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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. s All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. SUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts. S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2!7 to 291 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1574. THE AN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) s served by carrlers In this clty and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. OAKLAND OFFICE... +rseees.-.908 Broadrray NEW YORK OFFICE.. -Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative, WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.. Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE... Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. One year, by mall, $1.50 SRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'closk. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o’clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. . 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untli 9 o'clock. untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'cleck. AMUSEMENTS, Columbia—*Fort Frayne " The Passion Play™ Frederick the Greas " “The Gossoon. Boecaceto.” Orpheum—Vaundeville. The Chutes—Zoo, Vaudeville and Cannon, the 613-pound Man. Olympia—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Specialties. Sutro’s Baths—Swimming. El Campo—Music, dancing, boating, fishing, every Sunday. Oakland Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. By S. Basch—This day, June 2, Furniture, at §l4 Lombard street, at 11 o’clock. By Sullivan & Doyle—This day, June 29, Horses, etc., at 827 Sixth street, at 11 0'clock. By Frank W. Butterfield—This day, June 29, Furniture, at 204 Turx street, at 11 0 clock. S expressions of British sentiment favorable to American annexation of the Philippine Islands and other colonies of Spain, that it is worth while to direct attention to certain words of warning from the same source. Colonial possessions are not viewed by all Englishmen as desirable, and some of the sin- cerest friends of the United States in that country are now citing the experience of the British empire WORDS OF WARNING. O much consideration has been given of late to itself as a proof that we will venture upon a hazard- | ous and uncertain career if we follow her lead as a model instead of profiting by it as a warning. Henry Labouchere describes the result of colonial “We | expansion upon British politics in these words: used to glory that we were a non-military nation. We have driited into the position of a nation with larger armaments than any other. No matter what we spend on armaments we are called to spend more. We hold a larger portion of the globe than any other nation. So absorbing becomes earth hunger when once indulged, that we are every year adding new territories to our empire. And what is the result? All domestic reforms are put aside as unworthy to oc- cupy our imperial minds. If a poor man asks for bread he is told joyfully to starve with the comforting reflection that he is a citizen of an extensive and ex- panding empire.” The truth of these words will not be questioned by any one familiar with the course of British politics. Again and again Mr. Gladstone, in the course of his illustrious career, was thwarted in his efforts to ac- complish some great reform at home by the interfer- ence of foreign complications, arising from some of the wide scattered colonies of the empire. At this very time Great Britain leaves her people half edu- cated and serious local evils unremedied, because so much of her attention, her wealth and her energies arz required to maintain her prestige in Asia and Africa. It is not in this generation only that the wiser class of British patriots have been averse to colonial ex- pansion. Nor have the objections to the expansive policy been founded solely upon the interference of that policy with home reforms. It has been pointed out in times past that colonial possessions of the em- pire have not only prevented the workingman at home from getting a crust of bread, but have been actually a cause of military weakness o the nation. In his essay on the West Indies, Macaulay says: “There are some who assert that in a military and naval point of view the West Indies are of great im- portance to this country. This is a common but a monstrous misrepresentation. We venture to say that colonial empire has been one of the greatest curses of modern Europe.” After referring to the disastrous experience of Spain and Holland and Por- tugal with their colonies, he adds: “If the experi- ence of others is lost upon us, shall we not profit by our own? What have we not sacrificed to our in- fatuated passion for trans-Atlantic dominion. * * This inspired us with the project of conquer- ing America. This induced us to resign all the ad- vantages of ourinsular situation—to embroil ourselves in the intrigues and fight the battles of half the conti- nent—to form coalitions which were Instantly broken and to give subsidies which were never earned. * * Shall we never learn wisdom? Shall Wwe never cease to prosecute a pursuit wilder than the wildest dreams of alchemy with all the credulity and all the profusion of Sir Epicure