The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 6, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANC a = SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 6, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. N Address All Communications t5 W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE. Market and Third Sts., S. F. | Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS. .217 to 221 Stevenson straet Telephone Main 1874 | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is cerved by carricrs In this city cnd surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail $6 per year. per month €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. OAKLAND OFFICE.. Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. 2 | NEW YORK OFFICE. Room 188, World Building ...One year, by mal!, $1.50 908 Broadway | ‘WASHINGTON (D. C. OFF Riggs House | C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. | BRANCH OFEICES--527 Montgomery street. eorner Clay open until 9:30 c'clock. 339 Hayes street: open untl! 030 o'clock. 621 MoAllister street: open until 9:30 c'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock £W. corner Sixteenth and Misslon streets: open until €o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock 106 Eleventh st.: open until9 o'clock, 1505 Polk straet cpen until :30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock. AMUSE 1ENTS. or—Black Patti's Troudadours Durand.’ own tn Dixie’ ces to-mOrrow ernoon. | February 7, Turkish Rugs, February Turkish and § P. M. BURYING THE ZOO SCHEME. ] HEN a scheme f{ undering the public has \\" been once well devised and put into the form of a job which has the attractive appearance of a municipal improvement, it is hard to kill. The peopl Francisco are having an experience of this truth in their struggle. against the zoo park scheme. It was killed last fall to all outward seeming as dead as a doornail, but is nevertheless reviving and of San ng to the front again like a weed which when or rooted in the soil defies all attempts to eradi- | cate it. There are many elements of persistent vitality in | the job. In the first place there is big money in it. In the second place there is a chance for the pro- moters of the job to pose as public spirited citizens seeking the general welfare of the community. The cc big money gives the means for a divy among a large number of people. The pretended public improvement affords a plaus- ible pretext by which. to deceive the un- wary. Thus there is in the scheme ample entice- ments for both knaves and fools, and it is not sur- prising that it survives one defeat and still flourishes, a promising boodle plant, in the municipal field. A scheme of this kind, if the people were at all in- different or careless on the subject, would be sure to succeed. Fortunately they are not indifferent, nor are they likely to be so. It is notable that every tinie the scheme presents itself opposition awakens at once vigilant and active. This spirit of individual | zeal to guard the public interest against a boodling | job is particulazly noticeable in the Mission, where the full extent of the scheme is best understood. The | taxpayérs and voters generally in that section of the | city are as alert to-day as they were in the height of the fight over the proposition when it was presented | Iast fall. | The Mission people intend to make effective work | in killing the scheme this time. They will show by | mass meeting and by protest such indignant objec- tion to it as will render futile and worthless any at- tempt to accomplish it. In this they will have the support of the taxpayers in all portions of the city. | The people, in fact, are tired of having this malodo~ ous job thrust under their noses. They will make sure of killing it by burying it this time, and if it is | ever dug up again they will next time bury with it every man who advocates it. e rr————— We had occasion some time ago to commend the Examiner for its newly acquired practice of publish- ing affidavits certifying the truth of any story in its | columns which could be verified in that way. The| commendation was well intended, but it has led the Examiner into excess in the affidavit line, for that paper is now engaged day after day in getting affi- davits certifying the accuracy of news published in The Call on the previous day. Thus it followed The Call's publication of the statement of Young Mitcheli concerning the price asked for the issue of permits for prize fights with an affidavit from Mitchell, and | yesterday it followed up The Call's story of the con- fession and arrest of Frank Belew with affidavits and | certificates from a host of officials of