The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 16, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1898 The WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 16, 1898 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprieto. o sdisaae | Address All Comtunications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS.......... .2IT to 22! Stevenson street Telephone Main 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY)Is served by carriers In this clty and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month | €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. .One vear, by mail, $1.50 QAKLAND OFFICE...... 908 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE.. ..Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE . .... Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street. eorner Clay open untll 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street: open untll | 9:30 o'clock. 621 MoAlllster street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until So'clock. 9518 Misslon street: open untll 9 o'clock 106 Eleventh st.; open until9 o'clock, 1505 Polk street cpen until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open until § o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—The Bostonians. Callfornia—Black Patti Troubadours. Columbia—* What Happened to Jones.” Aleazar—"Charley ant.” Moroseo’s—"Shenandoah.” Tivoli—“Sald Pasha- Orpheum—Vaudeville. Bush—Thalia German-Hebrew Opera Co., Sunday night. Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Speolaities. The Chutes—Chiquita and Vaudevilie. Mechanies’ Pavilion—Mining Fair and Klondike Exposition, | California Jockey Club, Oakland Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. By Emil Cohn—This day. February 16, Stationery Store, at 18 Larkin street, at 11 0'c By Killlp & Co.—Saturds 1 , February 19, Horses, at Oakland av, February 24, Real Estate,at | 636 Market street. at n's ———————————————————————————— CULTIVATING CRIME FOR PROFIT. HEN a few months ago there was an ap- \,\/ palling murder committed in New York the | Journal of that city offered a reward for the as: detection. The guilty were caught, yet, strangely enough, the police take credit for this, and a little investigation shows that they had presumed to manifest an interest in the case, notwithstanding yellow journalism had claimed it for its own. All the police did was to follow clews, gather evidence, arrest the criminals and assist in their prosecution. Yellow journalism did the rest, this consisting in howling a pean of praise to itself and offering a re- | ward. There was no need of the offer; of course | the praise may be regarded as inevitable. Now there has been another murder of a pecu- liarly shocking type, and the sheet has followed the | The principle is vicious precedent set by itself. wrong, the act useless save for advertising purposes, and the effect is certain to be harmful. If there are to be extra rewards offered regularly for the detec- tion of crime, if reporters are to do detective work, the salaries paid to the police might as well be saved. Instead of trying to earn their lawful and adequate learn to wait until the editor | has decided how much he can afford to pay. | The standing reward for the detection of a gory criminal will produce the crime, and somebody will be brought forward as the culprit. There are men in every large city who would commit murder for a small part of a thousand dollars and without hesi- tancy placé the guilt upon an innocent person. It is men of this class whom yellow journalism, with its heralded rewards, is now trying to win from the To do this, to undermine the usefulness of regular peace officers, and to get some cheap advertising are the objects sought, the first two being merely incidental THE DOLLAR LIMIT. HE Board of Freeholders, in the charter which Tthey propose to submit shortly, have adopted a | limit on municipal taxation in the following form: “But such levy, exclusive of the State tax and the tax to pay the interest and maintain the sinking funds of the bonded indebtedness of the city and county, shall not exceed the rate of $1 for each $100 | valuation on the property assessed.” | his clause is modeled after the taxation limits | adopted by the municipal conventions of fifteen or eighteen years ago. Experience proved at that time that the proposed limit was a limit at only one end. The maximum rate is $1 on the hundred, but nothing is said about the assessment roll. A rate of $1 on a | $300,000,000 roll will, as may readily be seen, yield a | smaller sum in taxes than the same rate on a $400,- 000,000 roll. All the tax eaters need do in order to | control this limit js to increase or decrease the as-i sessment roll. The master of the limit will, then:-1 | officers will sala ranks of the unemployed. fore, be the Assessor. A genuine effort was made by the local politicians in the early "80's to ascertain the merits of the dollar | limit on taxation. Both parties adopted