Mammon?” Certain British jingoes - engaged in this pursuit would be glad to have America embark with them and help them fight their battles. They urge us to an alliance and to the annexation of Hawaii, the Phil- ippines and everything in sight. That course would mean our embroilment in all European wars here- after, and the sacrifice of all home reforms to imperial policies. Tt would be to bring upon America all the disasters which, according to Labouchere and Ma- caulay, have already befallen Great Britain. B e The value of the technicality has again been demon- strated. It was used here a few munths ago to ac- cord freedom to a convicted forger, and the happy man has shown his appreciation of the situation by indulging in forgery again. This time, however, he went to Chicago to do it, and possibly the techni- cality is not held so high there as on this coast. There are plenty of arguments against the annexa- tion of Hawaii without introducing as one of them the theory that the islands may one day be swallowed up of the sea. There is not even a continent which can be certain of lasting forever. The thief caught recently with his hand in a wo- man’s pocket must be given credit for some perspicu- ity. At least he had found the pocket. Possibly Germany means nothing by concéumting warships at Manila, not even to be polite. 1505 Polk street, open | A HAND-ME-DOWN NATIONAL POLICY. | APL’BLIC policy is not a matter of artifice and manufacture. It must develop out of the na- ture of things. Many yellow papers are busy just now manufac- turing “a hand-me-down policy,” a sort of political panacea, warranted to fit all cases. One of the most pretentious of these efforts and the least honest in its motive comes of course from Hearst’s journal Its leading features are the annexation of Hawaii and the purchase of coaling stations in the West In- dies! These two features reveal a conspiracy that has been promoted by some corrupt newspapers and | some corrupt men. One may ask why annex Ha- | waii and not Cuba? If the possession of Honoluly, | | 2000 miles away from the western end of the Nicar- | agua canal, is important to the integrity of that great enterprise and international necessity, why is not the possession of Havana, within 500 miles of its east- | ern end, more important? Honolulu is not on the shortest route from the western end of the canal to Asia, to Yokohama, Hongkong and Manila. That | route passes only 100 miles west of San Francisco. Cuba lies directly in the shortest route for all com- | merce leaving or entering the canal by the eastern | end. Cuba commands the Windward Passage and the channel of Yucatan and so commands completely | the Caribbean Sea. Why annex distant Hawaii, | more than 2000 miles off the shortest route to Pa- cific commerce, and drop Cuba, within a day’s steam of the east end of the canal and commanding the | shortest route to Atlantic commerce? Why buy West Indian coaling stations, farther away from | the vital point and far less cominanding, when we‘ can take Cuba at once? - The answer involves an | inquiry into the selfish personal motives of IIearst‘ and some others, as revealed by circumstantial tes- i timony. The Journal urged recognition of the Cu- | ban insurgent Government. All of its reprcsenm-q: | | tions about that Government and the military force behind it are proved to have been lies, by the reports of our army officers who have penctrated the in- terior of the island in search of what had no exist- ence. The first inquiry is why did Hearst lie about the so-called Cuban Government and army, to in- | duce Congressional recognition and create a misin- | formed public opinion that would coerce the Presi- | dential assent? | To answer this inquiry it is only mecessary to il- | luminate the situation with the testimony of Mr. | Kohlsaat of the Chicago Times-Herald, who was of- | fered $2,000,000 of the Cuban bonds, printed as a | blanket mortgage on the island, to be validated by recognition of the insurgent Government, and placed to the amount of $400,000,000, in the hands of the | Cuban Junta in New York, to be put where they will | | do the most good in securing the recognition neces- | sary to their validity. ‘What part of this vast sum is | used in bribery of newspapers no one can know, but the fact of its existence and of the offer of $2,000,000 | of it to a Chicago paper are all that is needed to close the inquiry into Hearst's personal motive. Having a newspaper property that loses money in le- | gitimate business, recoupment is possible by taking | | bribes to urge a domestic policy that will validate | foreign bonds issued by bandits, and adventurers. | The President and General Lee were undoubtedly | aware of the situation, for they both urged against | any recognition of the insurgent Government. But | when the case went to Congress Hearst's papers and | the other yellow papers of the country howled in | | | chorus for recognition. For a long time the issue was in doubt. It was the Senate ayainst the House. of war, which was left in the form of a peremptory | demand on Spain to dismember herself or we would | treat her refusal as a casus belli. Logically such | }a demand should have led to our taking what Spain | | is compelled to