Solano County. This work is entirely unnecessary and uncalled for. | When the Examiner takes news from The Call it! should simply state the fact and then the people will know that the news is accurate. The people who know the least about the war scare over European aggression on the Chinese coast are probably the Chinese themselves, and it is likely they are also the people who care least. That wonderful yellow race has never failed to absorb every conquer- ing race that overran it in war, and the attempt of any European nation to build dominion there would be about as futile as an attempt to erect a tower on a quagmire. ST T One of the pleasing features of the situation of the | controversy over the equipment of the street cars with safety devices is the prospect that we shall now get the fenders without the boodle gang in the Board of | Supervisors getting that long desired $3500 apiece. This is a case where economy is as sweet to the public | as a pleasure that would have cost money enough to g burn a wet dog. | | —_— 1 In default of getting the news of the arrest of Frank 1 Belew until the day after it was published in Thc‘: Call, the Examiner yesterday made a great display l of certificates to the effect that it had long ago | guessed he was guilty. This morning it will probably i assert that the guessing was enterprise and claim it as a scoop. = . The Oakland bridegroom who two hours after his marriage told his bride “Now I have you where I want you and I will do what I please with you” clearly mistook the situation, as he wfll find out when she gets the divorce she has applied for and gives him | tent which enables them to furnish work for nearly all. the ha ha while enjoying her alimony. adll = | without deprecation, but with tacit approval, it is | that if this State assent to annexation it will | that we succeeded in getting Federal legislation | their arrest when they violated their contrdct and leit | fensive to us. THAT AGREEMENT WITH JAPAN. S the annexation press prints the tripartite agreement and particulars of the triple alliance between Dole, Hoshi and the United States necessary for American farmers and white labor to | We wish now to warn California here- after protest in vain against the new source of supply for coolie labor. It was only after years of education, costly agitation and many demonstrations of violence to check the invasion of Chinese coolies. And then it took years of effort to secure the useful enforcement of this legislation, overcoming on one hand Asiatic subtlety, and on the other the corrupt greed of American officials. With annexation following this new triple alliance, such means as we used against the Chinese will not make a ready impression. With one of our Senators declaring that his vote for the treaty is not a persona! act, but is done in deference to the wish of a ma- jority of the people of California, we occupy the po- sition of willing assent to an act that future distress and necessity will compel us to repudiate. And when we do the charge ‘that with all the facts before | us we assented to it will nullify our importunities and deafen the ears of the country to our appeals, no mat- ter how frantic they may become nor how well| grounded in the condition of our farmers and our labor. To get a view of the conditions to be made perma- nent by the agreement which Dole came here to se- cure we may turn to the official report made by Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald on his return from Hawaii last summer. Now he is toiling for annexa- | tion, Japanese coolies and all, but at that time he| used this language: “My investigation through the Hawaiian Islands has brought to my attention many new conditions and phases of labor, the most important of which is the Asiatic hordes that now infest the islands and pre- | dominate in numbers on the plantations. I have seen 20,000 bare-footed laborers, half of whom work under | a penal contract. I have seen a reward offered for be on the alert. the plantation and their number printed across their photograph in convict style. I have seen four or five hundred Japanese walk ten miles to back up the po- sition of one man when only a few days’ work was involved. I have seen murder upon the plantations 1 have heard the Japanese say that their peo- | ple have brought the sugar industry to the position which it now occupies and that they propose to hold the controlling influence upon the islands at any haz- ard. I have seen them demanding that white men should be discharged and Japanese taken in their place. I have seen one of our American men-of-war | anchored in the harbor for the purpose of defending | the planter aginst his own