The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 11, 1898, Page 20

20 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 11, 189S. his -d, :l:::' depart- men C y. except such expenses y this Charter to be paid out of the Funds specifically provided for the payment of such ex- penses, For the six months ending on the thirtieth day of June, in the year , each and every of nineteen hund %aid departments shall expend the moneys set apart to each of them by the Board of Supervisors of the existing municipality. So much of said moneys set apart by d Board of Supervisors to the Superintendent of Public Streets, Highways and Squares for the fiscal vear ending on said thirtieth day of e, in the year nineteen hundred, as all remain unexpended at the time s Charter takes effect, shall be ex- pended during said six months by the Board of Public Works in the opera- tions of the department committed to its charge. All the expenses of the City nd County which are not to be paid out f specific funds shall be paid during said six months out of the General Fund. Should the moneys set apart by the Board of Supervisors of the ex- sting municipality to any department i the City and County become or be exhausted iy time during said six months, « yuld any department cre- ated by this Charter have no money specifically provided for it during sald st ¢ months, then in each such case the shall be pald out of the General Fund, notwithstanding anythir ~ontained in sections six and seven of Ch er I of Article ITT of this Charter. Such pensions asmay accrueto firemen under Article of this Char- ter duri sald six s shall be pald f the General Fund. The existing pality mentioned in this section pality of the City of San Francisco, and the s which are to be trans- section provided are ng mun isting municipality. All ting municipality this section, and ed by law, shall be continued in the treasury until the ne- cessity or thelr continuance ceases. Sec. 3%. When the necessity for maintaining any Fund of the City and County time this in existence at the Charter takes effect has ceased to ex- ist, and a balance remains In_such 3 the Supervisors shall so declare | b dinance, and upon such declara- tion such balance shall be forthwith t ferred to the General Fund. - SCHEDULE. This Charter shall be published for twenty days in The San Francisco Call in Daily Report, daily news- of gc.eral c-ctlition in the| and County of San Francisco, and such put on Thurs- the twenty- of May, in vear one thousand eight hundred eight, it shall be submitted lified electo of said City unty n Francisco, at a spe- ction which shall be held on that day, for the sole purpose of voting upon the adoption of the same; and if a ma- jorit. the qualified electors of sald Cit id election . same it shall be sub- B gislature of the State of Califorria for its approval or rejec- tion. If the L la e shall approve the same, it shall take effect and be in force, except hereinafter otaerwise provided n and after the hour of noon on the t Monday after the first day of January in the year nineteen hun- dred, and shall thereupon become the Chart: and ¢ anic law of the City and County of San Francisco, and shall sede the existing Charter of said and County, and all amendments eof, and all laws inconsistent with this Charter. The form of ballots at sai: election shall be as follov FOR THE NEW CHARTER, YS. FOR THE NEW CHARTCR, NO. For the sole purposes of the election of the officers directed in this Charter to be elected by the pcople, this Char- ter shall take effect on and after its proval by the Legislature, and the lection of such efficer; shall be man- . conducted and controlled by the of Election Commissioners in and for said City and County in office at the time of such election. And for the sole other purpose of the ayor elected under this Charter mak- ing the appointments provided in this Charter to be made by hiii, and of the ication of the persons so ap- this Charter shall take effect irst day of December, in the ne thousand eight hundred and ine. v of San Francisco, contajning a tion of more than two hundred and i:ihabitants, on the twenty- seventh day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, and under and in ac- cordance with the provisions of Sec- tion 8, of Article XI, of the Constitu- tion of this State, did elect the under- signed a Board of Fifteen Freeholders, to prepare and propose a Charter for safd ( and County; and we, the members of said Board, in pursuance of such provisions of the Constitution, and within a period of ninety days after such election, have prepared and do propose the foregoing, signed in duplicate, as and for the Charter for F;lld City and County of San Fran- cisco. