The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 14, 1898, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1898. The Call MONDAY. JOHN- D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. | | Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. } Market and Third Sts., S. F. | Telepho Main 1868. | EDITORIAL ROOMS.........- 27 to 22| Stevenson Street | Telephone Main 1874. | PUBLICATION OFFICE. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is | 5 served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns | for I5 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 66 cents. | THE WEEKLY CALL. ..One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND 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, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street, open until Q30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Misslon street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 | Misslon street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. e AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—* Mysterious Mr. Bugle.” Columbla—Primrose and West's Minstrela California—* Town Topics.” Alcazar—“The District Attornry.” Morosco's—The English Rose." Tivoli—“The Gelsha." Orpheum—Vaudeville. Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. | Auditorium, Mason and Ellis streets—Recitals of Scottish | Song and Story. Metropolitan Temple—Lecture on Phrenology. The Chutes—Chiquita and Vaudeville. California Jockey Club, Oakland—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. By T. McDonald—This day, March 14, Silks, etc., 8t 118 Grant avenne, at1la m. and 2 p. m. 1 By Frank W. Butterfield—This day, March 14, Carpets, at | 118-115 Tenth street, at 11 o'clock. | THE . GRAND JURY MUST ACT. EVELATIONS made by The Call concerning R the manner in which contracts for work on the new ferry depot have been manipulated, apparently with an intention to defraud the State, impose upon the Grand Jury the duty of an im- mediate and searching investigation. The scandal is grave. The Commissioners seem to have permitted jobbery to be carried to the extent of robbery, and | an official examination is imperative. As a rule the jobs seem to have been carried ont | in the simplest manner possible. Contracts would be let calling for work requiring a high grade of ma- | terial, and after having been let on that basis would | be afterward changed so as to allow the contractor to furnish a cheaper material, but draw the same pay | allowed for the better grade. Several instances of this kind of manipulation have been cited by The Call and evidence furnished | that the changes made were of a kind that defrauded the State. In a single one of these changes, that of the substitution of a different sort of flooring from | that for which the contract called, the profit obtained amounts to about $39,400. Another big item is found in the change made in the kind of stone used in the construction of the edifice. When the contract was to be let bids were made offering Colusa stone for $97,000 and Oregon stone for $100,000. The con- tract was awarded for Oregon stone. The building nevertheless has been constructed of Colusa stone, and a poor quality of stone at that, for some of it is chipped, some patched, and some of it badly tooled. Many other instances of a similar kind of work bearing every evidence of intentional crookedness have been pointed out by The Call with a definiteness of statement that cannot be mistaken. Examples of such jobs are found in so many departments of the work it can hardly be doubted that schemes of a like nature were put through to a greater or less extent in all. In fact it appears the construction of the building was a combination of secret jobs instead of a public work, and was carried on for the benefit | of anybody rather than the State and the people. | With the disclosures made by The Call as a basis | to go upon the Grand Jury ought not to be long in | bringing to light the true inwardness of all these | changes in contracts, and all these substitutions of | cheaper material for that called for when the contract | was let. Enough has been made known to cause suspicion amounting to moral conviction in the minds of impartial men that serious frauds have been practiced in the construction of the edifice from first to last, and with such a conviction in the public mind the duty of investigation cannot be ignored. We call upon the Grand Jury to turn its attention to this work at once. The facts are before them. | The State has apparently been defrauded of large sums of money and the members of the Grand Jury will be neglectful of duty, or worse, if they hesitate or delay in seeking out the whole truth and indicting any and all persons who may be found to have been