The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 29, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1898. SATURDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. “iddress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION Third Sts., S. F. "OFFICE Market and Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..... ... 217 to 921 Stevenson stree 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 ... One year. by mall, $1.50 908 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE.... Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE ... ... Riggs House C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery strest. eorner Clav: | open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street: open until | ©:30 o'clock. 621 MoAllister street: open until 9:30 | c'clock. 615 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets: open untll | < o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock 106 Eleventh st: open until9 o'clock, 1505 Polk street cpen until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second cnd Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. | Baldwin—* The Girl From Pari Bush—Thalia Germas g Olympia, cor. Mason and Eddy streets.—Kirchner's Ladles' Orchestra. | The Chutes—Chiguita and Vaudeviile. Mechanics' Pavilion—Mining Eair and Klondike Exposition Lybeck Cycle Skating Rink—Optical Iliusions. Pacific Coast Jockey Club, Ingleside Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. . Japuary 81, Real Estate, at 14 street, at 12 0'clock. FIXING THE BLAME HERE is an extremely delicate point of law in Tthe case of a man who was knocked down by | another and died almost at the instant of the impact of his head with the floor. A question has | naturally arisen as to whether death was due to the blow or the shock which, most unhappily, succeeded | the blow. It may even be alleged, such are the nice- ties of the law, that there is nothing to show any | connection between the original thump and the tumble. Possibly had the forceful fist never been shot out the person who received it, marked by an | inscrutable providence to have his head cracked, | would have slipped on a banana peel at the instant | or keeled over in a fit or been hit by a piece of| plaster or had a house fall on him. It is hard to fool the decrees of fate. | Again, when a man strikes another where does the \ responsibility end? It might be contended with rea- | son as strong as some which have proved effective that it ends with the delivery of the blow. If the | recipient happen to be sent wrong end up through | space that seems to be his lookout, and if he is care- | less enough to come down certainly he must expect | the penalty. However, the problem is to be settled in the Colorado courts, and save as a matter of gen- | eral interest there is no necessity for bothering | with it here. Still, it is pleasing to know there is no | intention of indicting the deceased gentleman for | suicide. { DEMOCRATIC SECRETS REVEALED O ator White has been the unloosing of the tongue of | “Buck” Hinrichsen, a candidate for the position, who | regards his defeat as treason to himself and a be- | trayal of promises. Talking in wrath and denouncing his foes, Mr. Hinrichsen is reported to have revealed | some political secrets of interest to the public at | large, and particularly so to the Democratic party. | The story of woe begins at a period preceding the | Chicago convention of 18¢6. Mr. Hinrichsen, it ap- | pears, was at that time working in combination with | a junta of silver Senators to commit the Democratic | party to the cause of free silver, and believed him- self to be one of the inside counselors of the move- ment. Shortly before the Chicago convention met he learned that the Senatorial junta had arranged to defeat every Democrat in sight and nominate Sen- ator Teller. At this discovery Hinrichsen and Alt- geld broke away from the combine and tried to de- feat the scheme of the junta by putting Bland of Mis- souri forward as a candidate. The break in the original combination on the very eve of the convention threw everything into confu- sion. The silver leaders were able to draw up the platform and drive the gold men out of the party, but were not able to nominate Teller against the op- position of Altgeld and Hinrichsen. The situation was favorable to a bold and skillful orator, and Bryan was quick to perceive it. He made the famous speech that carried the convention off its feet and won the nomination for himself, leaving both wings of the conspiring combination baffled, balked and beaten. That much is ancient history. Its relation to the- present situation is due to a statement attributed to Hinrichsen that the