labor, and I have seen a warship of Japan at its side, simply to encourage the | Japanese upon the islands in their arrogance and in- | sulting behavior and to further demand that more be added to the already overburdened condition. On | the plantations the number and nationality of labor | is, by the last report, 1615 Hawaiians, 2268 Portu- guese, 12,893 Japanese, 6289 Chinese and about 715 of | other nationalities. The Hawaiians are the best work- | men. It needs no words to paint the future of these | islands when once the Japanese become the employers of help. the moneyed power and the labor itsclf.” Against this somber background is thrown the re- | cent Dole agreement. Let it be remembered, too, that | the conditions so vividly painted by the Labor Com- | nissioner were deliberately created by the Doie | Government and by it maintained. Its power has becn absolate. N5 popular vote has been permitted to dis- lodge it or to interfere with its will. It has been supreme. It could have prevented that which it has chosen to permit, therefore its permission is a cer- | tificate to its belief that such coolie labor is necessary, :md.lh:\t this necessity is among “the peculiar condi- tions and the needs of labor” referred to by President McKinley in his message, and had in mind by Oli- garch Dole when he said, “I believe the United | States will give us separate laws to secure the labor we need.”” All of this fits into the new agreement, into an act that makes the question an international | one with Japan, and therefore removes it ' further away from the power of the people of the United | States to change when its results are reflected in the | distress and disappointment of our own people. There is but one course for the United States to safely pursue. This is pointed out by the resolution offered by Senator White, which is simply a renewal of the Turpie resohution of 1804, by which the islands are neutralized, made independent and left to work out their own problems under the physical conditions | which make those problems peculiar to them and of- in riot. SIGNS OF PROSPERITY. ° CCORDING to the Brooklyn Times the office fl boys employed in some of the largest buildings in that city laid plans to form a trades union to redress their grievances. They met, discussed the matter thoroughly and- finally decided to organize as 4 baseball club. The incident is a whimsical but none the less re- liable sign of the times. Men of all classes, wage- earners, producers, merchants, professional men, meet now as formerly to discuss their grievances, be- cause under the Democratic regime they got in the | habit of it. The longer the discussion goes on, how- ever, the less they find to grieve over, so each com- pany in its own way finally decides to organize for the enjoyment of prosperity. The bascball nine takes the place of the grievance committee, and the strike that means a home run is the only strike that captures the crowd. In San Francisco we have had this winter a most gratifying evidence of revived prosperity. That evi- dence is to be found in the absence from our civic life of the problem of the unemployed. For many | winters past we have been disturbed by that problem. We met it in one way or another as often as it came up and managed in each crisis to provide 4 temporary solution, but never altogether put an end to it. The unemployed remained with us each winter until the beginning of work on the farms and in the orchards of the interior drew many workers from the city and relieved the strain until the succeeding November. This season no such problem has presented itself. The clamor of industry seeking work and wages has not been heard. There are of course some workers still out of employment, but there are no longer great masses of them. We have had no occasion to take up contributions for boulevards or any other kind of public enterprise. Labor and trade have no longer any grievances or are too busy to heve time to meet and complain of them. The change is the more notable because the lack of rain has prevented the beginning of work in the rural districts which at this season usually employs so many men in the fields and orchards. The indus- tries of this city alone seem to have revived to an ex- Had the due proportion of rain fallen during the fall and early winter the farms of the State would now be the scenes of busy activity and the industry of Cal- ifornia would be enjoying a boom. Protective legislation is doing its work well. In spite of droughts and unpropitious weather it is fur- nishing employment for the people and bringing prosperity to all. From East to West the good in- fluence is felt. The principles of Republicanism are