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands in duplicate, this twenty-fifth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight. JOSEPH BRITTON. President. JEROME A. ANDERSON, JAMES BUTLER, H. N. CLEMENT, A. COMTE, Jr., ALFRED CRIDGE. L. R. ELLERT, ISIDOR GUTTE, P. H. McCARTY, JOHN NIGHTINGALE, Jr., JOHN C. NOBMANN, JOSEPH O'CONNOR, LIPPMANN SACHS, EDWARD R. TAYLOx. A. W. THOMPSON. Attest: J. RICH'D FREUD, Secretary. THE NAVAL MILITIA. During the past week there has been a great deal of activity in_the naval militia, not only at this port but all along thé | part of the student of political diplo- coast. The divisions are being recruited | plooy up to the maximum, which is 104 rank | MaCY. ” and file. Under instructions from Lieu- ., Lhere is mot the least doubt,” said tenant-Commander Nerney, acting ca John P. Jackson yesterday, that tain during the tem; yabsence of Cap- the next United States Senator will be tain Turner, in the matter of enlistment a man from the southern half of the the nrl“‘fvr(-;wi' is s;l\l')f‘n to mw{ “1 ‘; hfll\'e State. At the time Senator Perkins was some knowledge o he s . As it is, the i v a recruiting has been quite dctive, and the | Sicoied. It Was agreed among the party acting captain is confides t that in a very short time a full complement of men can be secured. He also feels confident that the militia will be called upon to go on b Al?‘] of the Monterey and the Monad-| nock. In the event of war an effort will be made to secure some‘of the fast tugs to be used for the-purpose of chasing and capturing privateers which the Spanisn Government proposes to turn loose upon the high seas to prey on American mer- chantmen. If such as the Fearléss and the Vigilant can be secured for that pur- pose it is the hope of the officers of the militia that some of their men will be se- lected for service on board. The men at this port are being drilled with a view to make them thoroughly familiar with their duties on board ship, sc that in case of need they will not have to go through a second course of instruc- tion. The officers are perfecting themselves In navigation, and the progress that they have made in the past two months is very satisfactory to their instructor. —_———— It is computed that there are enough paupers in Great Britain to form, four abreast, a procession over 100 miles in length. ——— . To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All drug- if it fails to cure. Q. pn each tablet., refund the mone; 25¢. ‘Senuing has L. B. KNOWN, That the City and | A SENATORIAL | ~ TOGA AT STAKE. CINDIDATES SEEKING FOR AN ADVANTAGE: Editor Otis as a Fac- tor in the Coming Campaign. Indorsed by Perkins in Order to Promote Bul- la’s Interests. |A Letter From Washington That Is the First Move in a | Very Pretty Contest. | 1 !HENRY GAGE THE VICTIM. Southern Interior Press Scores the Los Angeles Editor ior Alleged Acts of Treason. | | | | From Los Angeles comes the an- nouncement that Senator Perkins has | written a letter to Colonel Otis of the | Los Angeles Times in which the writer | avers that his correspondent (Colonel | Otis) is the man the people of the State | of California want as successor to Sen- ator White. This announcement throws a bright light on the very interesting state of | affairs resulting from R. N. Bulla’s re- | cent declaration of a desire to wear the Senatorial toga. It is the first card in a very pretty political game that will | be watched with interest by every poli- tician in the State, because upon its outcome depends the success or failure | of the aspirations of the men who are | seeking the position of United States Senator. Not the least Interesting fea- | ture of the play is the fact that Editor | Otis is to be made, unconsciously enough so far as he is concerned, the object of the shafts of political strat- egy. . It is a matter of common knowledee | that Senator Perkins is the stanch per- sonal and political friend of Bulla. | It was State Senator Bulla who nom- inated Perkins before the Legislature | | three years ago, and it was Bulla who | was largely instrumental in bringing | about the compromise with the south- ern members whose votes were neces- sary to Perkins’ election. By this com- promise it was agreed that the Republi- cans south of the Tehachapi line should be accorded the privilege of naming the next United States Senator. Editor Otis was, somewhat reluctantly, made a party to this agreement. There has not been and is not now a desire on the part of the party leaders to go back on the terms of this agreement made three vears ago, therefore the northern Re- publicans are content to remain in the background and watch with some de- gree of complacency the struggle that has begun on the other side of the line. The time has now arrived when the man who is to be the next United States | Senator must come forward and an- | nounce his intentions and make his bid for the support of that section of the | State that has been accorded the right of selecting the favored -candidate. | Colonel Otis, acting ir, the capacity of a molder of publi¢ opinion, as well as | | steerer-in-chief for the Republican | party, has recently, through the col- | umns of the Times, strongly intimated that Henry Gage of Los Angeles is the | man whose name should be presented to the next Leglislature as the selection of southern Republicans for Senatorial honors. About the same time Bulla | paid a visit to San Francisco, and after a consultation with his friends an- nounced himself as a candidate for the | honor of being elected Senator at the | next session of the Legislature. It is generally understood and not denied that Bulla’s candidacy, so far as this end of the State is concerned, has | been placed in the hands of John P. | Jackson and Billy Hamilton. Bulla's candidacy having been announced, it became at once a matter of grave con- cern how to deprive so formidable an | opponent as Gage of the advantage de- | rived from the support of Colonel Otis | and the Times. The letter said to have | been written by Senator Perkins to | Colonel Otis may give some insight | into the matter. Of course if Colonel | Otis could be induced to himself be- | come a candidate for Senatorial hon- ors he would withdraw his support of Gage. ‘Without the support of the | Times Gage would no longer be for- midable. These things being accom- plished Bulla would find himself in the fleld with no more dangerous an op- ponent than U. S. Grant, it being safe to assume that Gage and Otis could neither of them win the allegiance of | more than a small minority of the southern delegation. It is a very pretty game and one that | will repay the closest attention on the | leaders that the south should be al- lowed to select the next man to be voted on for Senator, provided the northern Republicans were allowed to nominate the candidate for Governor. There has not been, so far as I know, any effort made to bring about a revo- cation of this agreement. “I am aware that Bulla has an- nounced his desire to be the man se- lected to succeed Senator White, but you must excuse me from making any statement: as to what part, if any, 1 shall take in his candidacy. I am his friend, but I am also the friend of other gentlemen who may aspire to the same honorable position. Senator Perkins is also Bulla’s friend. I don't know whether or not he has written a letter to Colonel Otis, but if he has I have | sufficient confidence in the wisdom of the Senator to belleve that he knows | what he is doing. He is 2 man who has | never yet made a mistake.” The attitude assumed by the Los Angeles Times regarding the present political situation has‘had the effect of bringing down unon the head of Col- onel Otis the censure of the editors of interior papers, who accuse him of try- ing to bring about the election of Dem- ocaatlc successors to Senator White an | fessor J. H. Dohrmann, organ selection: ing from the Pasadena News will serve as an illustration of the castigation to which he is being subjected: Colonel Otis has for years been an open antagonist of the Southern Pacific rail- road influence in politics. Yet In 1896 the Southern Pacific rallroad ring had in Colonel Otis a stanch political ally. With every man in the Southern Paci- fic Railroad employ openly fighting for Charles A. Barlow's success at the polls; with certain of its men taken down from their engines and turned loose with money in their pockets to spend for Barlo with Stephen M. White advocating Ba low from every stump in the_district; with