Senatorial junta defeated in 1806 is once more actively at work. He sees in his defeat for the chairmanship of the Congressional Commit- tee conclusive evidence that the combine is running the Democratic party and laying wires for the con- trol of the national convention of 1900. If this conclusion be correct, Mr. Bryan as well as Mr. Hinrichsen may be interested in the matter. It will not be possible for the silver-tongued orator to repeat at the next Democratic convention the lucky stroke of 1806. He has talked too much since that time to accomplish the success of a surprise party again, and if the declarations of the Hinrichsen indignation meeting of one have any foundation in fact the young man from the Platte had better make himself solid with the Senatorial combine at once or spend the next two years in steady practice at sawing wood and saying nothing. NE of the results of the struggle over the chair- | manship of the Democratic Congressional‘; Committee which ended in the election of Sen- | Since it has been determined that men cannot be arrested for fighting in a Federal building except through action of the Federal courts, the future for the pugilist looks bright. If he will only sneak with his seconds into the national Capitol he will find scveral large apartments adapted to his purposes, and the sedate, not to say busy, officers are not likely to stop important business to worry over a prize- fight. Also, perhaps they would enjoy the fight. It is greatly to be feared that Mr. Bennett will not hereafter entertain for the courts that respect which is the safeguard of order. They found him guilty of assault with a deadly weapon, and Bennett, as a man who cut his wife's throat, knows that anything short of hanging him would be less than justice. | larity ! in our judgment, be a terrible mistake. B WISDOM FOR THE UNWASHED. T its meeting to-day the Democratic State fl Central Committee will be compelled to face an important political crisis. Fifty-three of its members declined last summer to pay $30 each for the prosecution of the campaign for Bryan and free silver. Under the rules of the committee they may all be expelled for the offense. If at its meet- ing to-day those who did pay the assessment con- clude to dismiss the delinquents the committee, in- stead of consisting of 128 members, will consist of seventy-fivea In other words, it will represent but little more than half the Democracy of the State. An inspection of the names of those who declined to aid the cause of Bryan and free silver by contri- buting $30 in gold to the Democratic-Populist cam- paign of last year makes it plain that the different delinquents had different reasons for their recalci- trancy. It is evident that some of them did not have $30. These members may have intended to pay up after the advent of free coinage, which its advocates believe will usher in flush times and plenty of money. Others probably disapproved of the fusion with the Populists; there are many Democrats in California who thought and still think that the fu- sion was an alliance with the devil. Others still may have considered $30 altogether too steep a price to pay for Bryan and free silver. Our own opinion is that that combination would have been dear at any price. But the point at which we are aiming ought to be' plain to all Democrats. The fifty-three members of the State Central Committee whom it is proposed to discipline to-day are evidently mostly men of prin- ciple. At all events they were not slaves to “regu- and for that reason they are, under prevailing conditions, valuable Democrats. To dismiss them as is proposed by the slaves of “regularity” would, The mem- bers of the committee may think we are joking with them. Probably it is presumptuous on the part of 4 Republican paper to express opinions regarding troubles among the unterrified. But, nevertheless, | we do not hesitate to inform the seventy-five Spar- | tans of the Democratic State Committee who are now contemplating tumbling their fifty-three delin- quent colleagues into the political soup that, in our opinion, to do so will result in much party trouble. Regular Democrats as well as regular Re-| publicans must be aware of the fact that party labels no longer hold men together in California. Everywhere primaries and con- ventions, caucuses and committees are prov- ing ineffective for producing political results. In- dependent voting is now the order of the day. The people no longer ask whether a candidate is a Dem- ocrat or a Republican. They want to know how he | measures up as a Man. They vote in these days for" men and issues, not according to party labels. It will be a mistake for the Democratic Statg Central Com- mittee to dismiss