drop in the West Indies. The in- | surgent Government and armies being, in a diplo- | | matic and military sense, merely myths, the expul- } sion of Spain being the end of actual organized gov- | ernment on the island, could mean only our posses- | sion and government. | But that would invalidate the Cuban bonds. Tt | would nullify the Junta’s blanket mortgage on the {island. It would destroy all value in the bonds in | | the possession of yellow editors, except as admoni-i ‘rtory reminiscences of treason to their own country | | and greed of the substance of Cuba. In this situa- | ‘(ion that remarkable qualification found its way into | | the Congressional declaration, by which we pledge | ourselves not to acquire or annex Cuba! Note that | no other inch of Spanish territory is under protec- | tion of that pledge. Cuba, the most valuable and | necessary of all the Spanish domain, is rejected and \ we are left free to take all that is less valuable and | less necessary! | Why? Because abstention from annexing Cuba | may put the Junta on top after our soldiers have ex- pelled the Spanish. Recognition will then be a necessity and the bonds and blanket mortgage will be valid, and begin to draw interest! It is highly probabie that a revelation of the facts would show the use of money by the Planters’ Trust, to secure advocates of Hawaiian annexation among American newspapers. This being so, no one doubts that Hearst’s great “national policy” is for his personal profit. To earn a fee and validate his Cuban bonds Hawaii must be taken and Cuba must be rejected. There is the whole case. If his policy can be ac- counted for on any other grounds, we would be glad to know what they are. e r———— A WARNING TO CORPORATIONS. LL through the Mississippi Valley, and to a fl considerable extent in the East, a widespread interest has been manifested in the disclosures made in the recent preliminary trial of certain former officers of the Pacific Express Company who have been charged by the present officers with embezzle- ment. Nor is the public interest in the subject at all surprising, for, according to reports, the evidence in the case has exposed to the full light of day some of the worst effects of that corruption which seems to be the inevitable result of bringing a corporation and a Legislature into close connection. Reports of the case are to the effect that the pres- ent officers of the company charge thelr predecessors with having embezzled some $200,000 of the com- pany’s money, and the defense asserts that the money was not misappropriated, but was used for the pur- posc of defeating hostile legislation at the State capi- tal. It appears that the company maintained a lobby at an annual cost of $10,000, and found it necessary to do so in order to defeat bills designed to reduce express rates. The former officers of the company hold that this expenditure, being essential to the business of the road, was a due and legitimate expenditure. The new officers take the opposite view, and by their prosecution have led to a disclosure of the whole mat- ter in court. Up to the present time only a pre- liminary trial has been had, and it is not clear how far the disclosures may go before the end is reached. Enough seems to have been made public, however, to show that the lobby, having once fastened itself upon the company, could not be shaken off. The legislative $10,000, which was first granted to -meet | | effect as a whole upon the public mind will be bad. | made in a letter we have just received from Captain | poses that the city erect one at the junction of Cali- | This contemplates a two-story structure with accom- | modations for both sexes and proper attendance. | conferred upon the people. | building at any of the junctions except those already | occupied by fountains. | tion of the Market Street Company to convert the | Montgomery street. | Market streets. a particular emergency, became in the end a perma- nent annual expenditure. In the meantime it is said that circulars containing the gist of the evidence thus far brought out have been printed and are being scattered over the Mis- sissippi Valley States as campaign documents for Populists, radical Democrats and others who are making the fight against corporations in all forms. The facts will undoubtedly aid in strengthening popu- lar antagonism to corporations, and in confirming suspicions that all are more or less active in bribing legislators. To that extent a grave injury will be done to many honest companies, and moreover the The moral of the case is too clear to be mistaken. Corporations should not permit themselves to be bled by dishonest lobbyists. It may be difficult to shake off the gang that has once fastened itself upon such an organization, but there is a way to do it. In the Nebraska case, for example, it is safe to say the new officers of the Pacific Express Company will never be called upon to put up $10,000 for the boys at Lin- coln. The Southern Pacific Company might profit by the example. fl visors permission was granted a committee of merchants to remove the dilapidated Cogswell fountain at the junction of Californta and Market streets and raise in its place a flag pole 100 feet high. This probably disposes of the idea