a combination made up of J. Marion Brooks, Nathan Cole, Thomas V. Cator, George W. gaker, J. Noonan Phillips and Sutherland Hutton taking orders from Huntington's hirelings and going up and down the Sixth District shouting for Bar- low. the Los Angeles Times said not one word editorially for the candidate of the Republican party, whose vote might have saved the credit of the administration. SPOILING FOR A FIGHT. Jacob Heinz and Edward J. Ford Spent Their Easte- Sunday id’ Prison. Jacob Helnz and Edward J. Ford, two voung men, went into the store of F. K. Welss, florist, 9 Eddy street, yvesterday morning. They were under the influence of liquor and objected to the price of the flowers they had asked for. They made themselves so offensive that Weiss requested his neighbor, B. Phillips, a tailor, to go for the police. Phillips started out on his mission and Heinz and Ford followed him. At the corner of Powell and Eddy Ford attacked Phillips and a crowd gathered. Police- man Fennell came upon the scene and placed Ford under arrest for battery upon Phillips. Heinz interfered with the officer and attempted to drag Ford away from him. Fennell drew his club and hit Heinz over the head with it. A citi- zen remonstrated with Fennell, and dur- ing the discussion Ford threw Fennell down the steps of the Louvre and ran along Powell street. Scveral citizens started in pursuit, and he was captured after running a couple of biocks. Fen- nell put the handcuffs on him and also took Heinz in charge. At the City Prison two charges of battery were booked against Ford, the complaining witnesses being Tailor Phillips and M. J. Gannan, who went to Phlllips’ assistance. Heinz as charged with battery and disturbing the peace. ——— BURGLARS IN A SALOON. Ed Gorman, of the Argonaut, Loses His Money and Goods. The Argonaut saloon on Mission and Twelfth streets was entered by burg- lars early Sunday morning and a lot of articles were stolen. When the proprie- tor, Ed Gorman, entered the saloon yes- terday morning he thought everything of value had disappeared. He at once noti- fied the police headquarters, and Detec- tives Fitzgerald and Graham of the Mis- sion district were detailed on the case. Gorman locked up the saloon shortly before midnight Saturday night, and a féw minutes later the policeman on the beat saw the saloon lighted up, but he thought Gorman was still there. had taken the trouble to make an inves- tigation he would have found the burg- lars at their work. Gorman places his loss at between $40 and $45 cash, and several bottles of liquor and boxes of cigars. Entrance was ap- parently effected by-means of a skeleton , and it is thought the burglars are residents of the nelghborhood. —_————— ST. PATRICK'S BAZAAR. An Entertainment for Its Aid to Be Held Tucsday. St. Patrick’s Church is to have a bazaar early in next September and the mem- bers of the church are already preparing for it. A musical and literary entertain- ment in aid of the bazaar has been ar- ranged for Tuesday evening, April 12, and this will be given at Metropolitan Hall. An_elaborate programme has been de- | cided upon which cannot fail to please all who attend the entertainment. Among the attractions on the programme are: An address by Rev. James McDonald of St. Peter’s Church, the Police Choral So- ciety, Josh Dav Dr. W. William Massett, George W. Calvert, Pro- M. Grennan, cornet; Messrs. S. J. and L. Tully, clarionets; Mrs. P. W. McGlade, soprano; Mme. Bunice Westwater, con- tralto; W. W. Finney, tenor; J. P. Groe: jens, 'barytone; Jackson A. vocal selections: C. C. Whelan, descriptve songs; Miss Clara Nolan, accompanist. _——— ‘When dead bodies are entered ag a car- g0 on a sbip, they are often recorded on | Stevens and J. Jones. the invoices as “statuary,” or “natural history specimens,” to allay the supersti- tious fears of the crew. If ne | Sieberst, | Hathwell, | Lynde & Hough Company. Captain Stensland reports that on February 11 in Eagle Harbor, three seamen were | | Three Men Drowned Off| BOUND FOR The stern-wheel steamer to be used by the passengers Jane A. Falkenberg is to be taken to Kotzebue Sound in a novel manner. KOTZEBUE. on the barkentine A plank will be taken out of the bottom and the rigging of the foremast will be unrove and passed through the hole and stern-wheeler will project about five feet over the barkentine’s side, and The steamer’'s boilers will rest of her will