guilty of fraud. There are people who like horse meat, but this is no excuse for disguising horse meat as beef and feeding it to the unsuspecting public. Such a course | is particularly unpleasant to contemplate when the fact is remembered that in this country a horse is | never killed while it has the. strength to stand up and bear the weight of a harness. Both the dead horse and the seller thereof should be sent to the garbage crematory. One is as detrimental to the happiness of life as the other. It is not strange that Belew refuses to give up money for the support of his children, preferring to devote it to the doubtful effort to save his own neck. A man who poisoned his brother and sister is not likely to have his affections stirred much by the needs of his little ones. In fact there is room for sus- picion that he has no notable amount of affection to stir. Rumors of what the Kaiser intends to do in case | of war between the United States and Spain lack im- portance for more than one reason. In the first place they are probably untrue, and in the second the af- fair will be carried on without particular reference to what the Kaiser may think about it. AR R R T The confession habit induced a Salinas man to proclaim that he had committed a burglary of which another man stood charged, but the jury went right ahead and convicted the accused. The one who con-~ fessed might justly construe this as a reflection upon his own veracity. e ‘When the Klondike fever grows so virulent that women become stowaways on north-bound vessels it is time that something be done to check the malady. — e O Kentucky’s resolution to christen a warship with water does not indicate a change of heart. Kentucky knows a better use for whisky. MARCH 14, 188 | T e = ‘tivcs, or Weylerites, concerning the situation in | ness in almost every line. FAVORING ANNEXATION. ONSIDERABLE interest has been excited in C the East by recent utterances of El Nacional, the Madrid organ of the extreme Conserva- Cuba and the probable outcome of the crisis. From such a source it was expected there would come nothing but a clamor for the subjugation of the Cubans and a vehement defiance of the United States. The unexpected, however, has happened. According to reports El Nacional declares that perhaps the best olution of the problem at present would be the annexation of the:island to the United States. The cause of this change of front may be due in some measure to a desire of the Weylerites to dis- credit the attempts of their political opponents to establish a system of autonomy in Cuba and by that means restore peace. Weyler having failed would not like his successor to succeed. The baffled gen- eral would be glad to have every one else baifled, since if the new ministry should have the good fortune to bring to an end a war where the Con- servatives met so many disasters they would be pretty well secure of power for many years to come. 2 Whatever may have been the cause of the adop- tion of a new and pacific policy on the part of the Conservatives, they have brought forth some very good arguments to sustain it. Their claim is that if Cuban independence is established, or even if a radical autonomy is granted to the island, the lives and property of the Spanish loyalists will be at the mercy of the triumphant Cubans, and that there would result wholesale confiscations and perhaps worse sufferings for the vanquished. To protect the | Spaniards in the island therefore, say the Weylerites, there must be a strong Government to stay the rage of the victors, and if Spain cannot rule, then the island should be annexed to the United States. This policy can be easily made to fit in with the scheme so often suggested that the United States should purchase Cuba, or secure its independence by indorsing its bonds and exercising a protectorate over it, until an indemnity to be agreed upon shall be paid to Spain. In either case the United States would have authority in Cuba and would to some extent be responsible for the security of the Spanish loyalists who remained there aiter the war closed. It seems from this the Spaniards are now con- vinced they cannot conquer the island and are fight- ing only to win some sort of favorable terms for their Cuban bondholders and the property of their adherents. This is significant of the end. It is quite sure Congress will never consent to buy Cuba from Spain, nor to guarantee an indemnity which the Cubans might offer to Spain for the recognition of their independence. There is just as little likelihood of annexation. At any rate if annexation is under- taken it will be by negotiations with the Cubans and not with the Spaniards. The change of tactics on the part of the Weylerites comes too late. The Spaniards in Cuba have sown the wind and must