entertained by some of our esteemed but inartistic contemporaries of erecting on this spot a statue of Admiral Dewey, for it is extremely improbable that permission to raise a flag pole can be construed into authority to erect a statie—though it must be admitted that lan- guage is not likely to mean much to persons who think a statue is rendered attractive by surrounding it with street cars, cobbles, boxes, drays and other prosy instruments of business. The flag pole also disposes of another suggestion A GOOD SUGGESTION. T yesterday’s meeting of the Board of Super- Goodall—a suggestion, which, by the way, had it been | made sooner would have been worthy much con- sideration. Perhaps it is not too late, however, to | discuss it in another relation. Captain Goodall calls attention to the fact that San Francisco is without a public lavatory and he pro- fornia and Market streets in place of the Cogswell fountain. In his letter he briefly outlines a plan. He thinks the expense of building a lavatory and main- taining it afterward would be justified by the benefit Although it will probably not be practicable to | change the determination of the merchants who have | decided to erect a flag pole at the junction of Califor- | nia and Market streets, there is nothing to prevent the Supervisors considering Captain Gcodall's sug- gestion with a view to locating a lavatory in some | at the Palace. other place. It would be possible to erect such a There is a possible site at the intersection of Post, Montgomery and Market | streets. We understand that the cable turntable at | this point will soon be removed, it being the inten- Post street line into an electric road and turn it into If this is done a lavatory nfight be located on the site of the turntable. Such a building to be useful ought to be on the line of travel, and there is no spot in the city—except it may be Market and Kearny strects—over which a greater number of people travel in a day than pass and repass at Montgomery and At all events, a lavatory is prefera- ble to a statue. We commend Captain Goodall’s suggestion to the artistic sense of the Zulus who have proposed to surround a bronze effigy of the hero of Manila with cheap eating houses, wholesale dry goods stores, drays, humming street cars and bil- lowing cobbles and basalt blocks. SUPPORTING THE CHINESE. COMMENTIXG upon the controversy now go- ing on over the employment of Chinese labor in this city in the manufacture of uniforms un- der Government contracts, the Bulletin says: “The alacrity of The Call in charging Major Long with conniving at the employment of coolies, and in in- fluencing the minds of the laboring classes against the quartermaster has come near bringing about a row which might seriously injure this city by caus- ing the Government to let future contracts in other parts of the country, when they should be let here.” Upon this theme of an injury to the city, possibly resulting from the exposure of the coolie work by The Call, the Bulletin harps at considerable length and closes by saying: “San Francisco is abundant- ly able to perform all the work necessary to be done. All the merchants and manufacturers who have been questioned declare this to be true, and that it would be most unfortunate if an effort to array the laboring classes against the Government officials should result in a great rumpus that would give Washington a false impression of the conditions existing in this city.” The only conclusion to be drawn from that argu- ment is that it would be better to connive at the em- ployment of coolie labor on Government contracts than to protest against it and run the risk of losing the contracts altogether. The Bulletin would hush the matter up and let the Chinatown sweatshops do the work. The Call is of a different conviction on the subject. The implication that we have tried to array the laboring classes against the Government officials is false. The report that Chinese were employed on Government contracts in this city led to an investiga- tion by labor councils and The Call published the news of these investigations and made some of its own. Tt also published communications between labor representatives here and authorities at Wash- ington. All these things were current events of in- terest to our people and, therefore, legitimate sub- jects for a live newspaper to make known. That The Call sympathized with the efforts of the labor urions and councils to prevent the employment of coolies on the army contracts is beyond question, but in supporting them it made no attempt to array them against the Government officials nor to raise what the Bulletin calls a “great rumpus.” As a matter of fact, no rumpus or row is in sight, and there is no danger that the city wifl suffer from the exploitation which has been made of the coolie work. On the contrary, the white labor of the city will be benefited and the interest of our working men and women materially improved. The contest has been a straightforward, open fight for white labor against coolie labor, and The Call is glad to have been able to render assistance to the white laborers of the city in winning it. That the Bulletin would have preferred to hush the matter up and let the coolies continue to get the work is