rest on the deck. then made fast again. The hull of the the be placed at the port side of the vessel, and both steamer and boilers will be securely lashed. The boat is to be called ‘‘Kotzebue,” and is 47 feet long, 15 feet broad and 4 feet deep. She will carry fifty passengers and fifty tons of freight on an 18-inch draft at a speed of 9 knots an hour. THER FATE AN ICY TOY Alaskan Shores by a Boat Capsizing. The New Steamer Sequoia Coming Here in Tow of the Tug Vigilant. First Vessel Purchased by Ladue for the Klondike Trade Arrives—A Runaway Horse. This time it is the schooner Arago that has come back to port with bad news. Three of her crew are missing. The schooner reached here yesterday, twenty days from Sand Point, Alaska, with a cargo of 30,00 codfish for the drowned by the capsizing of a small boat. Their names were Peter Jensen, Olan J. S. Kimball's new steamer, the Sequofa, left Fort Bragg yesterday morn- ing for this port, in tow of Spreckels’ tug Vigilant. The steamer was launched at midnight Saturday, and is said to be the first vessel ever launched at Fort Bragg. Here she will be fitted out with bollers and machinery, probably at the Fulton Iron Works. Her length is about 150 feet. The steamer Morgan City, the first steamer purchased for the Klondike trade by the Ladue Gold Mining and Develop- ment Company, arrived here yesterday, sixty-four days from New York. A short stay was made at Valparaiso and four steerage passengers were brought up from there. On the 16th inst. the steamer will make her first trip to. Alaskan ports. The vessel is 281 feet long, 38 beam and has a 20-foot depth of hold. Several changes in- cident to what will be required of her on her future run have been made in what one of those who came out on her calls “a most bungling manner.” In fact, the steamer conveys a general appearance of awkwardness even to the eye of a novice. Some careless driver left a mall wagon standing in the alleyway between the new ferry bullding and gthe postoffice building Kes!erday morning, without hitching the horse. The animal took fright and started to run away, tearing the woodwork at the corner of the post- | office. If this had not delayed its progress until strong hands could grasp the reins, several people might have been serlously injured or killed, as the pathway of the horse lay right across the entrance to the Oakland ferry. Two boatloads of the Naval Battallon from the training ship Marion, compris- ing about fifty men, held a drill in the stream off Folsom-street wharf yester- day. Ensigns Harlowe and Morrison were in charge. —_——————— Hit With a Bottle. Frank Travis, a colored sailor, got into a barroom altercation on Pacific street vesterday afternoon with a man named Silva. The result of the row was that Silva struck Travis on the head with a bottle inflicting a deep gash on the left temple. Officer Cavanagh came upon the scene and sent Travis to the Ferry Re- ceiving Hospital for treatment and locked Silva up in the California street station on the charge of an assault with a deadly. weapon, QUEEN OF SONG AND MASTER OF MUSIC. Two World-Famous Artists Who for Three Nights Will Make the California Ring With Sweetest Melodu. Oresto Bimboni, who will direct the per- formances of Mme. Melba, has had a earcer this is rich in achievement, both in composition and in the direction of grand opera. He was born at Florence, Italy, Septem- ber 11, 1847, of a family of musiclans. His father was a bandmaster, a trumpet vir- | tuoso, and the inventor of the ‘‘Bimboni- fonla.” Every attention was given to the education of Oresto. He studied the piano under Dechamps, and harmony and coun- terpoint under Professor Mabellini, at the Conservatory of Florence. When he was 18 he enlisted as a soldier under the ban- ner of Garibaldi. After his return from the campaign he finished his studies at Berlin under Taubert. His career as a conductor began at Congressman Barlow. The follow-| Bastia, Corsica. He then went to Milan, MELBA AND SIGNOR ——000 0Q0000 e 3 From a Photograph by Falk. Where he was engaged for the Victoria Thenter‘ at Berlin, by the impresario Pollini, who is now in Hamburg. He then served in like capacity at the Imperial opera of Moscow. Few are the European cities in which he has not shown his power. Thus, he was conductor at the Vienna Imperial Opera House in 1883 and 1884; he has led in the opera houses of