vindicated by their results. There is once more hope in the heart of the American worker and comfort in his home. AN OFFICIAL COMEDY. HE “investigation” undertaken by the Finance Committee of the Board of Supervisors on Fri- day into the charge of attempted blackmail brought against Captain Delany throws completely into the shade the funniest farce-comedy ever put upon the stage in San Francisco. If the thing had | a plot its opera bouffe features would commend it to the immortal Gilbert. If there were any sense in it Hoyt would pay a heavy royalty for the privilege of putting the irresponsible “Cappun” before the foot- lights. No wonder the risibilities of the town have been irritated at the spectacle. The investigation is enough to excite the humor of a horse. In the first place, the Committee on Health and Police consists of Delany, Rivers, Haskins, Devany and Rottanzi. This committee has charge of the pub- lic pound, and it is supposed that in making his pro- position to the representative of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Captain Delany spoke for his colleagues as well as for himself. In- deed, it is alleged that in the prize ring permit mat- ter Haskins did speak for the committee. If there is any truth in the charges it is safe to say that the members of the Commit- tee on Health and Police have an understand- ing as to percentages. The Finance Committee, which attempted to “investigate” the matter, consists of Rottanzi, Devany and Haskins. Here then are two Supervisors at least who belong to the pound com- bine sitting in judgment upon the action of the chair- nan of the combine. But as if this were not sufficiently laughable, the line of inquiry developed on Friday was calculated to produce an explosion. The Finance Committee apparently did not consider Delany on trial at all. Tt at once assaulted Wadham, the complaining wit- ness, and permitted Delany to prove in detail that he is a liar, a blackguard, an associate of criminals and generally a person of wretched character. Evi- dently the committee assumed that Wadham had been charged with attempting to extort $500 from Delany. All it asked of the latter was a general de- nial. that it did not report Wadham to the Grand Jury for indictment. Surely his offense of reflecting upon the integrity of the angelic Delany is more than heinous. One point, however, the committee seems to have overlooked. Captain Delany testified that he talked with Wadham about the amount of money the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has in its treasury. Delany heard the amount was $18,000, and he says he innocently asked Wadham about it. But he said nothing regarding a $500 fee for giving the pound to the society. To the average man it will ap- pear somewhat strange that the Supervisor should be so deeply interested in the financial standing of the society. In any event, a record which contains this admission by the captain looks bad. The Finance Committee should expunge the testimony on the ground that it is incompetent, irrelevant and imma- terial. Doubtless on reflection Delany will consider that he should not have said it, as that is a good rea- son for striking it out. For the rest it is sufficient to say that the next time the committee meets it should hire an orchestra and open at one of the theaters. It is a shame that so much fun should be confined to so small an audience as met with the committee on Friday. DEFECTIVE AMMUNITION. ¥ RTILLERY ammunition tests made at the fl Presidio have disclosed so large a proportion of worthless shrapnel among the shells fired as to lead to the conclusion that fully 50 per cent of the stock of that kind of ammunition at the post is virtually worthless. It appears the wall of the shell is not sufficiently strong to resist the concussion of the propelling charge of powder, and the shell, in- | stead of being effective at the point desired, explodes almost as soon as it leaves the gun. The ammunition tested is not old. It was furnished to supply the new breech-loading rifled cannon with which the light batteries of artillery have been re- cently equipped, and is a part of that new de- fense system the development and extension of which the country has watched with so much gratification. It is the first warning we have had that the ammuni- tion on which our soldiers in battle would have to de- pend for victory, and our cities for defense, is defective, and the issue is therefore a matter of grave public concern. The discovery of defective armor plate supplied for our new warships disclosed not long ago that the supervision of the equipments of the navy was either careless and inefficient or else corrupt. The people