susceptible of but one explanation, and that is too obvious to re- 1898. COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS T. D. Valentine of Ukiah is at the Bald- win. F. B. Heath and son of San Jose are at the Russ. Abner T. Reid of Appleton, Wis., is at the Palace. George Moore of Sitka is registered at the Baldwin. Joseph Ryland of San Jose is stopping Judge George B. Graham of Fresno is staying at the Grand. James McCudden, ex-Senator and politi- cian, is at the Baldwin. William C. Parker, the vineyardist of Kenyon, is at the Grand. E. F. Groppeley, connected with the | Taylor mine, is at the Russ. E. McLaughlin, a prominent banker of | San Jose, is registered at the Ocidental. J. W. Wilmans, rancher and mine owner, of Newmans, is staying at the Lick. rden, owner of the | registered at the | Charles Trumbull Ha Tempe flour mills, is Russ. $OPPOOHOOH®OOG®> Some men court @ ¢ & dangerous situa- & SUSPICION & tions for the sole $ 1S A DREADFUL § purpose of dis-| % & playing an in-| THING. @ Sstinctive clever- @ X nessin extricating 6606000660000 11emselves and standing in the eyes of their fellows as specimens of the self-possessed and self- composed. Charles M. Plum tells another | story and he confesses that he was rat- | tled to a_degree of immediate dissolution and yet he was in no wise to blame for | the error committed. This little incident | in the life of Plum occurred.in the Orien- tal room of the Palace Hotel at an hour of the evening when the ladies are walt- ing for their husbands to join them for a theater-going. Mrs. Plum had been slow- ly consuming her stock of patience and was engaged in a conversation with u | lady friend when Mr. Plum put in an pearance. Seeing his wife absorbed in the evidently interesting tete-a-tete he hesl- tated in the doorway before approaching her. Then It was that he overheard the following that brought the ruby red to his cheeks and made him look like a guilty thing startled by a cock’s crow. | The friend of Mrs. Plum Innocently re- marked: ‘“What a handsome gentleman that is standing in the doorway.” To this she added: “Isn't it strange? Now I know | him very well and yet I cannot place him. Why T have been in his company again and again and we hoth enjoyed ourselves immensely.” For three minutes Mrs. Plum held her breath. Charles M. has been ex- plaining ever J. B. Hughes, United States mail con- tractor of McCoal, Miss., is staying at the Russ. R. C. Bulmer and Barron P. Du Bofs, of | the United States navy, are registered at the Palace. E. C. Humphreys, who was formerly a Superior Court Judge of Denver, is at the California. J. A. Rithet and E. P. Rithet have re- turned after an absence of a year and are taying at the California. avid T. Day of the United States Geo- | logical Survey has arrived from Washing- ton and is stopping at the Palace. W. H. G. Arnemann and family have arrived in this city from Honolulu and are stopping at the Occidental. Mr. Arnemann is a large plantation holder in the islands. ‘W. M. Coburn and wife and W. D. Co- burn and wife are in this city from Great Falls, Mont., on their honeymoon. The Coburns are well-known cattlemen of Montana. They are staying at the Oceci- dental. COMPANY A’S FAREWELL. This song, which was written for the occasion, was sung by Mrs. George Hall at the farewell reception given Company A at Chico: They'll march away in battle array, Our own loved boys in_blue, With gallant Henshaw right in front, And hearts all strong and true; They'll sail away o'er the ocean wide, To our ships in Manila Bay, God Dbless them all! May they all come back— Our gallant Company A. CHORUS. Right, forward, fours right, Jack Cahill leads the way. Heads up, eyes front, We're off to Manila Bay! Remember the Maine, and Dewey, too, It may be for many a day- But (Company, Attention! Rea Our gallant Company A. y! Aim! Fire!) For_mother and wife and sweetheart, too, We'll drop one parting tear; But close up ranks, And the band strikes up, So_give them a parting cheer. G;‘d bless them all! May they all come vack, From far Manila Bay. For we love them all, our Our gallant Company A.—(Cl in blue, ) SPROUL, he b I FALLACIES PUNCTURED. Senator White Replies to Oakland’s Board of Trade. That Senator White is not in accord with the Oakland Board of Trade on the subject of Hawailan annexation is evi- denced by the following reply to the res- olutions of that body which were sent to him: Committee on Commerce, United States Senate. ‘Washington, D. C., June 12, 1888, Cralgie Sharp Esq., Secretary Board of Trade, Oakland, Cal.