Barcelona, Lisbon, Bucharest, Venice, Naples, London, with companies of the highest grade, with such singers at Pattl, Gerster, Calve, etc. In connection with the announcement of the grand operatic performance in this city by Melba, Signor Giluseppe Campa- narl will sustain the role of Figaro, the :ls(l:hlel-mtkln( intermediary between osina and her lo Duke Almavi 1n"'the ‘Derformance of . ihe - Barber of - BONI. Seville.” Signor Giuseppe Campanari Is one of the foremost barytones upon the Italian stage of to-day. Born in Veneto he showed a disposition toward music at an early age. The cello was his favorite instrument, and he was for some time a member of the orchestra of La Scala, Milan. There he discovered that he had a voice, and after earnest study he appeared in opera houses of Italy and Spain. Melba will open at the California The- ater on Tuesday night, April 19, and will glve only three performances, at which the following prices will prevail: Boxes, $40; single seats, down stairs, $7 and $6; balcony, first three rows, $5. next four rows, $4, and last seven rows, $3; reserved seats in' the gallery will be 32, and §1 will NATIONAL ~ GUARDSMEN 1 An Important Change That Will Affect Line Officers. The State’s Guard Can Be Fully Equipped at Very Short Notice. Regulations for Target Practice to Be | Revised—The Signal Corpse i Celebration. | | One of the most important orders issued | of late Is the one establishing a new | | board of examiners for the Second Brig- ade. The old one was composed entirely of officers drawn from the retired list, and with possibly the exception of one they did not have the same interest in the affairs of the guard that have officers who are constantly in touch with the rank and file, and as a matter of course they could not view the guard In the same light and understand its conditions as well as those who are constantly with it. That was the view taken when the change was made, and it is in line with the policy qf the major-general, whose desire it is t0 place the guard on the best footing, war or no war. The new board will adopt more stringent ruies in the ex- amination of officers sent before it. It is probable that the examinations will not be, as in the past, confined to the the-| oretical, but will be extended to the prac-| tical. That 1s, it is likely a captaln or a | lieutenant will be called on to proceed to the regimental armory, where he will be | given a strange company, and will be re- quired to drill it in such movements as | the board may direct. without giving pre- vious notice of what movements he shall | be called upon to have executed. | In view of the fact that next July new tactics will probably go into effect, the new board will have considerable to do seeing that the officers are familiar with | the new movements. Colonel Smith,| First Infantry, president of the board, is a very active member of the guard, and he has able assistants in the persons of Major J. F. Hayes of the Fifth Infantry | and Captaln George Fillmer of Company | B, First Infantry. It is more than likely | there will be a marked improvement in ! the officers of the Second Brigade so far | as knowledge of duties is concerned, in| the future. | READY FOR ACTION. ‘When asked what was the condition of the Second Brigade of the National Guard | at this time, Brigadier-General R. HAi ‘Warfield, commanding that brigade, re- sponded “All present or accounted for and | ready to move on short notice.” | It is true that the guard is ready to move on short notice. All the property of the First Infantry has been overhauled and arms that were not in condition put | in the best possible condition, and there is not a rifle that is not at this time in a serviceable condition. It is true that, many of them are not of the very best for target practice, but all are in service- able condition, and the only things the guardsmen are short of are, as has been | previously stated in this tents, overcoats and blankets. As to these articles, there will be no difficulty in supplying them should the entire guard of the State be called into active service, for there is under the con- trol of the commissary branch of the de- | partment of California, U. S. A., enough | to equip 10,000 men, and there are more of the modern Springfield rifles at the Be- nicla arsenal than the 4000 and odd men | of the National Guard of this State would need. It is stated that a dispatch was | received