F. | Telephcne Main 1868, EDITORIAL ROOMS.... .2I7 to 221 Stevenson strze Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FR/\NCISCd 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 €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. OAKLAND OFFICE Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YO};?K OFFICE. Room 188, World Building ‘WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE .... . Riggs House €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street. eorner Clay: open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open untll | 9:30 o'clock. 621 MoAllister street; open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock | SW. corner Sixteenth and Misslon streets: open untll | ¢ o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock | 106 Eleventh st.: open untll9 o'clock, 1505 Polk street | cpen until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second | and Kentucky streets: open until 9 o'clock. Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. | One vear, by mall, $1.50 ..908 Broadway AMUSEMENTS. The Girl From Paris.” Courted Into Court.” The Arabtan Nights. [ Brother for Brother.” ! 1an Boru. cert this afternoon. | the position it may take will strike the pocket. —Vauderville. alta German-Hebrew Opera Co., Saturday evening. | Iympla, cor. Mason and Eddy streets.—Kirchner's Ladies' | uita and Vaudeville. | fcs’ Pavilion—Mining Eair and Klondike Exposition, | le Skating Rink—Optical Illusions. ast Jockey Club, Ingleside Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. H. Umbsen, Monday. January 31, Real Estate, at 14 street, at 12 0'clock. ECONOMY IN NEVADA. HETHER regarded as an industry, a pastime | \)\/ or a method of practicing law, lynching in Nevada is to continue for some time longer unhampered by legal interference and unfretted by | This is the only conclusion de- ducible from the refusal of the Douglass Grand Jury | to indict the Iynchers in the Uber case at Carson, for it seems there was no lack of evidence against the | lynchers, but 2 most plentiful lack of desire to prose- | cute them. ‘1 public criticism. It is most fortunate in every respect that along | with the news of the refusal of the Grand Jury to in-“ dict there came an explanation of the cause of the | refusal. Had nothing been made public but the bare report of the action of the jury, Eastern opinion | would have at once declared the case to be another | evidence of the wild and woolly lawlessness of thef West; while in the West itself there would have been ; so many suggestions of “stuff” and “dough” and | “Colonel Mazuma” that the uninitiated would have supposed the colonel keeps a bakery at Carson and | the Grand Jury had taken his cake. The explanation which so opportunely came along with the news saves the West and the people of Ne- vada from all injurious suspicions either on this coast or beyond the Rockies. It makes known the fact that the lynchers were permitted to go free | simply to save expense. It would have cost the county a good deal of money to have prosecuted the guilty parties, and bonanza days being over in the sagebrush State there is no longer any money to | burn either in court or out of it. On that score the | lynchers were released by the thrifty members of tl\c} Grand Jury, doubtless in the hope that having been | thus given rope enough they would eventually hang | themselves or one another without expense to the county. Thrift is the mother of all virtues. It is pleasing to observe the cultivation of it among the people of | Nevada, where it has long been neglected. “tht they have well learned how to save money they may proceed to higher lessons of economy and learn how to save lives and protect person as well as property. Then they will know that thrift walks hand in hand | with law, and that money expended in the perform- ance of justice is neither wasted nor lost. In the meantime it is gratifying that the case when fully examined makes a much better showing for the people of Nevada than appears on the surface. An effort, really in earnest on the part of the officers of | the law, was made to bring the lynchers to justice. The Prosecuting Attorney did his work with zeal and | seems to have submitted to the jury abundant evi- dence to prove the case of the State against the ac- cused. A considerable number of the Grand Jury also were ready and willing to act. Justice failed | simply because a number of thrifty citizens whose de- votion to economy would have made them excellent | Supervisors were by a freak of fortune turned from that office and landed in the Grand Jury. The practical joker who plays ghost and scares people crazy has been at his work again. It is too bad that something cannot be done with this fellow. To be sure, some relative of the victim might knock the head of the jocose idiot, and yet there is little likelihood that any will be so thoughtful. The statute can deal with crime fairly well; it provides for the lunatic, but as to the fool it is still weak. If Bennett was really insane when he stabbed his wife seventeen times and cut his own throat, his re- | covery just in time to escape to Victoria and fight