The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 23, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1898. cvsss-JULY 23, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. T o PUBLICATION OFFICE .Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868, EDITORIAL ROOM ee...-217 to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 THE S8AN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) s 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 DAKLAND OFFICE. NEW YORK OFFICE DAVID ALLEN, WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE...............Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE .-Marquette Bullding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. One year, by mall, $1.50 908 Broadway Room 188, World Buflding vertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'cloak. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. | 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 25I8 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open unth 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, opem untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana ntucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS lumbla—*Liberty Hall" “Faust tain Impudence " nming. po—Music, dancing,boating, fishing, every Sunday. tecreation Park—Baseball this afternoon. Coursing—At Union Coursing Park. side Coursing Park. AUCTION SALES. By Frank W. Butterfield— This day, July 28, Library, at corner Market a enth streets, at8 0 cIOCK P. M. E ~This day, July 23, Horses, eto, at 510 avenue, at 11 0'clock. a Y one of the curious errors which sometimes B excite grief in a newspaper office, the types got mixed in the making up of yesterday morning's paper. A part of an article about the local military camp and the sickness among the soldiers got an- nexed to an account of the jolly time the League of the Cross Cadets are having at Camp Montgomery at Santa Rosa. The consequence was the statement that re were eighty cases of measles among the boys, whereas there are no measles, have not been, nor any sickness of any kind, and the boys are enjoying the best of health. ar instances of confusion will occur in every lishment, and the rarity of them, consid- ‘ te with which work must be done, is a “MEASLEY” MISTAKE. YELLOW JOURNALISTS EXILED. ’ELLOW journalists have, by order of General \ Sh been expelled from Cuba. The com- of the American forces there could not gle step which would have been more | Into exile and disgrace must go every of the New York Journal and the San er. Their presence at the seat of ne with wonderful patience. Their | , their impertinent meddling, their | eading information, designed to be- | y as well as the public, had become | ance. hey have richly earned Liars, michief makers, a reproach i upon the profession they | to follow, it is well that they should have lesson. on reached them. They were appar- 1 se of shame, but to be pronounced » associate with soldiers and gentlemen, to be 1 away like unclean hangers-on of the camp, ice so degrading that it must touch Traitors to their country, seeking fur- ubroil it, to stir strife to new bitterness, to and the dignity of Government, n stripped of their power for ill. If atent within them some lingering instinct must feel as did Dreyfus when, be- fore the assembled troops, he was shorn of his weap- ons. We congratulate Hearst that he had enrolled h 1g the precious band. We commiserate people of the United States that the exiles must come back to these shores. However, they will no more be able to annoy the public and harass the army. ow let a fresh wreath of laurel be placed above cture of General Shafter over the door of the er; yes, make it two wreaths. A great moral has been achieved Is an expe! even them elf According to General Garcia the report that Gen- eral Shafter refused to permit Cubans to enter Santi- ago for fear there would be massacre and looting is too ridiculous for belief. According to an unbiased view from a distance there is nothing ridiculous about it, and it has every aspect of solemn truth. An evening paper makes known the important fact that the indigent dead are to escape the war tax. Possibly the dead not indigent will regard this as special legislation, but no protest has yet been heard from them. Blanco claims that he did not consen: to the sur- render of Santiago. A little later, however, he will consent to the surrender of Havana, and there will be no opportunity for squirming out of it. Up to the time of going to press the latest infor- mation from Wells-Fargo was that the company ex- pected the public to continue paying the corpora- tion’s war tax. A Spanish cruiser “on a secret mission” is reported. No secret about it. The only possible mission of a Spanish cruiser is to keep out of the way of an Amer- ican cruiser, “A London dispatch to the New York Journal says,” etc. But what possible difference what a dis- patch to that sheet from London or anywhere else may say? “ If Spain divide the remnant of her navy as she now insanely threatens, the American battle-ships will at- tend to continuing the division to the fragmentary stage. ——— It is to be hoped that the report that Spain intends to add to her shame by court-martialing Toral is un- true. The general is not to blame for not being a fool. Another man has jokingly pointed a pistol at his | ness and considerable force. He