—Dear Sir: I have received resolutions of the Oakland Board of Trade adopted the 2d instant. My views with reference to annexation have been so often expressed that it is unnecessary to go Into the subject again. I am utterly opposed to the whole scheme and consider it originated in the illegal and outrageous conduct of former Minister Stevens. The main supporters of the project have been drawing down millions every year, whicn ought to go into the treasury of the United States. The pretense that we neea Hawali for a coaling station is unsus- tained. If the Government really desires a coaling station Pearl Harbor affords the necessary location and can be made, as the Board of Engineers have reported, not only desirable for that purpose, but much more 80 than Honolulu, which, according to the testimony of General Schofield, can not be easily defended. There is no trouble as to coaling even at Honolulu. The suggestion that Euro- ean powers or Japan object is untrue. ou say: “The distance between Manila and San Francisco via Honolulu being ap- proximately one thousand miles shorter than by Unalaska, the only other coalini station, which lies away to the north ang out of the direct lines of travel.” As a matter of fact, the distance via the Aleu- tian Islands from San Francisco to Manila lsl rlxea-l'ly 800 miles shorter than via Hon- olulu. You have probably taken an ordinary map and paid no attention to the Great Circle. The map showing *Tracks for full-powered steam vessels,”” issued by the Government, will show that I am right. By consulting this you will have no difh- culty in noting that you are a couple ot thousand miles out of the way. I desire in every way to accord with the views of all of mY constituents, but it is impossible to comply with the wishes of every one, however much they may have my personal respect. I have not reached a hasty concluslon, but on the contrary have made up my mind after careful in- vestigation as to all the bearings of this important subject. Yours truly, STEPHEN M. WHITE, —_——— CALIFORNIA TO PENNSYLVANTIA The first battalion of the Tenth Regi- ment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers met with a royal reception on reaching San Francisco en route to Manila. The har- bor screamed a welcome to our troops with all its whistles; the highways of lge city waved salutations with innumerable flags; the multitude turned out to shower the soldier boys with gifts of fruits and flowers, thy C) e Soclet: -~ freshed them with hot coffee and aelu’u:.rBe meal, in the old “Volunteer Refreshment’” style o mtegb nl:?{a than a generation and_hospitality are not new #ralia of tha Callfornisns; they are Dark of their nature, and the people of the Golden State never fail to declare them- selves when the occasion prompts. But there was more than warmth of hospital- ity and heartiness of welcome in vester- day's tumultuous ovation. It was the pa- triotic_sentiment back of the demonstra- tion which made it so expressive. Indeed, San Francisco's handshake yesterday fully demonstrated that one prompt, wholesome effect of the war has been to draw the furthermost bounds of the con- tinent closer together with the instinct of brglherhoodand unity.—Philadelphia Rec- ord. ————————— ONE OF NATURE'S NOBLEMEN. Editor San Francisco Call: Noticing in the issue of your paper of this date the sudden death of Robert McMurray of Ne- vada County, whose career as a mining capitalist you recite in brief, I am im- pelled by & desire to have general recog- nition accorded his noble gualities of heart in asking for a little space in your | valuable paper devoted to the theme, “Af- fection’s Last Offering—from one who knew him well.” Robert McMurray was. in all respects, one of the noblest of his kind—a man ever ready to attest by a manly and generous | act the full measure of his earnest and sympathetic nature; with a mind so com- preusensive of the needs of the toiling classes that even when exacting require- ments of his representation of large min- ing interests harassed him almost beyond endurance, he yet found, ever and al- ways, the needed moments to extend the helping hand and offer cheering and kindly words to the apxious and needy toilers; with a purse always at the dis- posal of a friend, and a due consideration for that genuine worth in man or woman hood that refrained from the appeal. He found the opportunity to bring gladness to suffering hearts without ostentation, avolding the thankful praise which his action so well earned. Chapter upon chapter may be written upon the pages of the history of Nevada County dwelling upon the indomitable wtll which, backed by his progressive spirit, has made his superb efforts for her development so gran .y successful, but yet standing out in bold relief as a separate and distinct evidence of greatness of soul will be the generous deeds performed by this great hearted man who lies cold and lifeless in his beautiful home, in itself a monument to his refined and cultured nature. Yes, the State at large has met with a loss se- vere, indeed, in that one of its most dis- tinguished ploneer miners has left it for- ever pared with those narrower sections where known—in his much loved county of Ne- vada. There will be a void in the ranks of its citizens which no other man can fill, and in the little, peaceful town _of North San Juan the loss of Robert Mc- Murray will be the most severely felt for it was there especilally that ‘“‘Ma in the presence of that large family, that included all the people, of whatever sex or condition, was at home—with those who hailed his coming with delight, and were lonely when he was absent. Respect- tully, CIE. L Oakland, June 28. e IN MEMORY OF SMALLWOOD. The monument in honor of General Wil- liam Smallwood, the Revolutionary sol- dier, at the Smallwood place, in Charles Md., will be dedicated on July inscription on the monument is as In Memory of General Willlam Smallwood, A Hero of the American