against being brought back was an instance of rapid cure. It ought to impress any jury, the nature of the impression depending, of course, upon the intelli- gence of the jury. —_— Frank Burnstein, who lived near Santa Cruz, studied theosophy, and from some process not clear to the worldly mind absorbed the idea that he could live without food. It is painful to relate that Burn- stein was in error. His astral body may be all right, but the body he left behind was a bag of bones. Perhaps the United States army is a little weak numerically, but there is nothing more impressive known to modern military science than the new uni- form of General Miles. o There has been some concern because of the float- ing of counterfeit $100 notes, and yet the people who have escaped annoyance do not seem particularly glad of it. T R Several Governors are in favor of annexation, and several gentlemen who have hopes of going into the same line of business are known to share this feeling. CoEhgres People who are fond of remarking upon coinci- dences can find one, of no possible consequence, in | find one by getting an interview with Kaiser Wil- the fact that Durrant and Figel were once class- mates POLLING AS AN @RT. HERE is a brand of journalism which is afraid ; Tlo express an opinion until it has carefully E weighed the result in coin. One symptom ofi it is the habit of polling. It does not care for the | right or wrong of any matter, but it does care how | Its brains are in its pocket, and had it a conscience this would be there too. The latest instance of this locally is in connection with the fight of Los Angeles to free itself from the | grip of the water company. The papers of that city had been reduced to a state of submission. Three of them did the bidding of the company, nor asked | any question unless perhaps as to the feasibility of | advancing the price of editorial support. It was ne- | cessary that some paper not subject to local influence | should take up the fight of the people. This The Call | did freely, not stopping to inquire what the conse- | quence would be to itself. Meanwhile yeflow jour- nalism held in abeyance such influence as it might possess and began to feel its way. “poll.” | There is only one construction to be placed on this | course when it is considered that the sheet taking it | is the Examiner. It wants to find whether it can | | It resorted to the | | afford to espouse the cause of the people at the risk | of offending the water company, or whether its profit- | able method will be to get on the payroll of the com- | pany and let the people go. On the returns from its | poll will rest the conclusion. There is never a pos- sibility of its doing anything from a conviction that to do it would be right. It is not subject to this va- riety of conviction. A sheet which lacks the courage to speak its little mind about a proposed monkey | ranch until it has taken one of its justly celebrated ! polls cannot be expected to deal with-a subject so wide and far-reaching as the Los Angeles water problem without having first got the consent of every | actual or possible subscriber concerned. It follows, of course, that there is no importance to be attached to the way the yellow toad may hop. It can indorse the water company, and the reason for | | doing so will be so plain that none will be deceived. | It can indorse the people, but the subject has already | been so exploited that even this unfortunate backing | will not weaken the people’s case. : But there is really very little difference what it may do. The controversy will be settled without its aid. The point at issue is this mania for polling. Yellow journalists will soon be afraid to announce a flood without taking a poll of the citizens washed out. In- deed, the polling habit is only less virulent than the affidavit habit, which impels the liar to swear to his lies, but no less fervently to his accidental truths. | D journalists trying to get up a war scare over the dispatch of the Maine to Havana, it is notable that the business interests of the country are not in the least concerned, and even Wall street, so | prone to excitement over every passing cloud, has not | had a flurry in any of its numerous pits and pools. | The incident shows in what contempt sensational journalism is held throughout the country in all in- telligent circles, For weeks the yellow papers have been screaming of coming war in type so big that circus posters look mild in comparison. For weeks | they have been publishing interviews with the Gov- ernor of Cuba, the Prime Minister of Spain and a | host of other Spanish dignitaries, all breathing war against the United States, and yet the public goes | right along paying no more attention to the lurid news and the clamors of war than they would to the gibbering of so many idiots shouting at passers from the barred windows of a safe asylum. Incidents of this kind are encouraging. We hear so much of the influence of decadent journalism and of the pernicious effects of the yellow monstrosities | there is at times a feeling of anxiety lest the whole i character of public opinion should be tainted by the | vicious