was appointed to the | army. THE PINTO COMMITTEE. HEN the Inopportune State Committee W adopted the advice of the Examiner that the Democracy of San Francisco could not be trusted to hold an open primary, it was evident that authority was to be usurped to carry out . Pinto programme for the production of a piebald ticket. There followed the arbitrary appointment of the committee of one hundred and its usurpation of all : party authority in this city, with power to appoint delegates and nominate tickets. There was in ex- istence a regular party committee, with title derived from the people, but this was set aside. Among the solemn oaths of the one hundred was an engagement to not instruct for any candidates, nor advance any personal fortunes. There was opposition among Populists and Demo- crats to fusion. A Populist convention, representing one-half the counties of the State, met, divided nearly evenly and split into two parties. One nomi- | nated Maguire for Governor on a Populist platform. The other nominated Shanahan on the same platform. In the coming Democratic convention San Francisco | will hold the control. The vote of her delegation will nominate candidates and install programmes. That delegation will be appointed by the committee of one hundred. That committee was not ‘“in- structed” for Maguire. It has merely “indorsed” him. It will appoint a solid Maguire delegation, of course. So the Pinto programme is pushed. The party is to take its candidate from the Populists. He is to be chosen without primary reference to the peo- ple who are expected to elect him. It would be difficult to invent a series of intrigues and incidents more at variance with popular govern- ment, more at war with every consideration of party honor. It is a brazen advertisement that a party which is not fit to be trusted within reach of a pri- mary ballot-box, and is condemned by its leaders, is fit to control a State and local administration of public affairs! The Call does not think that meanly of the Democ- racy of this State, for the party has not yet indorsed its leaders’ verdict of dishonesty and unfitness. If a ticket so nominated is supported heartily by the party, that verdict of guilty will be self-indorsed and the people will be warned against an organization which confesses its unfitness to govern itself and at the same time affirms its fitness to govern the State. | It remains to be seen what the old liners will do. When Dr. Glenn was the candidate of such a Pinto | combination General Jo Hamilton was requested to stump the State for the ticket, and he replied, “I have stumped the State many times for a Democrat, Democrats from principle may feel a good deal like( the old war-horse of Placer. ——— ARCIA'S letter to General Shafter announcing that he had tendered his resignation as com- mander of the Cuban army at Santiago, and upon it he would withdraw his troops to the interior, was the first important step on the part of the Cubans ! in a course destined to bring them into conflict with | latter, when an attack was made upon a detachment of Spanish troops marching to Santiago to sur- render. but never for a half-breed.” The men who were DISCONTENTED_ CUBANS. that pending the action of the Cuban Government the United States. A more decisive step was taken Garcia stated his reasons for resigning with clear- command of the Cuban army of the east, as he says, with instructions from what he calls “the Government | of the Republic,” to co-operate with the American That duty he claims to have fulfilled as best he could, but he complains that he was not consulted | by General Shafter with regard either to the sur- render of Santiago or its administration since. He | protests against leaving the city under the civil con- | trol of the former authorities appointed by the Span- | ish Government, and asserts that since it is impossible for him to co-operate with the United States army under such conditions, his resignation becomes im- perative. The letter and the protest would have been more effective if Garcia or his Cubans had ever genuinely co-operated with our army before the capture of | Santiago. It is a matter of common fame that they were expected to do so, but completely failed to ful- fill the expectation. They took no part in the fight- ing of the skirmish line as it cleared the way for the main body of our troops. Neither did they join in the direct attack upon the Spanish entrenchments when the battle began in earnest. Nor would they aid in the toilsome work of constructing roads for the passage of the artillery from the coast to positions | on the hills from which they could command the | lines of the enemy. These offenses of omission, however, are as noth- ing to the crime committed in the attack upon prison- e1s of war. It is now difficult to see how Garcia can be treated as other than an outlaw. The United | States cannot tolerate attacks upon prisoners who had surrendered to its arms. Garcia has violated the law of nations and of civilization and must pay the penalty. It is the fault of the Cubans themselves, therefore, that they have lost the right to co-operate with our army. Neither the people nor the troops of the | United States were prejudiced against them. On the | contrary, all the preconceived ideas of our peoplei were in their favor. Congress, in fact, came very | near recognizing their independent nationality