by the higher authorities of the guard of Jlis State from Senator Stephen M. White, announcing that the War De- partment is ready at any time to make an exchange of arms so that the guard | of California may be armed with better | rifles than it now has. The general opimon of the officers of the guard is that in case of war being declared the regulars will be sent to the front and the National Guardsmen of the several States will be mustered in as vol- unteers and sent to guard the seacoast on the Atlantic and Pacific; that subse. quently the first contingent sent to Cuba, as a reserve, will be composed of colored men who are better adapted for the cli- mate of that country than/are white men. Whatever may happen the guardsmen of California are ready to go wherever ordered and wherever they can be of the greatest service, but they prefer being sent to the front to being placd on guard duty at some post on the seacoast. TO LEARN FIRST AID. The recent work of the sanitary corps of the Second Brigade under the direc- tlon of Major McCarthy, as exemplified by drill on the fleld, has so favorably im- ressed Colonel Smith of the First In- antry that he has decided every man in his regiment shall become familiar with the principles of first aid to the wounded. ‘ Each company of the regiment will be | instructed in that art for a period of | three months, so each may become thor- | oughly familiar with what is required. He also proposes that each man shall | carry in his haversack those articles that | may be of immediate use on the field. 1If,| for instance, a man should receive a | wound that severs an artery he would | be able himself, if the injury did not ren- | der him unconscious, to apply the tour- | niquet, check the flow of blood and be ready for removal to the hospital tent by the sanitary corps, or he could tem- porarily dress a wound that needed im- mediate attention. The idea is that men may learn to heip themselves, until re- llef comes. RIFLE PRACTICE. It has been finally decided to call, on the 21st of the present month, a meeting of the inspectors of rifle practice, with a view to formulate a set of rules and reg- ulations to enable the members of the guard to know what they are to do at the State shoot in May. The regulations now in force, adopted in November, 1896, and put into effect last June, are a mass of misinformation and impracticability that is equaled only by the useless red book of the guard. The regulations say: Target practice in the National Guard shall be heid in the months of January, May, Sep- tember and October, and ‘at 200, 300 and 500 yard ranges and skirmish firing. 5 Each officer and enlisted man will be " al- the lowed fifty-five rounds of am same will be fired as follows: O five shots at each of the 200, 300 and a0 ranges in January; one score of fve shots at each of the 200, 300 and 00 vard ranzes in September and ome score of five shots at | each of the 2, 300 and 500 yard ranmes in | October. ded that each officer gnd en- listed man must make - score of at least 15 at the 200-yard range before he will be per- mitted to fire at the 300-yard range; and_he must make a score of at least 15 at the 300- vard range before he wi.. be permitted to fire at the G00-yvard ranze; also one score of ten shots at skirmish firing in May. The language of this one of the many | sections of the regulations is what ha: been bothering the guardsmen since its | promulgation. If it means . that there shall be target practice in January, May September and October at two, three and | five hundred yard ranges and skirmish | firing they are at a loss to understand | how they can accomplish that with only | fifty-five rounds of ammunition. using up | forty-five rounds at the shoots in Janu-| ary, September and October, which would | leave them only ten rounds for target and | skirmish practice in May. The schedule | omits the menth of May, and the infer- ence from the proviso " is that the ten shots must be used in skirmish firing In that month. If that is the case then there can be no skirmish firing at the shoots in January, September and October, al- though there is an {nference in the first aragraph that there is to be skirmish | ring as well as firing at the three ranges. | Another matter that has created a great | deal of dissatisfaction is that part which declares that if a guardsman fails to | score at least 15 at the 200-vard range at | the January shoot he is_disqualified from shooting at the other ranges, and they | construe that to mean that if they fail to score at the first-named range they | are disqualified for the balance of the year. ey claim that this is an h’l]up-: tice and shuts them out from competing for honors. It will be the duty of the |board of inspectors; which has been unition an | poral L. J. Harkness. departmen, | | s. S, Pennsylvaria ed | First street, San J Colonel Park Henshaw, to he regulations so clear that all g:;febe‘ ‘:ble %o understand them. THE SIGNAL CORPS. : 7 al Corps of the Second Brigade, c.?