a pledge | embodying the limit now proposed by the Freehold- | ers. The Republicans carried the city in 1879 and | again in 1881. Their Supervisors violated the pledge in the first instance and kept it in the second, causing in the latter year a deficit which stopped work on the highways and sewers and extinguished the street | lights for several months. It was found in 1883 that | unless the assessment roll was made a subject of | pledge the cost of government could not be perma- | nently reduced. It was then that the practice of pledging Supervis- ors to levy a tax of $1 on an assessment roll of a specified amount was invented. This solved the problem completely and government would long ago | have been cheapered in San Francisco had boards of Supervisors ever devoloped a disposition to com- ply with the spirit of their pledges. Their practice, | however, has been not to endeavor in good faith to; conduct the city on the amount allowed by the muni- | cipal conventions, but to discredit taxation limits and political pledges by loading the payrolls of the city down with useless tax eaters and creating deficits. | In this way they have hoped finally to force the tax- payers to abandon all idea of curtailing expenses. ! If the Freeholders are going to adopt a limit on | taxation, therefore, it will be well for them to devote some study to the history of the subject. The limit | they propose cannot be expected to enforce econ- | omy. All the tax eaters need do in order to produce the money necessary to give us extravagant govern- | ment will be to swell the assessment roll. Perhaps no limit which can be formed will exactly meet the re- | quirements of the situation. But would it not be a | good idea to arbitrarily fix the maximum yearly ex- penses of the government and require the unanimous ! concurrence of Mayor and Supervisors to set it ! aside? This might give the taxpayers a chance to tontrol the tax eaters. |'began. | wonderful natural resources, now partly known and | known to the outside world. Guarded by its moun- | edge about them than the world of to-day has of the | Dark Continent. | achievement | ditions of Pizarro and Cortez. | by the adventures of the Pathfinder, was inflamed by | | the vision of wealth. The pastoral civilization of the | of its more permanent resources was so meager that | be found peculiar to itself, different from those of the | to the confines, ten States have been erected. We CELEBRATE OUR SEMI-CENTENNIAL. ALIFORNITA was admitted September 9, 1850. In 1900 she will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of her statehood. How shall it be done? To appreciate the achievements of that half century ~one must reflect upon the conditions under which it For a hundred years there had been here and there on this soil a dreamy civilization. It had slept and enjoyed its reveries in unknown contact with the into the Union | partly developed. From clustering around the early missions it had secured here and there a foothold in our grassy valleys, where the lords of the great grants lived as the Highland chiefs lived, in the midst of their clans. Flocks and herds roamed at will in the valleys, cropping their forage, sharing it with the deer, elk and antelope, and sharing with them also the risks from mountain lions and their predatory partners. Beyond the ecclesiastical authority, seated in the missions, there was no conspicuous attempt to found institutions, and, in justice to those pioneers of civilization, it must be admitted that their simple lives gave but small occasion for the exercise of governmental authority. California was but little tain wall on the east and by the wide stretching deserts of water on the west, its topography, physical geography, its seasons and its soil and sky were the subject of interesting speculation, as the vast reaches of Africa are now, but there was less actual knowl- Fréemont came as an explorer, and though this generation cannot realize it, his own time recognized in him all that civilization sees now Livingstone, Speke and Stanley. The simple story of his trials, his passing of parched deserts and scaling | of lofty mountains; his nights in the somber forest on guard against wild beasts and wilder men; his descent upon the plains, all the marvels which ‘he first brought to the world’s attention, appealed to the im- agination and inspired romance. It was the first to excite the fancy and rouse the spirit of adventure in the New World since the expe- | Followed closely byi' the discovery of gold, the world's imagination, fired | in country was swept from the valleys by the besom of | a crusade before which crumbled all that had been. When the admission of California was put among the compromises of 1850 in Mr. Clay’s omnibus bill | this State was introduced upon the theater of national | politics. Though it was yielding gold, the knowledge | many things in the debates on Clay’s measure seem | remarkable now. Webster’s speech will always stand | as a monument