Revo- | lution, and a Native of Maryland. Commissioned Colonel in 1 Brigadier General fn 1777, Major General in 1780. Elected Governor of Maryland in 1785. Died February 14, 1792. Erected by the Maryland So- | clety Sons of the American Revolution. July 4, 1888. STRANGE MISREPRESFNTATION Is all the army gathered in Tampa and Cape Thomas (sic) like that? The reports coming from there will answer the ques- tion, for our war correspondent gives a vivid ‘description of camp life in Key ‘West, where the old piratical traditions of that former nest of pirates are being now resuscitated. Since the sailors, the cowboys, the Indian scouls (sic), the black regiments and the prairie riders have awakened the old instincts, the people are being reminded of their “‘heroic past,” and Key West is to-day a den of gobbers; the boldest imagination could not find colors bright enough to represent the ro- mantic traits of such a scene. The motley mob_plunders there in_ broad daylight, steal ever; thini on which they can lay hands, and break into the hotels—mostly improvised structures—and into all Gove ernment buildings. It was high time to proclaim martial law there, for the reg- ular troops, who have but very vague ideas of discipline, have begun to assist their plundering brethren. There, between Tampa, Cayenne, Hayti and Panama, there always existed in times of peace an innumerabie_crowd of broken-down fugi- tives from European law courts, of ad- venturers and desperadoes, such as no other region of the globe ever saw. Now they have all met there. * * The ships captured by the American navy do not escape from such ‘‘philanthropic” pro- ceedings; on some of them everything movable has been stolen; whole cargoes of wine and cigars are missing. When some time ago the Government decided to send two of those ships to New Orleans the sailors rebelled and would not sur- render them without a fight.—Extract from Bund, Berne. but its loss is but a trifle as com- | age, | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. E. F. LOUD.—Congressman Loud was born in Abington, Mass., March 12, 1547, At the age of 13 he went to sea. In 1332 he enlisted in the California cavalry bat- tallon, which became part of the Second Massachusetts Cavalry; remained until the close of the war; returned to Califor- | nia; studied law; was in the customs vicé; in the mercantile busine the Legislature in 1884; was the San Francisco Tax Collector's office just previous to his election to the House of Representatives. AN INTRODUCTION—A. B., Pescadero, Cal. This correspondent wants to know if it is proper for a lady to say on being troduced to a gentleman, “I am pleased to meet you.” That depends whether it is a pleasure to her to make the acquaintance of the gentleman. If it is not a pleasurs there is no rule of etiquette that requires her to tell an untruth. If it is a plea she should so say, but if it is not she should not say anything, but acknowledgs the Introduction with a bow and then pro- ceed with conversation if there is occasion for such. MAGUIRE—C. H. James J., Maguire, Representative from Californi was born in Boston, Mass., February City. a, 1853 He came to California with parents in 1854, was educated in the pr lic schools of Watsonville, Santa Cruz County, and in a private academy of that place. After leaving school he served four years learning the trade of a black- smith, and after that taught school for He then studied i to the Legis- admitted of 1f. two yvears and a I law, and in 1875 wa lature, and in 187 | practice in the Supreme Court | State of California. to the | R., Banning, Cal. By the terms vears or the war” men have enl! the period of two years. At the tion of that time they are entitled to the discharge from the service, but shot the war terminate before the expiration vears the Government would have of two the right to muster them out. That was done during the Civil War, when the en- nts were for “th ears t s the ration of te At the end of thre rged at the exi stment, but as the war was over, the Government gave each man w would re-enlist a furlough and a bour | of $200. MAIL en rm 1e was almost daily seen and the better | TO SOLDIERS—J. M. and se | eral ot City. Mail intended for so | diers at Manila will close this morning at |8 o'clock. This mail will be taken by o of the transports Mail intended for | the service of the Un‘ sent through the regular channels. matter should be plainly addressed to t name of the individual the organization to W it which he w sited in the po The postal autho ce or a postofi ties will then fc same by the most direct route ge is domestic post- me as charged for a mall matter sent to any part of the United Letters mailed by soldiers who went with the first e h San Fran It wi ication ition to Manila will sco in thirty or thirty- I depend on the means between Manila and reach —_— e ————— Cal. glace fruit §0c per 1b at Townsend's.® —_ e e————— Celebrate the Fourth with California Buy direct from makers. ifornia Fireworks Co., 219 Front st. —_————————— information supplied dally to Special business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * —_——————— The origin of the word “sirloin of beef” is variously stated. 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