depravities that emanate from such sources. When we note, however, the indifference of the in- | telligent portion of the community to such efforts of | vellow journalism as this war scare, we are freed | from all such fears. Decadent journalism is evi- | dently one of the pestilences that affect only those | who by some taint of blood are predisposed to receive | them. The bugaboo war scare passes as harmlessly over the minds of the great bulk of the American people as some noxious vapor from a sewer passes off from our hills, blown away by the strong, pure breezes of the ocean. The country has confidence in the abil- ity of the administration at Washington to guard‘ every American interest in Cuba and to effectually aid in restoring peace to that unhappy island without engaging in a needless war with Spain. Yellow journalism must turn to some other source for an international sensation. Probably it might A BUGABOO WAR SCARE. ; ESPITE the shudders and shrieks of yellow liam. One of our pictorial magazines is now running a vivid story of a German invasion of the United States, and it would take but little exercise of yellow enterprise to transform magazine fiction into a news- paper realism that would serve, for a day at least, to stir the pulses of the slums. If anybody would rather die by faith than recover | by medicine the matter might be regarded as a per- | sonal and private one, except that babies are some- times required to die by faith while yet too young to appreciate its beauties, Besides this, some maladies | have the disadvantage of being catching, and germs! from them are likely to float to localities where the | people are not educated up to the point of curing themselves by indulging in thought of a refined va- riety. The revolting bestiality of the Clarks, now under | arrest or surveillance at Napa, has never been ex- | ceeded so far as criminal annals show. Neither the man nor woman is fit to live. The public has a right to hope that exploitation of their foulness will be brief | and barren of further particulars. While President Dole is speculating as to the fu- | ture of Hawaii, and fearful lest the islands fall prey to some greedy power, there is one possibility of which he fails to make mention. What if the rightful owners were to take a notion to rule themselves? Natives of India have been scared into fasting by the sight of an eclipse. Fasting is almost a habit with them, but they usually have a better reason for indulging in it, this being the absence of anything edible. The policeman anxious to make a record ought to arrest a few of the peculiar people who leave horses untied. The arrest of the horse is usually accom- plished after the damage has been done. According to official records there is an abundance of room in the local jails, and with so many thieves and thugs running loose it seems a pity that this I space should be going to waste. W | body is diseniranchised in Hawaii,” they have insisted. | paid and the | @ desperate game. There are several gold Democrats | debase our currency or impair the credit of our | DAMON’S ADMISSION. E have striven successfully to impress the American public with a correct idea of the | Hawaiian oligarchy, which is proposing to[ sell that country to the United States for s.;,ooo,cm} to pay Dole’s debts and about $8,000,000 a year pro- | tection bounty on raw’sugar. It has suited the an- | nexationists in this country to deny these facts. “No- Senator Morgan, when confronted with our state- | ment of the situation, cut across the question by ap- proving the suppression of the native vote. \Vhile‘ in Hawaii at the expense of the oligarchy, which | omitted no hospitality, he told the natives that afte: | annexation they would be treated just like our Southern negroes! After all this mixture of admis- sion and denial of our statements, the truth is at last | confessed by a member of the Dole Cabinet. The Chief Oligarch is away and the dissensions among the smembers of his government are taking shape. “ Finance Minister Damon, in a public speech to the members of the Government, has said: “This question of the voting population being in‘ the minority cannot go on forever. * * * If we are a republic we want to have a common country and a common ground to work upon, and to.say that | a part of this community is to be kept outside the pale seems to me a great mistake.” This is very broad and very valuable. It admits government by the minority, as we have claimed. It questions the existence of a republic at all—“If we | are a republic”—and no colleague of Minister Damon | attempted to lift the imputation and its shadow off the oligarchy. | In the light of this official confession the propos tion of Senator Bacon to submit to a vote of the | whole Hawaiian people the question of annexation gains an irresistible force. Senator Morgan is struggling to divert public at- tention to some indecencies in which he indulges toward Mr. Cleveland. But Americans are not to be diverted in that way. When a territory is to be admitted into this Union the people make and offer to Congress a constitu- tion and they vote upon the question of admission. In