were loth to attribute any of the fault in that case to the officers of the navy, and by common consent the manufacturers of the plate were blamed. It was noted with surprise, however, that none of the manu- facturers were punished, that the offense was con- doned and the matter hushed up at Washington. The present discovery of so large a proportion of worthless shrapnel in the ammunition supplied to the army will recall the old scandal of defective armor plate in the navy, and this time there will be less willingness on the part of the people to let the affair pass as one of little moment. It is time to have an investigation, not only of the contractors who furnish supplies for the army and the navy, but of the depart- ments at Washington that test and accept them. The evil is the more serious because of the manner in which the report of the discovery is said to have been received by the War Office at Washington. General Flagler, chief of ordnance, when questioned on the subject said: “This is a matter of small im- portance, as the shells are used in small caliber or field guns and have no relation whatever to high power gun defense.” He added, “The first lot fur- nished by the American Ordnance Company, tested some time ago, was reported to be satisfactory, and the fact that a great proportion of those tried at the Presidio were defective need not worry the San Fran- cisco people.” If the ordnance office of the War Department takes that view of a discovery that 50 per cent of a certain class of ammunition furnished the army is defective, | it is not likely that contractors will be very careful to improve the ammunition hereafter. To the popu- lar mind the issue is by no means a matter of small importance. If this country is to prepare for war in time of peace it should prepare for it with a quality of ammunition that will be effective when war comes. Various of the powers are finding that the rule of honor among thieves is not accepted by the thief who has the biggest club. Under the circumstances it is somewhat strange officers THE “SCOOP” OF THE YEAR. The Call scored one of the most not- able “scoops” in many a day in its exclusive account of the arrest of Frank Belew, the alleged murderer of. his brother and sister at Dixon. was a good piece of work well done. And by the way, the manner in which the case has been worked up by the example for the city “sleuths.” They can well take lessons from some of the hayseed officers. little of their- detective ability some CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1898. gflflfiflflfififinflbflflflflfimfinfifififlfifififlfififl)&fifififi Danny Foley had a goat. That Is to say, Danny Foley had two goats. The big black one, the mother goat, was Nan. The small one, Nan's daughter, was calied Nannie. Nannfe was white, and Nannfe had been so petted and spolled as a child that, though she had reached years of discretion—which In goatville means that she rivaled old Nan’s two quarts at milking time—she could never be in- duced to abide by rules and regulations. It 1s impossible to explain to a Mission goat—be she white or black, Nan or Nannie—the logic of the pound- keeper. Self-preservation being the first law of goat na- ture, and the giving of plentiful rich milk a censcientious goat’s whole duty, where is the sense in refraining from cropping the short, sweet, new grass that has sprung up all over the Mission hills after the rain? Nannie beheld the rounded hills with their emerald covering. And without a word to staid Nan, she sped up and out the few steps to the street, below which Danny Foley’s yard is sunk about six feet. A poet like Daudet could tell you how Nannie enjoyed her freedom and the fresh grass the rain had called forth. But her joy was cut short by the appearance of old Nan, Nan had missed Mademoiselle Nannie. She had stood for a moment in deep thought. Then she, too, but with a deliberate, digni- fied four-step, had mounted the short stairway and fol- lowed on the track of her runaway daughter. It must be confessed that Nan was not so stern as she should have been when she discovered the abandoned young woman luxuriating in the molst young grass. But it must be remembered that Nannie's position in the Foley family out on Army street, near Sanchez, had always been a priv- ileged one. Nan decided wisely that &s she had found the young scapegrace, she, too, might as well eat hay while the sun shone. When small Danny Foley in his brown overalls, his gingham shirt and his shapeless old’ cap, found the two, they were disgracefully exhilarated, the effect partly of too much liberty, partly of too much grass. Danny chid Nan. She should have known better, he told her. Nan