fifty-three of its members because they refused to contribute toward a campaign in which they took no part, because that action will make exactly fifty-three soreheads who will not hesi- tate to wreak their vengeance upon the loppling; Democracy. The unterrified may regard it as strange that The Call should offer this advice. There is, however, nothing strange about it. In the next campaign we intend to support the Republican ticket. Naturally we desire an opposition worthy of our mettle. If the Democrats split their State Committee there will be nothing to fight. Heaven knows the Democracy will be weak enough this year even if united. THE FEDERAL BUILDING. UPERINTENDENT ROBERTS has denied the reports from Washington of the discovery of quicksand on the site of the new Federal building and gives assurances that no such quick- sands exist. In a statement made to a representa- tive of The Call he said: “In the report which I forwarded to Washington last Saturday I made no mention of quicksand, nor did I even hint that I had doubts as to whether there is quicksand in the north- west corner of the lot, as I believe the soil thcre,, if not equally good as in other portions of the site, | is of a character that will support any amount of weight without danger of sinking.” It is to be hoped the disquieting rumor, to which Superintendent Roberts has just given the quietus, will be the last that will be launched against the site of thenewbuilding. San Francisco would longago have had the benefit of the new edifice, and the money put into circulation by its construction would be promot- ing the general trade and industry of the city, had it not been for the reports of this kind which have aroused antagonisms to the work at home and caused the officials at Washington to hesitate and delay in undertaking the construction. Granting as much as can be urged about delay on the part of the officials of the Government, the fact remains that San Francisco is without the use of the rew Federal building mainly because of dissensions among her own people. Certain elements here have fought against the proposed edifice as bitterly as if it were something that would injure instead of help San Francisco. The site has been denounced as unfit even for the location of a barn. It has been declared to be a bog, a fen, a lake, a sand- bar, a slough and a mudhole, and the Government has been warned time and again not to build any- thing on it at any cost. With the advent of the McKinley administration The Call, supported by the commercial and labor crganizations of the city, started an earnest move- ment to bring about an immediate beginning to the work of construction. Petitions were sent to Wash- ington urging action. Our Congressmen were prompted to press the Government architects to ad- vance the enterprise. These efforts were successful. The final survey of the site was made, the plan of the building was decided upon, bids were advertised for and contracts let. The people, breathing freely in the belief that the old local fight was over and that the work would go forward without let or hindrance, were astounded when the old story of quicksand was sprung again and for a time feared we were to have another hitch in the construction of the building. Fortunately short work has been made of the re- port this time. It has been authoritatively contra- dicted by Superintendent Roberts and will have no weight at Washington. The work on the edifice moves steadily along, and despite the opposition of ! THE PRESIDENT’'S SPEECH. N his speech on Thursday night at the meeting of l the national manufacturers in New York Presi- dent McKinley deliberately and studiedly takes leadership of the movement, in line with his plat- form, to reform our currency and banking systems to the ultimate of soundness and safety. His experience in politics serves to convince him that the fiatists will lfave the field to themselves, un- less “the Republicans and those who served with them in the last campaign” advance their plan and stand by it. This Congress may do nothing in the way of legislation, but the sound money Republicans and Democrats did not agree to quit the issue if this one Congress refused to adopt it. Their battle was begun to save an irreparable disaster in 1896, but was to continue until fiatism and empirical finance were purged utterly out of the system of the republic. The President is keenly alive to the dangers ahead, while not forgetful of those past and of the means and men who faced and foiled them with self-denying courage. He realizes thoroughly the need of lining up on the highest statement of prin- ciple and going to the country again if need be for | a second indorsement of the practice