reap the whirlwind and bear the consequences as best they may. HE monotonous stability of trade heretofore CONDITIONS MORE UNSETTLED. | remarked, and which ruled without interrup- tion for some weeks, seems to be passing away and conditions are more unsettled. This is true of | the whole country, but applies more particularly to the Atlantic coast, where a falling off in the dis- tributive trade is reported. The center of commercial | activity has now chifted to the West, where business is reported brisk. The decrease in the East may be due to the war scare, as some authorities assert, or to the natural period of quiet after the satisfaction of the spring demand, or to several other causes, but its source has not yet been definitely defined. Its existence is exhibited, however, in the bank clearings, which, though still large and 38.8 per cent ahead of 1897, are still smaller than for several preceding weeks. Of the eighty cities and towns reporting clearings only two show a decrease—Hartford, 16 per cent, and Houston, 8.1 per cent—so it must not be inferred that trade is dull, for it is not. There is merely a decrease from the recent phenomenal activ- ity, which could not be expected to last forever. This easing off along the Atlantic coast is ap- parently general rather than individual. That is, while the aggregate volume of business is less, the great staples are individually reported in active move- ment, and at prices which are as firm as they have been. Possibly the recent realization in Wall street may be the cause for the decrease in the total, and from this point of view it probably is. In other words, the withdrawal of funds from speculation in national securities has shown itself in decreased bank clear- ings, while the merchandising of the country goes on as usual. This is apparently proven by the returns of the railroads, which are showing steadily increas- ing earnings, even while their shares are being thrown on Wall street for realization. This is a curious condition, and one which does not happen very often. Money is easy, more gold is coming in from Europe, and the demand for the general run of products is increasing. So, the more we look at the situation and the more closely we analyze it, the more apparent it becomes that if there is any real | falling off in the aggregate of trade it comes from timidity in Wall street and from nowhere else. In this connection a glance at the condition of | the leading staples may be interesting. Iron is active, and some branches of it feverishly so, owing to the preparations for war going on all over the country. Orders for railroad cars, farming tools and mining supplies are beyond all precedent. All the minor metals are also brisk, and generally at firm prices. The export of wheat and other breadstuffs is as large as ever, and at steady prices as a rule. Cotton has sold off a fraction, and the wool market is reported dull, owing to the war scare, and sales at the Atlantic | centers are smaller than for some time, with frequent cancellations of orders. This, in the face of advanc- ing foreign markets, is another incongruous condi- tion of trade at the moment. A summary of the business situation throughout the United States is rather confusing than otherwise. The East is quieter and unsettled, while the West is doing what is popularly known as a land-office busi- On the Pacific coast the north is active, while California is quieter. This is a purely local condition, due to the railroad war in the north which is diverting trade from this State, but which cannot last long, and may therefore be considered merely temporary. Local merchants report a falling off in the de- mand for most goods during the past few days, owing almost exclusively to this rate war in the north. The provision trade feels it more than any other line, as cured meats form the principal food of the Alaskan gold-seckers. There are other lines, how- ever, which are feeling it as well. Against this unfavorable feature we have a good market for all products of the farm, and a satisfactory demand for manufactured goods, so there is no real dullness in trade outside of the cured products, both animal and vegetable. Mutton and pork have eased off during Athe week, and dry hides have declined slightly. Sugar is lower and rice higher. Wheat is fairly steady, and $1 42 1-2 is still the pivotal figure of the market, which never gets very far away from, it. Barley goes up one day and down the next, but the advances are generally more than the depreciations, so, taking it week after week, the general tendency of the market is upward. Hay has again advanced and is stiff at the rise, with excellent prospects for still higher prices, unless the State gets 2 heavy fall of rain. As for farming prospects, they are