made no answer, but out of the corner of her meek, red eyes she looked at Nannie. Nannie flirted her graceless heels toward the blue Mission sky. Repentance, much less confession, was far from her unregenerate heart. So Nan had to be the black goat, and walk in sorrow and 4 shame ahead, listening to Danny’s repeated reproaches, bearing the insult and injury of the switch Danny bore; and hypocritical Nannfe permitted her old mother to suffer in silence, while she assumed a virtuous, very vouthful air of Innocence, which was altogether convincing to Danny, who l:;dl:s susceptible as any. Irishman, old or young, to female Nan sulked on in advance. stairs now that lead tragedy occurred. Like a thunderstorm on a summer day, with the resist- less swirl of a woman bound for the bargain counter, or a man for a prize fight, the Assyrian—that is to say, the poundman—swooped down, a wolf on the fold. Danny made a few remarks. They were couched in lan- guage of which his pretty, youthful, gray-eyed, dark-haired Irish mother would probably have disapproved. But Danny's eloquence was in vain. Danny is only 10, and, very likely, he is t00 young to do the subject justice When Danny is older, now, the chances are that the pound- man—if any of that barbarous species survive—will not find Danny Foley at a loss to put into words his opinion of sneaks in general, and poundmen in particusar. Danny bade Nannie an affectionate farewell. He had always loved the small sinner. When she and he were kids together—Danny is 10, which means that Danny is a man in his own estimation now—they had played and slept and—yes, eaten together. As to Nan, Danny had no kind word for the old black goat. It was all her fault, he told her, savagely, for leading poor little Nannie away from home. So the poundman took the two from the very threshold of Mrs. Foley’s little place, and the great city of San Fran- cisco became $5 richer in consequence. For a thrifty man out that. way bought Danny Foley’s goats, little Mrs. Foley being unable to afford the sum which would have given back to her her own. But Danny Foley belongs to a powerful, though an un- organized society. He is a full member of that great insti- tution of Young America, which pretends to an observance of the laws laid down by the community, but is in reality amenable only to its own lawless public opinion. The poundmen, therefore, have to reckon now with Boy- ville. The boys of the Mission are leagued against them. Effl((‘g new séflr,\' ‘h::édcumes to nght. revealing the methods o e poundmen, s _a recruit to the already pc - thority of the Mission Boy. g note g The Mission Boy has heard with disgust the tale of Mrs adison’s five cows. He knows how hard the poor wo man “worked up" from one cow to five; how she supported her invalld busband and herself by means of these same cows; how a spiteful neighbor distorted fhe facts in the case, so that Mrs. Madison's meek sources of revenue appeared to be trespassing. He tells with rage of the appearance of the Roundm?n at 2 o'clock at night, and of the Highland raid which resulted in Mrs. Madison's five cows becomin, charge of the city. He knows that the poor, hard-working woman was not notified of the contemplated seizure, and he also knows that she had to pay $2—a great sum for people dependent on a five-cow dairy—before her property was given back to her. He remembers that the timid woman, ignorant of the operation of red tape and fearful of the mighty officials, sold her one means of making a living at a loss, so fearful was she of the unknown dangers she might meet in her encounter with the valiant poundmen. The Mission Boy tells you of the seizure of a3 widow's one goat, which was tethered out on the swelling hill, while its owner sat beside it milking it. He multiplies instances of what to him is a high-handed, unfair, even cruel pro- ceeding. He points to the unoccupied hills teeming with rass. He shows you Mrs. Madison's little home, the very ast house upon the hill. He says, boastfully, that when summer comes he and his gang will set fire to the dried grnss that remains on thése hills, just for pure sport. Ana e asks you, why in the name—not of the strict letter of a strained law—but of common sense and charity, the house- wives at the extreme end of the Mission world, who are as th‘rirty as they are poor, may not benefit by nature's gener- osity. But the Mission Boy, after all, iS not given to words. knows a better argument—deeds. against the poundman. There is no skulking cur so mean that he will not now take it under his protection. When the poundman appears, a small satellite, not in conjunction, but full of opposition, appears also. If there remain in the