one instance Congress so changed a constitution | that the people voted not to enter the Union, refused | admission by a large majority, and there was no power in the Federal Government to override their will. Congress was compelled to concede the point and then the people voted to enter the Union and the State was admitted. Are we to violate all constitutional provisions and repudiate all our governmental precedents just be- cause Dole pays a visit to get his $4,000,000 of debts | planters want $8,000,000 a year out of us? | Are we to let an oligarchy, which even | is not | elected by the minority of voters admitted by Minister ‘ Damon to exist, sell out a country under pretense | that it represents the people and is republican in | form, while Damon cries out, “IF we are a repub- | lic!” S debate on the silver resolutions on with such impassioned zeal that his fury car- | ried him in one instance to a degree of rudeness that shocked even his own sense of courtesy and brought the flow of his raging rhetoric to a sudden stop. In a half apologetic way he said afterward he would have | his offensive expression stricken from the record, whereupon Senator Hoar, with the kindness of a candid friend, advised him to have the whole speech | stricken out. 3 The advice of the calm Senator from Massachusetts to his excited colleague from Colorado was judicious. | As an aspirant for the Presidency and a possible can- didate for that high office, Mr. Teller should keep his head cool and beware of sudden heats. Red- hot speeches do not make campaign documents at- tractive to intelligent voters, and men who cannot discuss coolly and reasonably grave matters of state | are not the kind that are chosen by the American people to preside over the affairs of the Union. There is nothing in the occasion of the present | silver debate to greatly excite any one except a fan- | atic who rages simply because he recognizes the im- potence of his rage. The silver Senators know very well the House will never adopt the resolutions they | have submitted to the Senate and are now so ve- hemently discussing. They know, and they are aware | the country knows, the resolutions were introduced simply to show the currency reformers that no re- | form bill can pass the Senate at this session. The | whole thing is simply in the nature of a bluff, and to | make a successful bluff it is by no means neccssaryi SOUND AND FURY. ENATOR TELLER burst into the Senatorial Tuesday | | to create a volcano. It is barely possible the rage of Senator Teller may | have been due to an excited fear on his part that the bluff will not work. The Senate may after all refuse to | adopt his resolutions. There are not so many silvcr} Republicans as there were a year ago. The party is | getting into line for currency reform, and some of the } Senators whom the silver men confidently counted on | when they boldly introduced their resolutions may be | found on the other side when the vote is taken. If| this be so, we can understand the wrath of the Sen- ator from Colorado. He will have seen himself about to be hoisted by his own petard, and under such cir- cumstances excitement is natural. As a matter of fact, the silver Senators are playing in the Senate who will vote with the Republicans against their resolutions. They can win only by ob- taining the votes of many so-called silver Republi- cans, and, as we have said, these are not so numerous | as they were. By the St. Louis platform the Republican delegates in Congress are pledged to the declaration, “We are | unalterably opposed to every measure calculated to | Government.” Surely not many Republicans in Con- | gress, even though favorable to silver, will violate that | pledge simply to head off a currency reform bill. Tt | is this aspect of the situation that gives interest to the { debate. Senator Teller’s sound and fury may after all | signify something. It may mean that his bluff is | about to shoot from under him like a landslide. | Naturally the champion athlete of Vassar is a Cali- fornian girl. No other State in the Union may hope to compete with this State in the production of femi- nine strength and shapeliness. Miss Abrams of New York may be regarded as a Incky young woman. She has received $10,000 for the injury a dentist did her jaw and still has enough jaw to chew gum. Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald in his act of boom- ing the annexation of coolies is a spectacle for gods and men, but particularly men, and more particularly, working men. When a German paper decides to run a cartoon of the Kaiser it ought to make a good one. No com- monplace cartoon is worth being sent to jail for. | tion of this scene in future. MUSIC New York refused to enthuse over Sy- bil Sanderson when she appeared at the Metropolitan Opera House some years ago, but Marfe Barna, another Califor- nia prima donna, is reaping large crops of laurels with Walter Damrosch’s Opera Company at the Metropolitan Opera House. The season opened last week, and so far has been an unqualified suecess. Marie Barna, who is appearing in heavy Wagnerian roles, {s the daughter of Judge Barnard of San Francisco, and