é’&?n‘gié?‘b_ Perkins commanding, last Thursday night held its annual meeting, election for civil officers, and . ha s et in celebration of the :l;gfi'flal.nnx;‘\?ersury of the organization of - the corps. In addition to the full m: cept Lieutenant Hewes, Wi together by embership, ex- ho was absent v t on account of ilinc there v-e"e'_p)resr’n Lieutenant-Colonel nest A u}nlckien, Car n _ Abbott A. Hank (ulgflr- George C. Boardman Jr., Captain Ju SR ";e ?II‘ mem = of the |in a body and : Veterans of the National State of California. The election held In the corps I Guard of the 0oms re- | suited i ce of Privats Moss sulted in the choice of Private I. L. for re i ecretar Private H. L. 0! cording _secretary: | o Capp, corresponding s P. C. Knapp, treasurer, 8. Henton, historian. The and Corporal J. recommenda~ tion of the committee on nominations ag to the following ~ocommittees =~ Were Delinquency — Lieutenant C. L. C. Pritchard, Ti- W . E. Jones and Corporal vates V. E. Matthe . 8. | Girvin; armory—Captain P. J. Perking, Sergeant W. P. Garfield. Cor-oral H. . | Gould, Musician R. C. Delamater an Private J. W. White: investigation—Cor- Privates ?"rp"o{. Scott and S. A. Searle; finance—Corpos ral H. F. Jurs and Privates T. Carmany and W. J. Stock. The corps decided to accept the invita- tion to take part In the military display to be held in the Mechanics' Pavilion on the 22d inst., under tne auspices of the First Infantry Reg‘imenlt_. At u’:; clerv‘se of the business meeting there was 3a journment to the assembly hall, where there was an anniversary spread to which all were welcomed in a neat speeg‘h by Captain Perkins. During the ev ening there was a short programme of music arranged by the committee on entertain- ment. consisting of Corporal H. F. Gould and Privates C. S. Irwin and J. F. Forbes. There were addresses by - Lieutenant- Colonel Denicke, Captains ifanks and Foardman and others. The most interest- ing address was the one by the lieuten- ant-colonel, who at the time he was placed on the retired list was signal offi- cer on the division staff, and who during the war of the Rebellion was a signal officer. His address was one calculated to arouse the patriotic enthusiasm of his listeners, and in that he was very suce cessful, ELECTIONS. Company F of the First Infantry has re-éleg’ud John A. Miller as captain and Firman A. Nippert first lieutenant. Fred L. Brown was (‘leciiéd second lieutenant, vice Wyzeman M. Masury. Company C of the Fifth Infantry, sta- tioned at Petaluma, has re-elected s Maciay as captain; A. H. Cas- S ety vice Benjamin H. sidy, second lieutenant, vic Philitps, and H. W. Emerson, second lieutenant, vice Morton W. Stockdale. Company E, Fifth Infantry, stationed at Santa Rosa, has re-elected Captain Charles _E. Havens, First Lieutenant Charles E. Holmes and Second Lieutenant Willard C. Bes n the matter of pedigree the I18-year- old Prince wuo is the heir to the throna of Japan seems to hold the lead. He is, it is sald, tue last male descendant in the order of primogeniture of a dynasty who has reigned 2600 years. OCEAN TRAVEL. Pacific Coast Steamship Co. Steamers leave wharf, San Francisco: For 'Alaskan_ports, 10 a. m., April 1, 6, 11, 16, 21,26, May 1, transfer at Seattle. For Alaskan ports (trom: Spear street wharf), 10 a. m., April 8, 18, 23, May 3, transfer at Portland, Or. For Victorla, Vancouver (B. C.), Port Town- send, Seattle, Tacoma, Everett, Anacortes and New Whatcom (Wash.), 10 a.'m., April 1, 6, 11, 16, 21, 2%, May 1, and every fitth day there- after, connecting at Seattle with this com- any's steamers for Alaska and G. N. Ry., at Hacoma with N. P. Ry., at Vancouver with C._P. Ry. For Eureka (Humboldt Bay), 10 a April 2, 8, 14, 20, 26, May 2, and every s day thereafter. 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