fully as good as at any time during the past year. It is now pretty well settled that the interior central part of the State will have a short crop of cereals this year, and that the north will have a fine yield, with the south in doubt. Still, the situation is so delicate that two or three days of drying north winds or copious rains would change it right around. All this keeps the grain trade on the ragged edge of uncertainty and adds one more to the confused conditions which are dominating the markets of the country at the mo- ment. The fact remains, however, that we are doing a good business on the whole—much better, in fact, than for at least five years, and there is nothing in sight to warrant apprehension that it will show any serious decrease for some time to come. OUR MERCHANT MARINE. HE menace of war with Spain will lead to a T large extension of our naval power in the im- mediate future. That much is assured, for the nation now fully realizes the fact that our wars from whatever source they come will be fought out almost wholly upon the sea. We fieed a stronger navy than we have, and we will provide one. To man the new ships we will need experienced seamen. Where will we get them? Of the sailors who went down with the Maine a very large proportion were foreign born. The crews of all our men-of-war have an equally large share of seamen who are Americans by adoption only. Very different is the condition of affairs in the naval arma- ment of Great Britain. In his recent speech on the naval estimates in the Commons, Mr. Goschen said the British navy is in no lack of men to man its fleets, and moreover there are hosts of English sailors, or boys ambitious to be sailors, who were ready to enlist in the service at any time. Our country should be in the same situation. American warships should be manned by American seamen. England has a large reserve of skilled sailors to draw upon for service in the navy, because she main- tains a merchant marine which employs thousands of men and trains them to the work of steamship and sailing vessel. Her ships, supported by liberal sub- sidies, are to be found in every sea, and afford work and wages to men who otherwise would be com- peting for employment on land and either depriving some other man of work or else being themselves‘ members of the great army of the unemployed and destitute who throng the streets of the cities and the highways of the country. The United States should have a similar merchant marine in order that it may have similar advantages. The British merchant marine is a paying invest- ment. Every penny given in subsidies is returned with interest to the nation by the earnings which the ships bring in from the commerce of the world. It is estimated that the people of the United States pay out annually $300,000,000 to foreign ship owners for carrying our exports abroad. and the greater por- tion of this vast sum goes to Great Britain. It is a heavy tribufe to pay, and a wasteful one at that, for by following the British policy we could maintain a fleet of merchant steamers of our own, which would not only save the money for us, but add more to our wealth. At the present time the American ship is the only product ‘of American industry exposed to foreign competition which is not protected. In this respect it has been treated unfairly, and has a rightful claim upon the attention of Congress. As a means of relieving the country from the drain of money paid to foreign ship owners and as a step toward sup- plying trained seamen of American birth for the American navy our merchant marine should be sup- ported by favorable legislation at once. The country calls for it and Congress should see to it. SCIENCE @AND SILKWORMS. CIENCE, allied with mechanical ingenuity, if S all reports are true, has about destroyed the value of the silk worm. Just as modern in- genuity can make from the fats of slaughtered cattle a species of butter almost as good as the article churned from milk, so from the mulberry leaf has it devised a means of spinning silk thread direct with- out waiting for the slow action and patient toil of the silk worm. The new process is of British invention, and it is announced that tests of it have proven so success- ful that a large factory is in process of construction at Coventry, England, for the production of the artificial silk on a large scale, It is claimed the product will be not a mere imitation of silk, but something as much like genuine silk as oleomar- garine is like butter. All of its elements will be the outcome of vegetable fiber, and the only difference from the silk at present in use will be that these ele- ments will be converted into thread by mechanism instead of a living organism. The artificial process is similar to the natural one. The