and | sending an army there to uphold it. Had Garcia and his followers shown any merit whatever this country would have been only too glad to recognize it. Their own acts have been the causes that have made co- | operation impossible. It must be borne in mind, moreover, that citizens of the United States have great property interests in | the province of Santiago, and it is the duty of our officers to provide a safe government for their pro- tection. As has been pointed out, our army landed at a dock built by an American mining company; the Bethlehem Iron Works own the railway from San- tiago to the manganese mines at San Luis; the Juragua Mining Company is a Carnegie enterprise; the Sigua Iron Company is American, and so on through a long list, including railways and sugar plantations and other properties. Mr. Rubens, the Junta lawyer, estimates the American interests in the surrendered territory at over $30,000,000. This is more property than the Cubans own in that province, and it is too valuable to be exposed to the danger of civil disturbance. If the Cubansdesire recog- nitior from our Government the way for them to ob- tain it is to march against Havana, and by action in open and honorable war show that their troops are capable of constructing military roads, fighting battles, maintaining discipline, and performing other deeds that are required of the armies of civilized na- tions. The fact is worthy of note that several prominent Republicans have not announced themselves as can- own breast and died with every evidence of the most absolute earnestness didates for the governorship. With nothing but Maguire in the way, the prospect is tempting. | interest has dictated the course we have pursued. BUILDING AND LOAN @SSOCIATION COMMISSIONERS. | HE California State League of Mutual Build- ing and Loan Associations should lose no time in taking energetic steps toward reforming or abolishing the present worthless and expensive State Board. of Building and Loan Commissioners. The league should be prepared when the Legislature as- sembles, next January, to have a bvill introduced which will amend or repeal the present law, under which a building and loan association secretary, like Alsip of Sacramento, can rob shareholders without danger of detection or exposure from the salaried State officials, under whose supervision these associ- ations are placed. At the second annual convention of the State League of Mutual Building and Loan Associations one of the delegates predicted that the position of Commissioner would be sought for and filled by poli- ticians utterly incompetent to make an expert exam- ination of. the books and affairs of a building and loan association. The bill prepared by Mr. A. Sbar- boro of this city, and adopted by the convention in October, 1802, provided for the appointment by the Governor of only ome Commissioner, who should be thoroughly competent to discharge all the duties of the office. Several delegates in the convention commented upon the difficulty the Governor would experience in discovering a man properly equipped by ex- perience and talent to fill the role of Commissioner. Governor Markham, instead of being appalled by | the difficulty of finding ome expert in the business, suggested that the bill should be so amended as to make it #wo Commissioners, and also a secretary, which was accordingly done, and he thus found snug berths for three of his political friends, whose ca- pacity and fitness for the office time alone would de- velop. Politicians’ ways of solving problems are not likely to impfove (as officers and stockholders of building and loan associations have, no doubt, by this time discovered), and so it will continue that twoCommissioners who know little or nothing of the business will draw comfortable salaries for per- mitting their secretary, an expert with half a Com- missioner’s salary, to do nearly all the work of the office. No wonder then that the secretary is tempted, when in the discharge of official duties, to add to his salary by accepting remuneration as a non-official ac- countant from the party whose interest it is to ob- tain a favorable or whitewashing report. The law should be amended so that no one could be ap- pointed Commissioner unless competent to expert books and accounts of building and loan associations. One Commissioner is enough to do the work, be- cause experience has shown that the secretary is prac- | tically the commission. He should be compelled to give his undivided attention to the duties of his office, and not be permitted to engage in any other business during his term. These amendments are right in line with the ideas of the men who drafted the original bill, which self- seeking politicians subsequently altered to suit their purposes. The expenses of this commission are saddled on the building and loan associations of the State, and stockholders are chafing under the burthen. They feel it the more when they realize that their money does not bring them the protection or results ex- pected. The stockholders of the building and loan associa- tions of California can count upon the earnest co- operation of The Call in their efforts to remedy ex- isting abuses. THE AGNEWS SCANDAL. UR efforts to let the light in upon the scan- O dalous management of the Asylum for the In- sane at Agnews has, as usual, brought the $30,000 railroad contract organ to