of honor in our finances. This sentence in his speech shows the clearest comprehension of the duty of the hour: “Half-heartedness never won a battle. Nations | and parties without abiding principles and stern re- solution to enforce them, even if it costs a con- tinuous struggle to do so and temporary sacrifice, are never in the highest degree successful leaders in the progress of mankind. For us to attempt nothing in the face of the present fallacies and the | constant effort to spread them is to lose valuable ground already won and practically weaken the forces of sound money for their battles of the fu- ture.” The result of 1896 makes it incumbent upon this Congress to pass sound currency legislation as much as to reform the tarif. The verdict was pointedly in favor of removing the disquieting doubts and the still more disquieting and dangerous certainties of our patchwork financial legislation. Since it began in the war emergencies of 1862 to the Sherman act of 1890 its every feature has been cas: to the necessities of some national or partisan emer- gency. The business of the country has not been consuited. When a new angularity has appeared in our financial statutes business has patiently warped itself into it, until trade, distorted, crippled and aching in every joint and muscle, has not the elas- ticity left to make further contortions. Any further 0000000000000 000000000000000000N000NN000000000000000000000000 0, demands in that direction will cause a break in-| stead of securing a bend. This is so well understood that business is ap- | palled at the prospect of being called to put its head and heels at the same time through the fiat hoop of | Bryan finance; but all men see, as does the Presi- | dent, that the hoop act is coming surely, unless there is an instant revival of courage, determination | and fellowship among the sound money forces. His speech is a bugle call to the scattering divisions | and to the indifferent and the idle who have been lulled into a feeling of safety since 1896. NO DIVISION OF THE STATE. | QJ when a notion in favor of dividing this grenti State seems to seize upon the editorial mind, | which in certain instances really believes itself to be | in earnest. Of course the matter is not worth con- sidering seriously. We are not permitted to look centuries ahead. In the future when the editorial hand of this day has turned to dust and his genius, soaring aloft, shall be engaged in agitating a scheme to divide heaven, there may be two Californias, or more. But even this is supposititious, even to the conjecture that the editor will be in heaven. He | may, instead, be engaged in dividing the other place. | However, the coming centuries may perhaps care for themselves. There is no need of worrying, and if our great, great and ten times great grandchildren choose to cut this glorious domain into as many States as it has counties now that will be their con- cern. They may do it, too, for every wise father knows that children are sillier than they were when he was young. | | | UST now there is manifest one of the periods 00O0CO0000000C0000000000 oo Yellow journalism prints what it has labeled a message from Zola. A short time ago it had one from the wife of Dreyfus. The lady took occasion to say that the communication was bogus. Zola is a busy man and may not go to this trouble. Still, it is hardly necessary that he should. The armed foreigners killed by natives in China cannot be thrilled over very tearfully. The fact is that they had no right there, and the Chinese who slew them are in exactly the same position morally as the householder who shoots an invading burglar. A Los Angeles paper speaks in a commendatory fashion of “true facts.” Tt is a pleasure to be able to regard its judgment with favor. The “true” fact is acknowledged by all competent authorities to be superior to any other known variety. ————— THE DAY OF THE CLIPPER PAST. “Stunsails out of fashlon!" safd the old skipper as he puffed vigorously at his old clay pipe. which has been around the Horn almost as many times as its owner. “Well, they may be; but it Is because finan- clal economy has abolished them on American ships. However, an old shipmate of mine, who is a bit of a crank, and left this port the other day, still carries & topmast stunsail. It may be for sentimental rea- sons, just as a Confederate veteran might 4display the flag under which he went to battle. But stunsalils arc just as practical to-day as ever. * ‘Studding sail,’ you say? Oh, yes; studding sal. may be literally correct, but Jack says ‘stunsail.’ He objects to mouthing participles and words with long endings. He wants brevity all the time, in every- thing, perhaps. except rum. The corruption of lan- guage by sallors is proverbial. Stunsall may a corruption of studding sail; but studding sail itself is a corruption of steadying sail, or steering sail, which, in my opinion, was the original term. he stunsail, 3 car; s n form of the immense sld?lsa?lx that is gllod th: s to fi “It cost 0 fit a ship with a suit of stunsalls. Their use means extra iabor for the crew, or a larger Tage takes valuable cargo room. crew, and their sto: This means expense for the ship, which her earnings in these days of rallroads and ocean tramps do not warrant. € cargoes that sailing vessels ca.n'{ to- day do not demand quick transportation, with its high freight rates. The modern sallin; ship is littie better than a floating warehonse. It fil not driven; lgnrs and canvas are not pressed as they were before the advent of the stu.m-hlg; Salling a ship to make @ short passage is one of the lost arts. There Is no demand for auxillary canvas such as stunsal The Per is out of it—defunct. contentious people who will never forgive the Goy- ernment for selecting a site without consulting them, we shall in due time see the work completed and our nrew Federal building standing among the ornaments of the city after giving employment to hun- dreds of workingmen and putting thousands of dol- lars into circulation among our trades and indus- tries. The possibility that Weyler may be imprisoned is overshadowed by the somber probability that he won't be. "Aw: in the middle of the century the Stars and Stri; floated over ships that were really clip- pers ow and aloft. In competition with one an- other and with foreign craft oue ol pers carried val- uable cargoes—tea from China, co{-e from Rio and fm; merchandise to San Francisco. The steamshi, do the tea and coffee carrying now. It was not In those days a go-as-you-please-run. The clippers were under_orders to efifl there to catch the top of a mar- ket. Hours saved op_their voyages, long though they many dollars for all concerned. Ships Wwith canvas that fairly smothered them in fair weather and foul, and Yankee seaman- its characteristic judgment and nerve, was racts t°al this 1 merery I can 1 ““Bu 8 Is 2 memory now. I can fan the cllpm of the fiftles comlry head-on, rlfl:; against clear sky of the lower latitudes, her sails mounting above the blue n, tier upon tier— -ky-mmmn.moonnkm' , cloudcleaners, a snow-white P! . an els’ footstool, as Jack 'says. d they m Aye, up to the royal yards!"—New 000000000000 00000 CAPPED THE CLIMAX. Santa Cruz Surf. The Jubllee number of The San Francisco Call Is what the boys call “a bute,” the handsomest edition of 2 newspaper ever issued on the coast. Better than the Christmas issue of the same paper because fewer pages, and there is more good judgment and typographic taste exercised in the matter and make-up. A mere enu- meration of its contents would be wearisome, and every reader can find out all about it for 5 cents. BT, SUCCESS IN EVERY wdy. Bakersfleld Callfornlan. The Jubflee edition of The Call is a work of art, and a success In a liter- ary way. It is one of the best special numbers ever published in the State. P L A HANDSOME PAPER. San Bernardino Free Press. The Sen Franclsco Call’'s Golden Ju- bilee edition is a very handsome and comprehensive affair. It {s full of in- teresting subject matter, handsomely printed, is a credit to California jour- nallsm, and the Supervisors were not asked to contribute a cent. ST A WORK OF @RT. Napa Register. Sunday's San Francisco Call, the Ju- bilee edition, was a work of art and filled with statistical and other matter bearing upon *the days of old, the days of gold, the days of '49.” I SRS UNPRECEDENTED FEAT. Merced Star. An unprecedented journalistic feat was accomplished by The Call on Sun- day, when special trains carrying its special Golden Jubilee edition were run to all parts of California, that to Los Angeles and way stations reach- ing Merced at 4:30 a. m., many hours ahead of The Call's rivals. To say that the special train and edition wero appreciated is putting it mild, and praises from all were constant and profuse. The special contained a wealth of information about the min- ing industry and ploneer history, be- sides its full quota of State, national and world news. Its {llustrations were exceptionaly fine. 0000000000000 0000 THE CALL’'S GOLDEN JUBILEE EDITION. 