silk worm secretes a thick viscid solution by masticating certain leaves, and from the glutinous substance the worm spins its cocoon. Science pro- duces a similar substance by chemical treatment, and then mechanical skill comes in and completes the work. The mechanism employed is very delicate. The Philadelphia Record in describing it says: “This mother solution'is kept in a large, tightly closed steel tank, from which it is conveyed through pipes to the artificial silk worms. The latter consist of a number of fine tubes having innumerable taps, capped with glass tubes, each provided with a capil- lary bore not larger than the eye of the finest needle. Hydraulic pressure forces the fluid or jelly in a fine stream from each tiny nozzle. This stream, after rising to the height of about one inch from the tap, becomes a solid filament or silken thread, owing to evaporation. The filament is then caught by an at- tendant and wound upon a bobbin. A machine with a hundred nozzles, each spinning its thread, does the work of one hundred silk worms, and occupigs quite a small space.” That a large amount of capital has been invested in a factory to produce the artificial silk is fairly good evidence that the invention is of practicable value. Time and trial under all conditions alone can tell, however, whether the artificial new silk is to be as good in general use as that the silk worm spins. If it should be anywhere near as good there will be a new industry for the United States. Before long China and Japan may be importing silk from this country and the silk worm will have to hunt another job or be driven from the earth as a nuisance. T T L——— Perhaps the Spaniards would not have planted mines so freely had they realized what the harvest would be [-E=3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3=3=3c2=3=1+] k=3 k=3 § [NUIV!UUAE“UUGHTS. g b BY A MODEST CRITIC. 5 [+R=3-3:2-3-3-3-3-3-F-3-3=3=3-3=3=1v] Henry Ja:.ez, whose interesting mat- ter appears on Sundays, has been an- noyed, I understand, because he has been believed to be the writer of this column, which he decidedly is not. But he must have been twitted ™.. people who read little. Mr. James writes “with the strength of moderation,” but 1 confess my propensity for speaking of a llar as a liar. If any of the “gen- tlemen” who desire to “thump” Mr. James because of what has been writ- ten by me will devote an afternoon to my punishment I shall be delighted. The police will impart my address and so will the proper authority of this pa- per to those who can show cause. A correspondent who happens to dis- cern my individuality asks what I mean by saying that ‘“Hasta Manana” means that and that alone to a Span- iard. I have to reply that I mean ex- actly what I said. But in explanation this: My friend, J. B. Whitehead (a son of the torpedo maker), who is a most excellent linguist—speaking a half dozen languages fluently—brought the point cited to my attention ab- ruptly once. I was his guest at his rooms in St. John's College, Cambridge, some years ago, and we had been talk- ing language for hours, but tired. After some tea, accepting a cigar from him I said “thanks.”. Mr. Whitehead asked “How would you translate that into French or Spanish?” I thought for a moment and decided it wise not to try. “It's impossible,” he said, and so it is. It is as impossible as getting the “anima mia,” the *idolo mia” of the Itallan people Into the darling, sweet- heart and the other loving terms Anglo-Saxons use. We discussed the matter days after that and I have been impelled to the conclusion that not only is there no word in any other lan- guage that means exactly home, but that there Is no expression in any tongue which can be precisely uttered | in another. Mr. Whitehead has been | in the British diplomatic service for | more years than I have teeth but he | will recall the incident with as much pleasure as 1. He taught me some- thing and joyed in doing it. The statement that annexation is killed because the treaty lacks two or three votes is gratuitous. The resolution is to be heard from yet, and when it comes up it will not have a two-thirds hurdle to jump.