to his genius. The ultra Southern | sentiment resisted the admission of California as free State because it would destroy the sectional bal- ance. Free and slave States had entered the Union in pairs; Vermont and Kentucky in 1791-92; Tennes- see and Ohio 1796-1802; Louisiana and Indiana 1812-16; Mississippi and Illinois 1817-18; Alabama a| der and the first compromise. Missouri and Arkansas came in 1820-36, and the Mis- souri compromise line of 36 minutes 30| seconds was drawn, south of which all should be slave and north all should be free. Between 1820 and 1846 four slave States came in and only one free. In the next two years came two free States, and then California knocked with the line of 36 minutes 30 sec- onds dividing her into two nearly equal parts. Begin- ning at about Cypress Point, on Monterey Bay, that line crossed the San Joaquin Valley between Fresno and Visalia, crossed Mount Whitney and cut off the northernmost sands of Death Valley. If those who stood by the compromise of 1820 had prevailed, slav- | ery and freedom would have met at that line. The situation was portentous, and - the came in the speech of Webster. Turning to the Sen- ators of the slave States he told them they would lose nothing. Slavery was an incident of physical conditions. It had receded from New England and the Middle States because in their climate it was un- profitable, and, like every system of labor, the essence of its being was in its profit. Then, turning to Cali- fornia, he said it was, in its physical geography and its topography, Asiatic. It differed in these respects from the rest of the continent. Its products would solution rest of our domain. Chattel slavery had never flour- ished in Asia for physical reasons, and, as Congress could not repeal nor compromise a natural law, slav- ery, if founded in this Asiatic atmosphere, would per- ish and fade away. Looking backward through the events and across the development of two score years and eight, one stands as enchanted in the presence of Webster, struck with the universality of his knowledge and the prophecy that was fh his analysis. The source of his information has been a mystery to students. But it is known that he gained it from a man who was by na- ture an empire builder and the keenest observer of nature and her resources this coast and country have known. Dr. Gwin was one of our first Senators. He was in Washington from his election in 1849 to the admission of the State in 1850. Born a slaveholder, a participant in the exciting history of Jackson’s ad- ministrations, he pioneered here and put his hand to the foundations of California. From him Webster had the accurate description of the physical condi- tions of California from which his genius developed that generalization which has been proved in every detail. So, impinged upon history, this land emerged from | its past into statehood. Every step of the way is written in romance and every advance is bowered in | beauty and spread with abundance. When this became the first Pacific State it stood alone. Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas and Texas were the irontier. We were the isolated star on the flag. Now out of the vast region held by wild tribes, fortified by mountain and desert, which lay in solendid solitude between us and our sisters of the Union, and north are alone no more. The subject expands as we con- template it. How shall all of its suggestions find em- phasis in the golden wedding anniversary of our State? Let California invite her ten juniors here to an exposition of her developments. We have had a midwinter fair. Let us celebrate in 1900 with a mid- | since reduced these to a minimum in all well con- s e e b ] wreck was so sudden and so complete, there was | concerning the cause of it, no one will venture to summer exposition our semi-centennial as a State of this Union. Let us rebuild in Golden Gate Park the first mission consecrated on this soil and in architec- ture, productions and institutional progress illustrate cach step we have taken in fifty years. The world’s eye is turned again to the Pacific Coast and the world’s hand reaches across all latitude and longitude to grasp the newly found treasures of our north. In such a semi-centennial exposition all lands will find interest. The clemency of our summer climate, our cooling trade winds, our capacious cornucopia, filled with our rare products, and our lintels bright with blooming garlands will invite the world to enter a fairy land and rest with us in the midst of beauties and blandishments that the vale of Cashmere cannot rival. 