re- celved her early vocal training in this city. Some years ago she went East and made her home in Boston, where she #ang In concert with the Cecilla Society and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Going to Europe she completed her train- ing under Sbriglia and MarcHesi, in Paris, and subsequently she sang with much success in Italy. Her repertoire contains the classic and modern Italian operas, AND MUSICIANS. arrangements, has engaged legal assis- tance, fearing the creditors will take measures against her to secure payment of their bills. A jury in the United States Circuit Court, Judge Wallace presiding, has awarded $1000 damages to James Fitch Thompson, a singer, who sued Max Backert for $15,000 for alleged malicious arrest, owing to which, the plaintiff al- leges, he lost his voice and was unable to fulfill his musical engagements. Thomp- son says he was arrested for debt at the instance of the defendant, in Boston, in December, 1883. He was released under the poor debtor law, but in March, 189, Backert again caused his arrest, in vi lation of a Massachusetts law which pro- hibits a second arrest upon the same ex- ecution for debt. On this second occa- sion, Thompson says, he was taken, from his hotel to jail through all the inclem- | and in the highly dramatic “‘Andrea Che-i ency of a cold snowy winter's day, the MARIE BARNA. WITH THE DAMROSCH-ELLIS OPERA COMPANY. nier” of Guordano and in Puccint’s “La | injury to his voice Boheme"” she has sung recently with much pral The range, purlty, resc nance and emotional quality of her vol fit her especially for the Wagnerian parts which she Is taking In New York. Her debut last week was made as Venus in *“Tannhauser.” The sub-title glven by Richard Wag- ner to his “Tannhauser,”” and which the | | greeted him. piano, played a few bars, and when he | bills of the Natlonal Academy of Music never reproduce, “The Joust of the Singers at the Wartbourg,” has just found a singular justification at the Opera In Vienna, where they were playing “Tannhauser” recently. Since the suppression of the officfal claque sev- eral artists of this theater have possessed a private claque, composed of young en- thustasts, whose manual labor is not paid for. The tenor, Winklemann, and the barytone, Relchmann, two celebrated | Wagnerian singers, possess a very nu- merous and militant claque of this kind, the members of which impose themselves upon the public more than the old official claque, without the director of the opera or the police being able to interfere in any way. Now, one night lately the “claques” of these two artists commenced a battle against each other without as- signing any cause for this raising of shields. In the second act, after the allo- cution of Wolfram d’Eschenbach, very well sung by M. Reichmann, his claque applaunded vociferously for five minutes. M. Winklemann's claque got jealous and began to cry, “Enough! enough!” and the plaudits were interrupted by hisses. M. Reichmann let it be plainly seen that he was furious. Arrived at the third act and the famous song of the “Evening Star” (the “battle horse” of M. Reich- mann) the same scene which preceded was reproduced. M. Reichmann then sald some words to the conductor, which could not be heard, leaned his harp against the trunk of a tree and walked off. The director, M. Mahler, who had taken a vacation and was resting in the Alps, returned after the fetes and had a friendly explanation with M. Reichmann, ‘who still remains at the Imperial Opera. On their side the director and the police are taking measures to prevent a repeti- M. Winkle- mann and M. Reichmann are the pillars of the Wagnerian repertory, and nelther one nor the other can be duplicated in most of his roles. From the Menestrel: These Americans will never cease stupefying uswith their incessant inventions. Here ig one quite recent, Introduced into singing schools, and due to an ‘“eminent” pro- fessor of New York. It is besides very simple and entalls no other expense than the purchase of an umbreila. What to do with, you will ask, for what pur- pose this engine dear to Robinson Crusoe in a singing class? See. The professor places himself, armed with the instru- ment In question, in an angle of the hall, and all his pupils correctly ranged before him, commence to utter a sound in fol- lowing with attention all his movements. Little by little, slowly the umbrella opens and by the measure which he employs, the sound of the voice ought to augment, to attaln its full plenitude when the ob- ject is entirely open. Afterward the contrary ought to take place: always slowly, poco a poco, the umbrelia shuts and the voices follow its evolution, di- minuendo, decrescendo, to arrive at pla- nissimo the most perfect and to be ex- tinguished finally in a whisper when the umbrella is completely folded. Is it not marvelous, and can one comprehend why nelther Garcia nor Ponchard ever had the idea to adopt a proceeding so practical and so simple? The great “Cinderella” performances, which took place last week at the Met- ropolitan Opera House, for the benefit of three Roman Catholic charities, were & complete failure, so far as the