—Chronicle. That is, for once, the truth, and when the resolution is heard from it will be found that the members of the House of Representatives will look the flagrant job over before they consent to impose Dole, his leprous crew and his debts on California. There will be a hurdle to jump which I am convinced will throw the nefarious schemers. The popular branch of Congress usually insists | very properly, on information in detall, and as it can be readily had with ref- erence to Hawali, the probabilities are | that it will be. When the members of | the House of Representatives see the | truth, I have every confidence in their | loyalty to the best interests of the country. The character of the present Hawailan Government is shown by the printed news that Dole’s locum tenens on the reassembling of what is called | the National Parliament substituted | something that suited his purpose bet- | ter than what Mr. President had writ- ten as a “message” for the instruction of the inhabitants of the islands. “Trouble,” we are told, is likely to oc- cur. When rogues fall out honest men may get their due, and it is devoutly to | be wished that these schemers may | quarrel with a sure intent. If they do, we shall probably learn more about] this attempt to foist these islands upon us than we now know. It is a “job,” of course, but who the traltors are is a matter that interests. There is such | a thing as punishment, and in this case it should be heavy. i I have, happily, incurred the atten- tlon of a Merced gentleman who as- sumes the right to judge modest criti- cism. From the advertising at the top of his letter paper I learn he is a dealer in multitudinous things, and from the signature at the bottom I judge him a Hebrew. According to his law and gospel I am several fools, a bunch of knaves and an llliterate. That cheers but does not inebriate. My sin Is that I chose to tell the truth about Zola's interference in the Dreyfus trouble as I see it. I am afraid that my Hebraic friend has been carried off his reasoning feet by that racial love which is so characteristic of and ad- mirable in the Jews. Passing by the personal abuse, I explain to my de- famer that the Dreyfus affair is a na- tional issue. The French nation has decided it. There are, doubtless, many who do not accept as wise the findings, but, as before stated here, no man can dictate to a people. Let us look at the matter which predominates in all our minds at this moment. We have with a unanimity which, pray God, may ever mark the nation, decided to place fifty millions of dollars in the President’s hands to be expended for defense as he sees fit. All do not agree the wisdom of the act, but those who do not are sensible and patriotic when they make no attempt to thwart what is clearly a national purpose. Zola has the sympathy of writers be- cause he is a writer; Dreyfus has the sympathy of the Jews because he is a Jew. Noneofus on this continent knows anything of the evidence adduced at Zola’s trial, nor at that of Dreyfus, for “foreign correspondence” is not relia- ble. So we will not judge, that is if we are sane. Nor must those who know as little as we. Mr. David Christie Murray, Mr. The- ron C. Crawford and otherswho assume to have discovered the right and the wrong of this issue would be entitled to more respect if they had never ut- tered a word about it. I can find some slight excuse for Hebrews who discuss the affair, though, for the general af- fection characteristic of their race is marked the world over. We Christians talk (very much talk) of loving our neighbors as ourselves, but we do not even love our kindred as the Jews love theirs. But to return to Zola: His po- sition in the world is anything but be- ing above criticism. His fame and money are both due to the writing of clever but very salacious stories. He has, truly, wonderful descriptive abil- ity, but only in that class of work. My right, which is that of any writer of ability, to criticize his motive in inter- ference in a matter that did not con- cern him—he has shown no exceptional love of the human race—cannot be his well known love of notoriety than anything else. The Examiner appears to think that the world is to be stuffed with any folly it may choose to perpetrate. It publishes what it calls a “copyrighted dispatch” from Berlin which begins: “The Spanish Embassador here com- plains bitterly that there are some half a dozen United States cruisers lying off the coast of Spain, practically block- ading all her ports.” That may be good news, but he who dreamed it knows as much about the relative geo- graphical positions of Bilbao and Bar- celona as he does of the color of the | gentleman who will open the gates of darkness to him later on. It would be cheering if we had cruisers enough in foreign waters to blockade at any rate one port. But we | have not. Yet we talk of empire! We want to annex Cuba, we have a craving for Hawaii! If the $50,000,000 in the President’s hands is not immediately urgently needed (and it is not likely to be) its expenditure in a sensible but celeritous way on our coast defenses and additions to the navy will not be out of place. Look at Great Britain. With no immediate menace | that is worth calling attention to, her annual appropriation for defense for this sin- gle year is five times greater than the amount of money which has been prop- erly voted in order to promote peace. A wiser