000000000000000000 THE RECORD FOR SPEED. Pasadena News. ‘The San Francisco Call made record time on Sunday between San Francis- co and Los Angeles. Sixty miles an hour with a specfal train is something to be proud of, especlally when the mountain grade over Tehachap! is taken into consideration. The Golden Jubilee edition was all that can be claimed for it, and marks a period in the progress of newspaper enterprise in the State of California. While not indorsing in full the policy of The Call, the News cannot, in justice, ignore the fact that The Call. under the new management, is rapidly férging to the front as a newspaper of the pure type, free from the taint of yellow. It is clean, newsy and fit to be admitted in- to any family circle, facts which will contribute to its future success. ing A JUBILEE SCOOP. Merced Evening Sun. The San Francisco Call scooped the other morning papers in a way that is sure to make Mr. Hearst's young men turn green with envy. The Call not only issued a splendid special Jubilee edition, but also sent it out to its country readers by special train. Yes- terday’s Call reached Merced before 5 o'clock in the morning, and judging by the fast time the train was making, it must have reached Los Angeles short- 1y after noon. This is the sort of newspaper enterprise that the country people appreciate. CALL EXCELLED ITSELF. Colusa Sun. The San Francisco Call has excelled even itself in its Jubilee edition, issued last Sunday. It has a beautifully illu- minated cover and contains cuts of every phase of mining, from the rocker to the hydraulic monitor, with each phase represented In history and in romance. It is as complete a Jubiles number as one could imagine, and in- deed it is a wonder how one could con- ceive and carry out so complete aplan. The Call is fast coming to be all that great wealth, with consummate busi- ness talent, can make of it. —_—— IN FRESNO AT DAYLIGHT. Fresno Expositor. The San Francisco Call not only got out a splendid Jubilee edition, but the papers were delivered in Fresno be- fore 6 in the morning. A bit of most commendable newspaper enterprise. ccoocooocooOQCOOR OOOOOOO00OO00OOO000‘00000000000000000000OOOOOO | | 1 | | © 0000000000000 0 [ | 50000000OOOOOO00000000000000000000000\ | o o © (] GAZING INTO As is well-known throughout the world, some months ago a treaty for the annexation of the United States to the British empire was negotiated be- tween President McKinley and the Queen. All the necessary steps for the immediate consummation of the treaty were taken and the proceed- ings ratified by the American Senate. Unexpected opposition, however, has been developed in Parliament, which has adopted the unprecedented meas- ure of referring the matter to a spe- cial committee, for its consideration and report. In this emergency, we are happy to announce that, at the earn- est request of friends of the treaty at ‘Washington, though in an unofficial capacity, President McKinley has crossed the Atlantic and his unexpect- ed arrival In London it {s our agree- 000000000000 0000000C000000000C0Q0CC000 TO SEE THE PRESENT. From the London Times of January 27, i902. FUTURITY | able duty to announce. Through his | characteristic modesty, he took the | Government by surprise, but the requi- site instructions have been already | promulgated, and he will be formally | received and entertained with all the | konors which could be paid to the | Breatest potentate in the world. It is understood that President McKinley will make no official effort to reduce the opposition to the treaty, but he will furnish all information which may be desired In relation to the United States, and his own presence will probably avert any further ef- fort by the demagogues who have ven- tured to resist the grandest achieve- ment of modern times. This is merely a repetition, on a higher scale, of the historical incidents which accompanied the annexation of Hawaii by the United States in 1898. 0 00C0000CO0000000000C00000C0C00000 600D THINGS [N THE SUNDAY CALL. O you think the young men of to-day have as good a chance to succeed in life as when you were a boy? It's a big question, a vital question when you pause in the rush of everyday life and consider how social conditions and business chances have swung around in the last decade or so. Think of the matter a bit, and you'll be surprised at the new condi- tions in life. A number of deep think- ers, like President David Starr Jordan, ‘W. H. Mills, W. T. Harris and Rabbi Voorsanger, set forth their views on this very important subject in next Sunday’'s Call. Read their articles, and you'll be startled at the new condition of affairs that is confronting the ris- ing generation. How would you like to be able to earn $28 60 every minute of the day whether you worked hard or indifferently? There's a man in this country whoearns that much every time sixty seconds is ticked off on the clock. He doesn't do it sawing wood, killing time or coun- terfeiting the national currency, but he pegs along as earnestly and indus- triously as the big majority of business men. How