financial reSults were concerned. All the follow- ing day the stage door was besieged by applicants for money. A small percent- age was forthcoming with promises of more. Mr. Lummis, the representative of the institutions to be benefited, said that there was more money coming in and the accounts were not yet audited, but that he thought all claims would be satisfied. Mrs, Barnes, who had nothing to do with the business part of the un- dertaking but superintended all the stage resulting. Backert pleaded ignorance of the law. The Musical Courier publishes the fol- lowing letter: Editors Musical Courier: How 1s this for musical Boston? At the Henschel concert yesterday, just before Mr. Henschel came on the stage, a lady crossed over the center aisle and began talking to a friend. There she remained, still talking, during the applause which He seated himself at the found that she still continued talking he stepped to the front of the stage and re- quested her to be seated. Yours sin- cerely, One who was there, January 9. Some thoughts and aphorisms of Anton Rubinstein: For the public, life is the most serious thing and art is an amuse- ment; for the artist it is the contrar: art Is everything and life is only a dis- traction. Life is an enigma and death is the key to it People talk of the fear of God; it is the fear of man that one ought to have, for God is merciful, while men do not par- don. I am an adversary to capital punish- ment; for in inflicting the penalty of death soclety places itself on the same plane with the assassin; he has killed, one kills him. The assassin should be rendered inoffensive by being imprisoned for life; I would suspend in his cell the portrait of his victim and have a weapon placed beside it. Perhaps remorse would suggest to the assassin the idea of sui- cide, the only logical solution to the crime, it appears to me. Six thousand people attended the Audi- torium, Chicago, on the 18th of January for the biggest musical and social event of the season. Nordica, Ysaye and Plan- con were the soloists, with the Thomas orchestra. Al were rapturously ap- plauded. Every box was occupied at $150 each. Carlo Torriani, the well-known musical director, a native of New York, died of consumption last week at his residence, 204 West Thirty-fourth Street, after a lingering illness. Signor Nicolinf, husband of Mme. Ade- lina Patti, died at Pau, France, Janu- ary 19. COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS George W. Chandler, a capitalist of Santa Cruz, is at the Grand. Fred Doal, the Fresno hotel man, is at the Baldwin for a few days. A. F. Saul, a mining man ot Bisbee, Ariz., Is staying at the California. J. M. Whitney, a wealthy miner of So- nora, has taken rooms at the Lick. Dr. W. 8. George, one of Antloch's leading physicians, is at the Grand. John C. Downing, a prominent politi- clan of Tacoma, is at the Occidental. P. A. Dronboy, a prominent resident of Toole, Manitoba, is at the Occidental. R. A. Smith, a mining man from the City of Mexico, is a guest at the Lick. Dr. H. A. Mesmeyer, a physiclan of Marysville, Is stopping at the Palace. J. F. Carolan and wife have come up from Burlingame and are at the Palace. L. O. Bell, a manufacturer of New York State, is to be found at the Palace. ‘W. H. Hatton, the well-known Modesto lawyer and politician, is a guest at the Lick. G. M. M. Ross, an extensive land-owner of Petaluma, is registered at the Occi- dental. P. J. Murry, one of Sacramento’s most progressive merchants, is at the Cali- fornia. E. D. Casterline, a well-known business man of Los Angeles, is a guest at the Baldwin. D. A. Jones, who is a power In New York commercial circles, is registered at the Palace. J. B, O. Kee and J. M. Wilson, two rich mining men of Wyoming, are together at the Manager F. M. Gray of the People's Telephone Company of SBan Jose salled yesterday for Honolulu on business rel- ative to the new telephone plant being installed there. - M. H. Allen, cne of the best-known resi- dents of Washington, D. C., is staying at the Palace. H. A. Sturgis, a millionaire of St. Louis, | is at the California on’ a visit of pleasure ‘ to the coast. James Mainwaring, a well-known and | popular club man of Brooklyn, N. Y., is | at the Occidental. | - D. Horn, the popular boniface of the | Hornbrook Hotel in 8iskiyou County, is a guest at the Grand. W. W. Seaman, Assistant Superintend- ent of Public Instruction, is registered at the Lick from Sacramento. W. S. McGill, a large rancher of Wat- sonville, is one of the guests who arrived at the Occidental yesterday. A. W. Smith, one of the bright lights of | the Chicago bar, is to be seen in the cor- | ridors of the Palace these days. I. K. Hamilton, a Chicago millionaire, is at the Occidental on a visit to the coast. Mrs. Hamilton accompanies him. J. B. Kirkland, an active and well- liked railroad man of Portland, is stay- ing at the Occidental on a short visit to the city. W. A. McNight, a railroad man of | Santa Maria, is visiting the city on busi- | ness connected with his profession. He is at the Grand. E. E. Rittenhauser, who has been stay- ing at the Occidental for some time past, sailed for Korea