step than this, by the way, has never been taken in our history. There are those who cavil at the Pres- | ident; he is spoken of as “a tool of | Mark Hanna” and maligned in various other ways, but in this crisis he has abundantly proven his right to hold the chief magistracy. He has shown an aversion to strife, which is a mark of courage rather than otherwise, for he who last cries fight is ever foremost in defense. Possibly no one will belleve what fol- lows who has not observed the folly of which the Bulletin is capable, but I aver that in its fatuous desire to fasten the Sandwich Islands on California it argues that as the commerce of the world is “moving East from Europe” and is in twenty years going to reach the land of lepers, we should proceed to take time by the forelock and have our leprosy a quarter of a century— more or less—before we get our com- merce. (The next “reason” for annexa- tlon will have a glass case and be placed on exhibition in Barnum & Bai- ley’s “Six big shows in one.”) Imbe- cility in the conduct of the little paper has existed for a long time I am aware, but if this last display be not supreme, I confess I have hts yet to see. The evening organ of the railroad is informed that Ananias when prefixed to Lewis must not appear in its col- umns. That expression was copyright- ed in 1898, and all rights are reserved. “Tom Pepper” might do. That gem was not kicked out of Cuba for telling lies, but a place slightly warmer man- aged to get rid of him on that account. These are three of the Examiner’s “findings” as to the loss of the Maine. They are republished here simply to show what an unconscious faker a yel- low journal can be: A hole was found just above the keel on the port side, where a torpedo or mine was started. Her bottom Is all gone. The powder magazines and shell rooms are intact. ‘Where the hole was, which was “blown off,”” how the magazines could | be intact when “her bottom is all| gone,” seeing that they are always as close to that part of the vessel as pos- sible, are things to guess at. But when a rascal has the audacity to say that | “this outline of some of the findings of | the Board of Inquiry is authentic,”” he overreaches himself. The members of | the Board of Inquiry are gentlemen— men of honor, none of whom would for any consideration divulge a single item of the proceedings before them, nor judge of what they have heard until the evidence is all in. Still the idiotic space-maker has “found” what it is impossible to find. By what means? I scarcely suppose the trickster will| again assert that “ a great journal has | methods of getting news which are not generally known.” The last time that morceau appeared it was followed in about a week by a compelled admission that the Examiner had bought from a poor clerk news which cost him his po- sition. Yellow journalism must under- stand that officers of the navy are built of sterner stuff than was that un- fortunate. And it must understand, too, that any slur on the general char- acter of members of that or any other | branch of the national defensive serv- | ice will not be permitted. COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS. R. M. Bulla of Los Angeles is a guest at the Grand. W. P. Giles, U. S. N., is registered at the Grand. J. B. Turner, U. 8. N, is a guest at the California. John Allen of Shanghai, China, is a guest at the Palace. ‘W. A. Farris, a mining expert of Den- ver, is at the Palace. R. G. Brown, a mining man of Bodle, is a guest at the Palace. J. C. Jones of Kansas City Is at the Occidental with his wife. Rev. and Mrs. J. G. Van Rijir of Vie- toria are at the Occlidental. i Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Moore of Chi- cago are guests at the Palace. State Senator C. M. Simpson is at the .Grand from his home in Pasadena. R. K. Colcord, ex-Governor of Nevada, is registered at the Grand from Carson City. W. A. Mackinder, a large wine grower of St. Helena, is one of the late arrivals at the California. Rev. W. F. Walker, a missionary who arrived on the China yesterday from Peking, is staying at the Occidental. ‘W. D. Smith, an employe of the Alaska Commercial Company, has returned from 5;71“0‘“‘“ and is at the Palace with his . OOOOOOOOO% : THE CAPTAIN o © SPOILED © © THE ROMANCE. © lish language fis o when the apostle of the new method runs up against Indian dialect he is liable to meet with disappointment as the fol- lowing story told by an old traveler in the California yesterday will serve to illustrate. “We were off the coast of Siberia and among the ship’s company was a young surgeon who had been spending all his spare time In studying a dic- tionary of the Esquimau language That the pho- netical way of spelling a_ word is the best way may be a fact as far as the Eng- the most