he is able to make so much, why he does it and the chances for ambitious poor folk to imitate his suc- cess are fully set forth in to-morrow’s Call. Another mystery for sclentists to solve has just occurred in the East. A lad committed a great crime, some say in a fit of insanity. Anyhow, imme- diately afterward he dropped off into a cataleptic sleep, and he has been in that condition for just three years. The other day he awoke, recognized a num- ber of people, did a number of queer things for a three years' sleeper and then dropped off into his strange con- dition again. The opinions of special- ists on his 0dd case are very interesting. The whole story of his crime and his peculiar sleep is told in next Sunday's Call. Did you know that in one of the big- gest countries of Europe there is a section where all the people—men, women and children—go about on stilts? The surface of the country is such that one can hardly get over it unless he is boosted high in the air. Hence the butcher, the baker, the can- dlestick maker and the postman hustle about their ly duties on long wood- en pegs. nually these high livers have exciting stilt races. The whole country-side turns out to see the sport, and one of those exciting races is fully described in to-morrow’s Call. Very: shortly the sportsmen of the State will be firlng away at a new bird that is being rapidly introduced here. It's a good game bird, and affords rare sport. Farmers, as well as sportsmen, ought to read about this new colonist, for the article in next Sunday’'s Call will tell what experts think of it as a crop destroyer. In to-morrow’s Call there are lots of other good things besides special fash- ions from Paris, theatrical, society and fraternal gossip and all the latest and best news of the day. READ THE SUNDAY CALL. COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS | 8. Lang, a mining man of Cripple Creek, is at the Palace. J. Eggers, a big cattle man of Elko, Nev., is staying at the Lick. E. W. Runyon, a capitalist of Red Bluff, is at the Palace with Mrs. Runyon. A. C. McLane, one of the best known of Redding’s business men, is a guest at the Lick. W. W. Moore, a well known member of Stockton soclety, is registered at the Grand. Cal. Prasins, a returned miner from Dawson, is among yesterday’s arrivals at the Baldwin. George B. Watten, a prominent busi- ness man and politiclan of Indianapolis, is at the Occidental. ‘W. C. Wolferis, another prominent vis- itor from Los Angeles, is in the city. He has registered at the Baldwin. ceerecececcces Marmaduke : Blithers is° an AN old gentleman UNPLEASANT ! who has passed a long life filled SEQUENCE ¢ Gyin expertences ¢ enough to over- eeeseseccccece flow a book. His home 1s in Texas, where he owns a large cattle ranch not far from the Mexican border, and hig present visit to the city is made in the effort to find, if possible, rellet from the pains of some old wounds contracted in the Mexican War, which have been troubling him of late. Mr. Blithers is not here in his entirety. A portion of him, namely, the lower part of his left leg, is on the battlefield of Shiloh, where he left it something over thirty years ago,and its place Is taken by a hollow plece of wood which on most | occasions does quite as well as the orig- | inal article and sometimes far surpasses that member in its usefulness. The fol- lowing s an instance when its utility led to a rather unpleasant sequel. The good citizen of Texas, whose home is anywhere near the border, never lets an opportunity pass of beating the revenue laws. Many and various are the schemes concocted for this worthy purpose, and he who strikes something original rises in the estimation of his fellows in pro- portion to the success that attends the effort of his genius. Mr. Blithers tried various devices, and finally hit upon the idea of filling the hollow of his peg with the contraband stuff. The first time he put the idea Into execution it was an un- qualified success, and great was his con- sequent satisfaction. But unfortunately his pride would not allow him to keep the secret to himself, and in a short time all the ranchers for miles around were made acquainted with his cleverness. After a while the stock of good stuff from across the line ran short, and Blith- ers thought he would make another trip. He got over all right, but on his return the customs officers pounced upon him and he had the pleasure of seeing his leg tapped and the good liquor, for which he had risked so much, drunk before his eyes. The officers confiscated his leg and horse as a punishment, and it took the unfortunate culprit two days to make his ‘way home through the desolate strip of country that lay between the place of seizure