yesterday on the Peru. He goes to take charge of the locomo- tives that are being used on the new rail- road being built in that country. ‘William Carson, the millionaire red. wood manufacturer of Eureka, Humboldt County, is in town. His son Sumner will start for Da: n City on the first of tha month. He will have the best-equipped outfit of any young man yet leaving for the Alaskan gold fields. Count Cini, the friend and companion of Prince Louis of Savoy and who accom- panied that gentleman on his celebrated mountain climbing trip, arrived at the Palace last evening from Colorado. The Count {is largely interested in Colorado | mining properties, and makes periodical visits to that State to look after his in- terests there. His presence in this city is merely a desire to renew the pleasant acquaintances made by him on his last visit. *seesesesseseee Colonel Chad- ¢ bourne, Harbor COULD NOT C o m missioner, STUMP was wa.lk.llnz along the city THE COLONEL. $ front 1ast sun- day observing the efforts that the embryo forest his artistic genius has started on East street was making to survive the clouds of coal dust and splinters that form its principal nourish- ment, when he was approached by Billy | Foote and a party of prominent politi- clans, who were also taking a stroll about | the docks and endeavoring to find in the | salt air a panacea for the headaches re- | sultant of the hard work of the previous Saturday night and the worry and trou- ble incident to the reception of distin- guished jubilee visitors. *“Colonel,” said Foote, “I am told that vou are pretty well up on everything re- lating to trees; in fact, those who ought to know say that your information on that subject is hardly less than pheno- menal, and embraces in its range every- thing from a juniper bush to a redwood. |Is that right?” “Well, to tell the | truth, I do know something in that line,” | replied the modest colonel. “Then,” said Foote, “you are just the man we are | looking for. English here and myself havehad adispute onthe kindof tree that that ancient sightseer climbed to.witness | the entrance of the Lord into Jerusalem. | Neither of us was certain, and, seeing vou, I bet him the drinks that you could tell us, as there was nothing you did not know in matters of that kind." ou | were right,” answered Chadbourne. “It | was a high tree. Where shall we go for | the drink: CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. | WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—J. Hutchin- son of San Francisco is at the Raleigh; C. M. Barnes of Oakland is at the Nor- mandie; Judge Curtis H. Lindley of San Francisco is at the Shorcham. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—Martin Berwin of San Francisco is at the Hoffman House, and J. S. Webster of San Franecisco is at the Hotel Manhattan. THE COMBINE IS SQUIRMING. The San Francisco Call has touched an electric button in Los Angeles, and there is great squirming in that city. Perhaps The Call has exposed a fewtruths.—Santa Monica Outlool AND THE WAR ISN'T OVER. The San Francisco Call has stirred the animals up in Los Angeles in great shape. A two-page article Monday exposing the ‘“internal apparatus” of the water com- pany is a corker. The war isn't over yet. —Pasadena New: ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENTS. AN OLD PAPER—A. S, City. As you failed to give the name and date of the old paper you have in your possession, it is impossible to state if it has any value. HOME TREASURY—Many Subscrib- | ers. The address of the Home Treasury, | the advertisement of which appeared in the Golden Era Edition of the San Fran- cisco Call, is Augusta, Me. THE CENTURY—B. P., City. The ques- tionabout the beginning and ending of the century has been answered several times in this department. The present century will end at midnight, December 31, 1900. GOVERNMENT POSITIONS—F. K., City. A person desiring to obtain a Government position in the United States mint, Custom Iouse, postoffice or other departments named in the civil service act, except that of chief clerk or cashier or laborer, must undergo civil service ex- amination, blanks for which may be ob- tained at the head office of any of the departments. Guillet’s potato, filbert cake. —_—e—————. Cal.glace fruit 50c perib at Townsend's.® et Special information supplied dally to 905 Larkin, iness houses and public men by the Prete Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Moy gomery st. Tel. Main 1042. . —_—— A Dixfield (Me.) firm has just com- pleted an order for 8,000,000 checkers and 200,000 dice boxes. —_———— ANGOSTURA BITTERS—Prepared by DR. Sra- ERT for his private use, have become famous as the best appetizing tonie. Accept no other. —_—— BRONCHITIS. Sudden changes of the weather cause Bronchial Troubles. “Brown’s Bronchial Troches” will give effective relief. —————— It is sald that the patterns on the finger-tips are not only unc) angeable through life, but the chancd of the finger-tips of two persons being alike is less than one chance in 64,000,000,000. E e NEW TO-DAY. The Certain Protection of our bread, biscuit and cake from alum is in the use of RovAL BAKING POWDER only.