the front as a de- fender of corruption. This is not at all surprising, since that boodling sheet would be out of its element without some unsavory job of throwing dust in the eyes of the public on hand. The fact that the con- tract organ is now belittling the charges against Dr. Sponogle and his subordinates, and charging their accusers with corruption, is only an additional evi- dence that its genius for chicanery in compelling it to engage in every dirty mess on the wrong side is overpowering. To those who have perused The Call’s exposures of the Agnews Asylum rottenness we need say noth- ing. Extreme care has been taken in preparing the articles to publish only verified facts, attested by com- petent witnesses. Nothing resembling prejudice or Our purpose, as the work itself shows, has been to illuminate a regrettable scandal, which has long been public property, for the purpose of bringing about a reformation. The statement of the organ that somebody’s interest has effected the exposure is characteristic of a sheet which blackmails railroad corporations, and, after receiving $22,000 for twenty- two months’ silence, sells out to some other party and repudiates its contract. A boodler who will not stay bought is capable of any infamy. It is not necessary to comment extensively upon the treatment accorded to the Agnews scandal by the contract organ. The degraded position it assumes could only be the result of a corrupt motive, and there | is reason to believe that it has been sold out again. The organ stamps the scandal as the result of a “po- litical quarrel” between two Democrats, and inti- mates that one of the Democrats has a little the bet- ter of it because he has been able to call a few Re- publicans to his assistance. Its attempt to create the impression that Boss Rea of San Jose is taking sides with The Call in this matter is dictated by the same spirit. The sheet desires to belittle the charges as as preliminary to a whitewashing investigation, the foundation of which it is laying in its usual boodlesque style. The charges published by The Call, however, can- not be brushed aside in this way. They disclose scandalous management at Agnews, and somebody will have to give them attention or other reputations than that of Dr. Sponogle and the contract organ will suffer. If they are left for the next Legislature to investigate a great deal of embarrassment may be experienced in keeping politics out of the asylum. In our opinion the Governor and State Lunacy Com- misgion should give the Agnews institution a fair and honest overhauling, notwithstanding the cold water that will from now on be thrown upon the affair by the railroad contract sheet. A thorough cleaning out will be best for the people and all par- ties concerned. T Oakland survivors of the recent explosion object to the rebuilding of a death factory in their midst, and perhaps with some show of reason. Everybody recognizes that bodily dissolution is inevitable, but the prejudice against being dissolved all over the country is universal. .If Arneri::ans fail to remember the Maine now they will be obliged to put in some time wondering what we are fighting for in Cuba. | ago, the great habeas corpus principle, | he may at last be induced t6 drop some | mentor, by the employment of every THE POLICE TORTURE CHAMBER. OCHNER was under a fire of cross-examination all day yes- terday, but he stuck to his orig- inal story of the tragedy. Last night he was taken to the Re- celving Hospital, and given a narcotic to settle his nerves.” This is not a passage from one of Gaborleau’s famous detective novels, nor is it even a quotation from one of Zola’s eloquent denunciations of French judicial methods. It is simply a plece of plain, every-day journalese, taken from the columns of The Call Similar statements have appeared in other newspapers in this city. For sev- eral days this informal and illegal ex- amination has been %going on, and even the police themselves can hardly deny the fact. Let me state at the outset that I have nothing whatever to do with the gullt or innocence of Lochner. Wheth- er he did or did not strangle Mrs. Car- penter, whether his character be clean or unclean, is not the question to be considered here. In the light of true Justice, every man is innocent until he is lawfully found guilty. What I want to know is—Who ap- pointed Chief of Police Lees a Judge d'Instruction? It is significant that there is no English word to express the office, the institution being peculiarly French. By what right, moral or con- stitutional, does a mere Captain of Police assume the authority to intro- duce, into this free land, one of the most pernicious of the many bad feat- ures which so markedly distinguish the Latin from the Anglo-Saxon sys- tem of judicial administration? More than seven centuries ago the barons of England met at Runnymede and wrested from an ignc..e and un- willing King, the Magna Charta, which through all these centuries has been the mainstay of Anglo-Saxon liberty. True, it was but a victory of the nobles over the Monarch, the great mass of the people still remained in the same wretched and enserfed condition. But the lesson was not lost upon the na- tion, and from that day forward every modification of the unwritten English constitution meant the imposition of further limitations upon the Kkingly power. And so, three hundred years which