and his ranch. Martin Conrad, one of the leading men u:vm commercial world of Chicago, ar- rived from the East yesterday and went to the Occidental. Dr. W. P. Matthews, a physiclan well known in Sacramento, is down to this city on a pleasure trip. He Is to be found at the Grand. H. S. Hayward and wife, prominent so- clety people of Los Angeles, are guests at the Occidental, where they are staying during a short visit to the city. Mrs. E. Carroll Smith, one of the best known matrons of Chicago society, Is at the Palace on a visit to the coast. Mrs. Smith i{s accompanied by her mother. L. F. Monnypenny, one of the associate editors of the London Times, is in the city. He is making a tour of the United States for the purpbse of studying the industrial situation of the country. <eseesceoeses The elevator of A 1 the Occidental: 1s by two bro- SOMEWHAT & {ners of the MIXED : name of Arm- strong who are AFFAIR;--: twins to the minute, and so much alike that the transient guest who intends complaining of Bill often ends by tipping Fred. These young fellows hail from the County Connemara, and with that love of good horseflesh that all true sons of Erin possess, are continually fig- uring on the relative chances of the va- rious good things at the track, and en- deavoring to increase their scanty earn- ings by investments on the winners that they dally pick, after a judicious and | careful consideration of the tips that are supplied them by the sportively inclined guests to whom their falling is known. The other day one of these guests, who is interested in one of the books at the track, told one of the brothers that he knew of a horse down to run that after- noon who was bound to win if he did not drop dead, and that if the elevator boy wanted to send some money out he would carry it to the track and place it for him. The young fellow jumped at the chance, and, going down into his pocket, brought up seven dollars, which he hand- ed to the sport. ,The horse, a six-to-one | shot, came in all right, and when the bookmalker returned home in the evening p to his room. | the evening, as he was smoking his clgar in the office, he was approached by appa- rently the same fellow, who told him that he saw that the horse had won and who demanded his money. He was told that it had been paid, and, after listening to the story, vanished to return a moment later, accompanied by his brother, who denied having received a cent. ‘“Now you say you have paid in my winnings,” said Bill. “I am sure I have not received a cent, and Fred swears that he has not. Can you take your oath as to which one you gave the money?” The sport had to confess that he was up a tree as he could not be certain of either one of them, but as he claimed tHat he had al- ready made one payment he refused to make another. As the matter now stands, the betting among the other guests of the house is about even on whether one of the bro- thers has flimflammed the other, whether the sport has flimflammed the two boys, or whether the two boys put up a job and tried to work the sport a second time. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE MILLS BUILDING—H. §., City. There are 400 rooms in the Mills build- ing. MILITARY COMMUNICATION—P. J. N., City. A military communication is briefed by the receiver. NO OFFICE HERE—G. A. G., Temple- ton, Cal. The mining company namad has not an office in San Francisco. IRON—Fo., Alameda, Cal. The effect of suddenly plunging iron heated to a white heat into cold water is to contract the iron. PURITY—F. C., Palo Alto, Cal. C. W. Collins is the president of the Purity Club of San Jose and W. E. Jackson 1s the DAYS OF TI‘?‘E“;VEEK—MPB. G. W City. October 27 fell on Wedne: d: October 24, 1887, fell cn Thursday, March 25, 1887, on Wednesday. MR. KYTHA—O. S, City. A letter ad- dressed to Mr. Kytha, the Inventor of a modern revolver, in care of the office of ;;I\e Chief of Police, this city, will reach m. COLONTAL BILLS—T. E. G., San Jose. Colonial bills of 1760 are valuable only as_curiosities, and the value is graded only by the desire of a person to become possessed of such. BALL AND FLAG—J. M. P, City. The diameter of the gilt ball on the top of the flagstaff on the Claus Spreckels build- ing is one foot eight inches. The size of the flag floated from that staff is twen- ty-eight feet long by fifteen in width. IRISH LAND BILL—Readers, City. The Irish land bill passed July, 189, pro- vides for the sale to the tenants of the estates administered by the landed es- tates court. There is not a provision in the law that compels the landlords to part with thelr property. PRIZE-FIGHTERS—W. I. D., Mills Col- lege Postoffice, Cal. 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