complée wreck of a man T ever saw, in the pers@ of an old native, drift- ed aboard. He lcked one arm, one eye, one ear, besides numerous small bits of scalp, and his fice was seamed with scars until it looked like the corrugated bosom of Gettytbur g after Plckett's famous charge. Tte surgeon, wishing to" know how the fell'w had come by such terrible disfigurements, interviewed him, and found that the wounds had resulted from a desperate hard to hand encounter With a bear that he bad engaged in while endeavoring to protett a young girl from the fury of the raventus beast. We wera all struck with the remance of the tale | | ana the courage, unti the captain, who | had never studied the janguage from any | book but who had picked it up from long | association with the na:ives, t-fe along, and, after exchanging & few words with | our hero, turned around and informed us | that his wounds had been occasioned by £ a tumble over a cliff he had taken while in a state of alcoholic ecsiasy.” Mrs. McClaren, nee Ash, returned on the China from Honolulu, where she has been visiting her brother-in-law, Minister Sewell. D. Carton Lee and wite, two well- known residents of the British capital, arrived on the China yesterday and went to the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Bosworth, accom- | panied by Chhrles H. Wilson of Troy, N. | | Y., are registered at the Occidental on & pleasure trip to the coast. Philip H. Powers of Kobe, Japan, B. Goldschmidt and wife of Honolulu and George W. Fisher of Honolulu are among those who arrived yesterday on the China and went to the Occidental. Dr. 1. Fijioka is a distinguished Jap- © anese physician who arrived from the £ Orient yesterday on a tour of the United States and who will possibly visit Europe before returning home. - He is registered at the Occidental. G. F. Fraser, E. Lunn and F. H. Lowe, three round-the-world bicyclists, arrived in the city yesterday on the China from the Orient. They will stay in the city but a few days, going almost immediately. East on the continuation of their journey. M. Shirashi, S. Kuboto and Y. Arumasa are taree distinguished Japanese gentle- men who arrived on the China yesterday’ en route for Spain and England, where two of them go to attend a medical con- ference and the third to inspect three merchant vessels at present being built at Newcastle for Japanese firms. They are now at the Palace. THE COWBOYS ARE READY. Denver Post. We are not the holy terrors that the Easternm papers say, Never handle our six-shooters in a reckless sort of Wi Never_shoot sich thipgs as that, An’ never skeer a tenderfoot by shootin’ through his hat. ! But when there is in's to be done, ‘We never feel a nervousness "bout hitchin® t@ ay, the lights out in saloons, nor nq a cause fur fight an’ fights a gun, An’_so if Uncle Sammy wants to lick them Spanish curs We'll turn our hosses east'ard, an’ we'll hit ‘em with the spurs. Not for the fun of fightin’ would we hit the warlike trail, Not fur the fun of shootin’ an’ a raisin’ merry ail, . But ’cause we are Americans, an’ mighty good ones, % An’ love people do. An' so if Uncle Sammy staggers up against 00, ¥ the Glory flag as much as Eastern a muss % He'll never need to holler more'n once fur help from us, Then we'll saddle up o Union right or wrong! An’ hit the trail fur battle with & Jjolly cow= boy song. hosses, yell “Our Don’t be modest, Uncle Sammy, in & hittin® us, ol chap, It you find you are & needin’ reckless riders An' v find us ready with our bronchos' heads in air, An’ we'll hit the highest places in the land- scape gittin’ there. We will give them sassy Spaniards quite a touch of Western life, We will fight ‘em with the rifie or the pistol or the e, ‘We will bunch ’em up like cattle on the ranges ovt this way, An’ we'll rone ‘em an® we'll threw “em an® we'll brand U BRIGHT BITS OF PHILOSOPHY. Ram'’s Horn. Facing to-morrow’s trials your back on to-day’s duties. Discouraging a good man is the devil'a way of spiking his best gun. ‘Whatever comes from the heart hag voice that speaks to the heart. Some men make their intentions of be- | "‘fi better an excuse for not being So. | very good law is a public confession * that society is not as good as it should be. * ‘What a difference there is between :vhgt we are and what we want others 0 be. is turning SPEAKS TOO LATE. | Philadelphia Ledger. The German paper which warns its readers not to push the agrarian warfare against the United States, lest they stim- ulate the beet sugar industry in this country, is wise, but it speaks too late, The indications are that the production of beet sugar In America will be very: | largely developed during the coming sea~ son. AFRAID OF AN EARLY DEMISE. Minneapolis Journal. 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