4 Known as New Albion, in the far past mapped as the islands of California, fate has changed our flags and sovereignty and led on to a destiny up to the full measure of our natural endowment. Let us exploit it all and justify our pride in our inheritahce. /L\ it is believed, in the loss of many lives, has come down from Juneau—a terrible offset to the former tales brought from that region of golden fortunes found by lucky adventurers on the Klon- dike. Few details have been received, and the full extent and nature of the disaster are not accurately known. Some residents of Seward City saw on the evening of February 5 a small steamer trying to make her way against a storm wind that was blowing head on against her, far out in the channel. While they watched the vessel broke out into flames. Human aid was impossible. In the gale and the rough sea the ill- fated ship went down, and as far as is known none of her crew or passengers survived, The wrecked steamer is believed to have been the Clara Nevada, which leit Skaguay for Juneau and Seattle on February 5 and has not since been heard from. Fragments of wreck which strew the beach along the coast where the disaster occurred are said to be freshly painted, as the woodwork of the Clara Nevada was known to be. From these facts the con- clusion is drawn that the wrecked ship was no other than that steamer, and there seems to be little or no hope that any person on board has lived to tell the story of the disaster or explain how it occurred. Danger always encompasses those who go down to the sea in ships, but human skill and care have long A FEARFUL DISASTER. FEARFUL story of disaster at sea, resulting, ducted lines of ocean navigation. The dangers still exist, however, in cases where the ships are ill 4 diers.” gnauaas&ssuuaufinsg A TREASONABLE JOKE. § BRRARRNRERRRRRRRRR N a speech to a body of recruits who took the oath of allegiance last autumn the German Emperor said that “only good Christians could be good sol- This remarkable statement was much canvassed and criticized in Ger- many :nd elsewhere, and the Kladdera- datsch, the German Punch, published a pacity of summus episcopus and lord war, and that it would be a reductio absurdum of his words to apply them general sense. It was pointed out on the defendant’s side that reductio ad ab- surium is the raison d’etre of a comic papey and that the form taken on the preseit occasion was not insulting to his Majesy, but was within the limits of legitimite ridicule. Gustav Freytag had said that a monarch gained in popularity when humor and wit occupied themselves with his person. For the same reason Prince Bisnarck once regretted that court jesters no ‘onger existed. Formerly the Kladderadatich was a great favorite at “FROM THE CAMP OF THE HEAVENLY HOST.” The Cartoon for the Publioation of Which the Editor of the Kladderadatsch Has Been Sent to Prison for Two Months by Kaiser William. equipped, ill manned or ill fitted for stormy voyages, and there is a fearful probability.| that many vessels hastily prepared to reap for their owners the profits of the rush to Alaska may | be of the unworthy class. The story of the wreck off Seward comes as a warning to those who are about to undertake that voyage, and will impress upon all | the importance of exercising great care in the selec- | tion of a vessel on which they are to embark in their | search for fortune. While no information is forthcoming on which to base any charge of carelessness on the part of the | owners or the officers of the ill-fated ship whose | clearly something wrong somewhere. In the face of the disaster and in the absence of definite information impute blame to any particular person. The only eral one of warning to all who are going north to be- ware of ships hastily fitted out. may show clearly where the blame of the disaster rests, but in the meantime Government officials testing every vital portion of a ship destined for theK Alaskan trade. It is pretty well known that many | riedly fitted out at Seattle and other northern ports for the rush to the gold fields, and parties taking pas- care and caution. REFORM IN SAN JOSE. | is being fought with a vigor of action and & strategic skill that augur well for success at leaders in the contest are not relying for victory solely upon popular enthusiasm or public sentiment. the means for enthusiasm and sentiment to translate themselves into action during the campaign and on It is only by such means that any lasting success can be accomplished for good government either in form never have permanent effects, and not infre- quently do more harm than good. Old John Adams Men who are not willing to pay that price and keep a ceaseless watch upon government will become vic- find themselves ruled by some ignoble little Caesar in the form of a “municipal boss.” their new charter they indulged the fond belief that all would be well thereafter whether they con- trusting to this delusive phantom of hope, instead of organizing for an unceasing campaign for good gov- has placed the boss in control of the city, with its extension, its new charter and everything else. by the warning of the big metropolis. Having adopted a new charter they have determined to have The New Charter Club did not adjourn on the day after the charter was adopted. On the contrary, it ship, maintained its resolution to provide good gov- ernment by the election of