canine outcast the faintest remnant of his once strong instinct, if he can ap- reciate a hint, if he be clever enough to recognize a riendlg ‘warning, the poundman loses this particular dog. To be sure, he sometimes revenges himself by casting the Mission Boy into the wagon of snarling dogs as a temporary substitute for the one which has escaped. But boy-life is long and philosophical. All one has to do is to_struggle out away with an additional grudge against”the common enemy, and to form one’s self into a perpetual committee of one to continue to harass and defeat the poundman wher- ever and whenever it is possible. When you remember what an active committee one boy is, and then multiply that activity by the Mission Boy in general, you'll realize the difficulties in the poundman’s way, and i you're thinking of serving San Francisco, you'll prob- ably decide that it shall be in some other capacity. She had almost reached the down to Foley's back yard when the He He has declared war COLLECTED IN @lameda Encinal. It of Solano County is a good If they had a o) THE CORRIDORS W. F. Jewett, a wealthy banker of Port- land, is stopping at the Palace. A. P. Richardson, a leader in Boston soclety, is staying at the Palace. J. K. Toole, ex-Governor of Montana, is at the Occidental with his son. Professor B. C. Clark of Clark’s School, | Santa Cruz, is a guest at the Grand. | Alden Anderson, a wheat man Sufsun, is a guest at the Occidental from | ‘OOOOOOOOOg 1o of the many unexplained and unpun- ished murders in the city would be- fore this have been solved, A NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT. Berkeley World. The San Francisco Call achieved =z notable ‘‘scoop’ in its account of the capture of the notorious Dixon mur- derer. Nelther of its contemporaries had any news of the occurrence. —_————————— WILL YOU WALK WITH ME THE DAY? A Derry Duologue. “Will you walk with me the day, Rose Do, O’ Doherty &lnlfl away, Roseen Dhu? To a ribbon vou are ready, And the sun is shinin’ steady; ‘Will you walk with me the day, Rose aroo?"’ “I'1l no walk with you the day, Mr. Casesidy, Not _the long nor little way, Master John. The sun is shinin’ steady, And for Trillig Banks I'm_ready, m_walkin' there the day with Cousin on.” “"What's your raison ‘“Who was he that on @ pleasure boat, ‘When :e’d wired ‘Domestic duty keeps me ‘here.’ 1 _caught out exch: ‘With some light young- Miss or Mrs. 'l’h’rollfh 7‘f:‘tm‘l telescope from off of Derry pler’ n' kisses #"Pwas myself between the puffing Juno's addle-boxes, 1 confess it, claimin’ kisses with a will From no foolish, forward stranger, But, safe out of stormy d:nfier. From my sister off the liner at Moville."” “Wlllo‘ u W:lk with me the day, Rose There, jewel, “tis too sore you're takin' on.* “T e’auld bear it—if ym’d—«bllm me— But_with kindness—so to shame me! Yes! Il walk—Tll walk—forever-with you, ohn.** —Alfred Perceval Graves in the Sketch. A. L. Levensky, a prominent attorney of Stockton, is registered at the Palace. George Hoppel, a well-known wholesale :mlzn of Los Angeles, is at the Occiden- al. C. L. La Rue, politician and member of the Legislature from Yountville, is at the Grand. 4 J. 8. McKean, 1} S. N., is down from | Mare Island and is staying at the Cali- | fornia. ; Larin Farr, a wealthy mining man of Ogden, is among last night's arrivals at the Lick. Willard Wells, the leading druggist of Eureka, is among those who have regis- tered at the Grand. R. C. Miller, a mine owner and leading resident of Fort Collins, Colorado, Is a guest at the Baldwin. P. Dueber, the Spokane theatrical man, has come down to the city on a business trip and is at the Grand. F. W. Craig and J. L. Depauli are two big ranchers from Bakersfield, who are to be found at the Baldwin. M. McDermott and J. J. Griffith are two prominent Chicago business men who ar- rived at the Palace yesterday. R. A. Bently, one of Sacramento's most prominent lawyers and politicians, is at | the Lick on a short visit to the city. F. A. Hartman, one of the best-known | men in Los Angeles business circles, is at the California with his brother, F. C.| Hartman. Hugh D. Cralg, president of the Cham- ber of Commerce, returned from Mexico yesterday, where he has been for some ' time past on a pleasure trip. Mr. Cralg | expresses himself as having had a very good time, and is high In his prafse of Mexican hospitality. While in the land | of frijoles and mescal, he met a nauyei son in the person of Father Dye, who is 3 | professor of philosophy and Eng&sh 1it- & ¢ | erature in the Roman Catholic school at & DANNY FOLEY’S GOATS; 1 | Duranso. \ % A hort | time g oR, g‘oaocooooogasot;fl‘_’;s.