good men to office, and confidence of victory. As a rule The Call does not favor non-partisan infrequently are organized mainly by soreheads, who have been disappointed in what they expected of no other way for the people of San Jose to achieve the overthrow of the bosses. It has been long since Coun.ty. The bosses and the push and pull of both machines have stood together for the spoils, and the powerless. Under such circumstances non-partisan- ship is a necessity. It is the only way to victory, nioral that can be drawn from the tragedy is the gen- Fuller information which will be received later on | should exercise the greatest care and scrutiny in unseaworthy vessels of all classes have been hur- | sage in ships from those places must exercise extra HE battle for good government in San Jose the polls. The promoters of the movement and the They have organized their forces and made ready election day. that or any other city. Sporadic outbursts for re- was right. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. tims of some kind of tyranny sooner or later and When the good citizens of New York had obtained tinued to act together or not. The consequence of ernment, was a victory for Tammany last fall which The San Joseans have been wise enough to profit it administered by its friends, and not by its foes. perfected its organization, augmented its member- now faces the sprifig election with a well-assured movements. They are generally ineffective, and not their parties. In this instance, however, there seems there was any genuine party politics in Santa Clara people, so long as they remained divided, have been and fortunately it promises to be a sure way, cartoon in which Satan was depicted as fetching from heaven Leonidas, Alexan- der, Napoleon and Frederick the Great, and reminding them that they had no place there. This joke brought a prose- cution for lese-majeste down upon the head of the unfortunate editor of the Kladderadatsch, and on Tuesday last he was duly convicted and sentenced to two months’ imprisonment in a fortress. The prosecution laboriously pointed out that | his Majesty was speaking to the adher- ents of the Evangelical church in his dual court. Frederick Willlam IV was so fond of it that for a long time he was thought to be a contributor. There was too much zeal in the matter of trials for lese- majeste. His Majesty liked to speak diréct to the people, so he must be pre- pared to hear an answer from the people. Much worse than open language was criticism in private, and it would not be a good thing to restrict the jester's old rights. This reasonable view, however, found no favor with the court, and Herr Trojan, the editor, was consequently haled off to jail. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. The trials of crufser Diadem of 11,000 tons are being watched with great inter- est by navy people. She is one of a class of seven vessels building for the British navy and the interest centers in the out- | come of the trials of the improved Belle- ville boilers with which she is fitted and which differ somewhat in the number and size of tubes from those of the Powerful and Terrible. The ship underwent her thirty hours’ coal consumption trial un- der one-fifth power on January 21 and 22, during which she averaged 3315 horse- power, pounds of coal. The boilers, thirty in number, have 40,550 square feet of heating surface and 1460 square feet of grate, and the steam carried was 265 pounds, against 175 pounds as the maximum carried in cy- lindrical boilers. The other vessels of the same class and type are fitted with Scotch boilers. The full power and natural- draught trials of the Diadem were to be proceeded with at once. A local naval reserve is being projected at Hongkong. There will, however, be some difficulty in securing fighting ma- terial, but it is proposed to obtain Chi- nese as firemen, their wages ranging per month frem $14 with food to §18 without food. There are about 1200 Chinese em- ployed by British shipping on the coast of China, and they are credited with being excellent in that line. English service journals express sur- prise that the United States. should build a 16-inch gun weighing 126 tons, and point to the fact that such monster pieces have been discarded in Europe. The American gun is intended for coast defense and is being made, probably, more to show: that our gunmakers can produce heavier guns than Europe. It wiil be forty-nine feet long, and with a charge of 1000 pounds of powder will fire a 2000-pound projectile, and each round fired will cost about $2000. The eight 16-inch guns in the British navy, weighing 106 tons, are to be re- placed in the near future with 12-inch guns, which weigh only forty-five tons and cost only about §2i0 to fire. The 10- inch gun is, as a matter of fact, preferred to any other, and in the German navy the caliber is as low as 9.4 inches. In the American navy the battle-ships now bullding are intended to carry I13-inch guns, which® will be the largest caliber afloat of modern ordnance. The engines of the Petropolawsk, Rus-. sian battle-ship, have been accepted, al though they fell short 533 of the contract horse-power of 10,600. The full-power trial was the severest yet exacted in any navy, as it extended over twelve consecutive hours and worked right through without a hitch and gave a speed of nearly 18 knots. The Petropolawsk is of 10,960 tons, with a 15.8-inch armor belt, 3%-inch pro- tective deck and carries four 12-inch guns in two 10-inch casemates and twelve 6- inch quick-firing guns, eight of which are‘in small turrets and four on the main deck inf 8-inch casemates. The ship has also six torpedo tubes. Brazil has transferred {ts contracts in England and France for two armored vessels and three crulsers to a foreign government, presumably Japan. The low 1274 knots and consumed 2.8 | state of Brazilian finances is assigned asl a reason for abandoning for the present the projected navy increase. The Hali-chi, a cruiser of 4300 tons, built for China, was launched from the yard of the Armstrong Company, Elswick, Janu- ary 24. She is 3% feet in length, 47 feet beam and is guaranteed to make a speed of 24 knots. WEATHER PROGNOSTICATIONS. To the Editor of The Call: As all are vitally interested in the crop prospects I trust you will give place to the follow- ing, deducted from Herschell’s, which several years’ careful observation has shown to be substantially correct, as ap- plled to this coast: February 20, showers; February 28, cold showers. March, doubtful. 5 April 8, heavy showers; April 13, heavy showers, with wind. 12, rain; May 20, rain. June 4, showers. ‘Beveral “‘dates” already r.t were ex- actly fulfilled. ‘W. B. MILLER. San Jose, Cal., Feb. 14, 1888, COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS Judge George B. Graham of Fresno is a guest at the Grand. Baron de Barral, a wine man of France, is registered at the Palace. T. H. Benard, & wealthy lumberm: Chico, is a guest at the Grand. Virgil Conn, a capitalist of Oregon, is one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Palace, L. D. McArdle, a prominent politician of Portland, Or., is registered at the Oc- cldental. A. Holloway, a mining man of Deer Lodge, Mont., is at the Occidental with his wife. ‘W. H. Barry, a wealthy Chicago mer- chant, is at the Occidental on a business trip to the coast. C. W. McArthur, one of Denver's big bankers and leading business men, is a Bgwest at the Palace. W. M. Welsh of the Stockton Flour- mills is in e city on a business trip. and can be found at the Lick. The first of the, Raymond excursions arrived yesterday from Philadelphia. The travelers went to the Palace. an of 0O0o00OOOOOO o o o THE [} © DOCTORED o : VALENTINE. © o 0000000000 jon, Harry ., on Saturday last in a state of great ex- citement and in rapid accents said to hi; ‘‘Say, old man, my firm has ordered me to catch the 4 o'clock train for Sacramento, and I want you to do something for me. You know Monday is St. Valentine's day, and I would like to send a valentine to a young lady whom I had the extreme pleasure of meeting lately. She's a peach, my boy, and when I was coming down the street just now wondering what I would send to this female divinity. I saw a val- entine in a show window that just fits her case exactly; it is the most appropri- ate thing you ever saw in your life, so I bought it. Say, you ought to see my latest conquest. I took her to dinner last evening and I must confess that she is a most extraordinary eater, for my bill was an even $12, but that doesn’t count with me, and she is a top-notcher just the same. Isn't that a lovely valentine? Now, as I have to get that train, I want you to send it to her for me. Her name is Rose G., and her address 324 M. street, Just look at the pretty verse inscribed on it,” and voluble Charles read as follows; A_dainty, delicate creature is Rose; In her I've met my fate. The hue of her bonny dimpled cheek Is roseate. “Good-bye, old boy, see that she gets it, will you?” and with that he disappeared to catch his train. Now Charley did not know that when he mentioned the young lady’s name he had awakened an unpleasant recollection in Harry's heart, for Rose had cruelly jilted the latter some six months previous and he still suffered from the effects of the operation. He determined to carry out a little scheme of revenge and at the same time play even with the fickle Rose, and he did so, for when she received the valentine early on Monday morning the following lines had been added by the deft hand of the aforesaid Harry, and the feelings of the young lady can be better imagined than described when she read in addition to the other verse: 1 took her to a restaurant once, Her appetite was great. It took me twelve to settle for ‘What Rosle ate. Charley will be looking for another girl, for when he returns from his trip, it is sald, the frigid reception he will receive from Rose would compare favorably with the extreme cold experienced in Klondike. Dr. James H. Low, a leading physiclan of Knights Ferry, is at the Grand on a visit of a few days’ duration to the aty. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Press are two prominent society people of Chicago who are at the Occidental on a tour of the coast. Baron L..von Meyer of Dresden, togeth- Charley X., the popular traveling salesman for a down town liquor house, rushed in- to the office of his boon compan- er with Madame S. Ritter, his sister, and Y. B. Seattle of London, arrived in the city last evening on the overland from New York and went to the Palace. H. C. Bell of Oroville, the newly ap- pointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the Sacramento district, is in the city. He is the guest of his old-time bosom friend, Major Frank McLaughlin. With the lat- ter he is enjoying a good time before set- tling down to business. Hugh Craig, president of the Chamber of Commerce, left this city yesterday afternoon on his way to London. It 18 Mr. Craig’s intention to make short stops at Chicago and New York both going and returning to the city of smoke and fog. He will be absent about two months. Attorney-General W. F. Fitzgerald, who has been confinea to his residence for the past two weeks, suffering from a severe cold contracted while in Washington, D. C., attending to the California murderers’ cases, is all right once more, and has re- turned to his accustomed desk in the Parrott building. The other even- ing a fight was in progress in front of the Baldwin Hotel, in which one of the con- testants was get- ting much the worst of it, but being egged on by a‘number of bystand- ers, was gamely staying and having the face beaten off him. Suddenly a very small but determined fellow put in an appearance and announced that the fun must stop right there. ‘““What the devil have you to do with it?" asked some one in the crowd. “Never mind what I have to do with it. You fellows don't know who I am, or you would skin out of here mighty quick. Now, the whole lot of you get a move on and slide.” The crowd hesitated a moment, then began to move, and having once started, fairly ran over one another in their haste to ~~t out of the vicinity. After the last had disap- peared, a gentleman who had been taking in the whole proceeding from one of tha windows of the hotel came outside and, approaching the small man, asked him Wwho he was and what authority he pos- sessed that had the power to break up 80 hard a crowd in so short a time. I am a commercial traveler,” replied the peacemaker, “and the power consisted in a great big bluff, which I attempted bfdcsause I thought the scrap was too one- sided. 000O0OOOOO0CO A SUCCESSFUL BLUFF. 000000000 00000 o o o o o G o CALIFORNIANS IN WAS;L\'GTON. WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. — Senator ‘White left for Los Angeles this after- noon to remain three weeks. Colonel George A. Knight is at Willard’s Hotel. —_— Elijah Brown, the cobbler, was enamored of the muse, And all his time was given up to stanzas and to shoes. | He Scorned to live a tuneless life, ingloriously = _mute. And nightly laid his last aside to labor at his ute; For he had registered an oath that lyrical re- nown | should trumpet to the universe the worthy | © name of Brown. | And, though his own weak pinions failed to | - Yeach the heights of song, His genius hatched a brilliant scheme to help | " his oath along: | And all his little youngsters, as they numer- ously came, | He christenca atter poets m the pantheon of ame, | That thelr poetic prestige might impress them, and inspire A noble emulation to adopt the warbling lyre. | And Virgil Brown and Dante Brown and Tasso |~ Brown appeared, o And Milton Brown and Byron Brown and | " Shakespeare Brown were reared. | Longfellow, Brown and Schiller Brown arrived 1 At man's estate, | And Wordsworth Brown and Goldsmith Brown filled up the family slate. And he belived his gifted boys, predestined to renown, In time would roll the bowlder from the burled name of Brown. But still the epic is unsung, that worthy name Is missing from the pedestals upon the hills of fame; For Dante Brown's a peddler in the vegetabls and still ne, | And Byron Brown is pitching for the Tuscarora i nine; | Longtellow Brown, the lightwelght, is a pugie | " list of note, | And Goldsmith' Brown's a deckhand on a Jers ] sey ferry-boat; | In Wordsworth Brown Manhattan has an ese | timable cop, | And Schiller Brown’s an artist in a Brooklyn | ° " barber-shop; A roving tar is Virgil Brown upon the bounds ing seas, And Tasso Brown is usually engaged in making cheese; | The cobbler’s bench s Milton Brown's, and | there he pegs away, And_Shakespeare Brown makes cocktalls in & Cripple Creek cafe.—Syracuse Courler. Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.® —_——————— information supplied dally to the ont- . Special business houses and public men b: Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 gomery street. 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