‘_flved & WHY THE MISSION BOY HATES THE POUNDMAN. ;io WHY o from one o the o ~ | oCLERK O'BRIEN o L;‘J;ea“ 1;;“';‘;,‘2 mxaum:mamunm:nnnunumfiflfifififififififlfifififi“fig O IS SAD. © jngiy tan getle- man, who regis- o o 0000000000 g0 at the Pal- ace. He was on a visit of pleasure, &nd, after spending a few days In taking in the sights of the city, departed for Monte- rey, not notifying the hotel people whire he was going or that he expected |to a shortly return. After his departure handsome cane was found in the apa ments he had been occupying, which turned in to the office. The cane attrad- ed the fancy of both Clerk O'Brien and Clerk Cummings. and, as the strang¢r had left no address, they, rather than sée such an artistic bit of wood go to wasts, decided to match for the possession of il Cummings won, and finding the stick top long for his rather short figure, he took it to a dealer in such articles, where il was considerably shorteped and a new ferule put on it. When Cummings re- cefved it back he became disatisfled with it, so, after using it for a day or two, he approached O’Brien and, finding that gen- tleman’s admiration for the staff as warm as ever offered to sell it to him for $2. The bargain was effected and every one was happy. The next day the strang- er returned from Del Monte and entering the hotel went up to Cummings and said: “When I left here a few days ago I overlooked a cane that I brought with me. Have you seen anything of it?” “Yes,” sald Cummings, “it was found in your room and turned in here; if you ask that gentleman”—pointing to O'Brien —*he will give it to you.” The stranger moved up to the other end of the desk and repeated his question. O'Brien’s face dropped about a foot, and going down behind the counter he fished up his $2 purchase and hahded it over without a word. The stranger looked at it for a moment, then sald: “This is certainly my stick, but in some unaccountable manner it seems to have grown much shorter in the few days I have been away. I have heard many tales of the remarkable growths pro- duced by your wonderful climate and have, heretofore, been rather skeptical, but, after this I am ready to swallow anything. I can no longer use it myseif, so I will take it home for my son.” O'Brien is walting for the climate to perform another miracle and cause his $2 bill to bloom again. - Thomas Hill, the artist who painted the famous picture of the Yosemite Valley is at the Palace, where he arrived yes- terday from Wawona. C. D. Hazard, the millionaire mining man of Plumas County and owner of the famous Imperial placer mine, has re- turned from his recent business trip to the East, and {s again registered at the Occldental. Frank Willard Kimball, a prominent young attorney of San Luis Obispo, is in the city on professional business. He states that the present rains will be of inestimable benefit in his section of the State, where great damage to stock and other interests would have resulted from a much longer continuance of the dry spell. A very seedy specimen of the racing fraternity appeared before Judge Low ves- terday charged o o JUDGE LOW o INDULGES © © IN REP ARTEE. °© O with drunken- o 000000 O0O0O0O pess. The judge, after thoroughly sizing him up, said: “As you cannot deny your condition when the officer arrested you last night, possibly you can give some explanation of how you came that way.” ““Well, your honor,” answered the pris- oner, “it was like this: You see, I went out to the track in the afternoon, and, as things were coming my way, I made a pretty good stake. When I got back in town I thought, as I had been getting the worst of it for a long time, I would force my luck a bit while the ball was rolling toward me. So I started down the line, playing whisky straight, the police to show and the prison for a place. It was a hot combination, but it won, as you can see this morning.” The judge was staggered for a moment, but quickly recovering himself he turned {0 the clerk and said: “It looks to me as if the principal blame should rest with the handy capper who started this fellow carrying so much weight, so you had bet- ter scratch him for running foul and tell him never to come back on this track.” ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. VOTERS—Enquirer, City. Based upon figures obtained during the census of 1890 and others obtained since, the lat- ter estimates, it is estimated that sev- enty-six sFer cent of the voters in the United States are native born, and twenty-four per cent are naturalized cit- izens. FREE HOSPITAL—C. T. Monterey, Cal. There are in San Francisco several places where indigent women are treated medi- cally and surgically free of charge. 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