was but rudely outlined in the Magna Charta, was crystallized into an Act of Parliament, to which the faith- ful Commons, using their power over the royal purse as a lever, wrung the reluctant consent of the weak Charles 1L 2 Thus, through the ages, our Anglo- Saxon race has ever been in the fore- front of freedom, has ever been first, and often alone, in the task of ennob- ling and raising the enslaved of the world to a sense of their o.'n manhood. To-day Europe notes with astonish- ment, not unmingled with awe, the fact that this rreat nation has entered actively upon the same noble crusade. ‘We are risking the lives of our noblest and best, we are pouring forth our treasure like water, in a cause which seems to the Latin races Quixotic, be- cause, forsooth, they have never learnt the true mear ag of the word liberty. These natlons, crushed under their weight of military despotism, look on in sullen protest, yet none dare inter- fere, for they know that it is not only the United States which they will have to fight when the cause of humanity is at stake. By the side of the great struggle which is now going on, the case of a miserable wretch like Lochner may seem about as important as a worm on Mount Shasta. Yet his treatment by the police, and the treatment of many others like him, indicates a growing danger which the people of the United States cannot afford to neglect. Hav- ing never known the burdens of tyr- anny, having never been oppressed by cruel and unscrupulous despots, the cit- izens of the Union are apt to be lax in the watchfulness whnich alone can purchase true freedom. When the thir- teen States of the new world wrested their independence from England, it was with the view of increasing rather than restricting the liberty of their citizens. All the best features of the English constitution, and among them the great habeas corpus principle, were embodied in the American law, there to remain for all time, as a significant tribute to the nation from which we inherit our laws and our language. And since the creation of the American con- stitution nearly all its best features have become part of the law of “ng- land, so that to-day there is practically no distinction between the freedom which each State grants its citizens. The difference is one in name only. How is it, then, that the people of this State sit quietly quiescent, while an irresponsfible police official violates at his own sweet will the first princi- ple upon which the individual freedom of each citizen is based? It is not the first time that Chlef Lees has done it. We read of the same thing whenever the Police Department, in its bungling way, is striving vainly to unravel some great criminal mystery. We hear of this method, which is commonly known as the “sweating process” being tried every time a miserable being, who may or may not have had anything to do with the case, is unlucky enough to fall into the hands of the police. If the | President himself were to openly vio- late the constitution in such a flagrant | way the whole nation would rise in re- volt, and, therefore, I can hardly see why the license should be allowed to a petty police captain. Apparently, Chief Lees’ one idea of detecting crime is to select some indi- vidual whom he vaguely thinks might have had something to do with the case. He openly defies the law by Kkeeping the man under arrest without bringing any formal charge against him, and then, from sheer inability to concelve any better detective plan, re- sorts to the sweating process. Day after day the suspected individual is brought from his cheerless cell to the captain’s cozy office. There he is bul- lied and brow beaten, cross examined in every possible way, in the hope that phrase which may be twisted into a confession; or to give some hint which may furnish the detectives—groping blindly In their inability to do their own work for themselves—with a clew to the real identity of the murderer. For the suspected man is rarely the real offender, and the police, in most Instances, know it. Except for the fact that Chief Lees does not use the thumbscrew and the rack, the red hot pinchers and the boil- ing ofl, the plan is really a revival of the barbarous “Question under Tor- ture.” It was the duty of the tor- cruelty which dfabolical ingenuity | could devise, to wring some sort of | confession from his victim. Chief | Lees, , employing the more humane | modern methods, does much the same | thing, and worries his victim with | questions, cows him with threats, until, | as in Lochner’s case, the man’s mind is | wrecked, and he is reduced to a condi- | tion verging on insanity. The only | difference is that the tormentor of the medieval dungeons was a properly ap- pointed official, holding his office in a Perfectly constitutional way. What he did was wrong, horribly wrong, from our point of view; but still, judged by the standard of his times, it was leg- ally right. Chief Lees, on the other hand, is adopting medieval methods without a shadow of justification, his torture chamber is more alien to the spirit. of the nineteenth century than the dungeons of the Bastile were to that of the sixteenth. If we are really going to adopt this French system of secretly examining prisoners and suspects before a Judge | @’Instruction, let us do it legally and with all proper checks against abuse. | Let us appoint able, upright men m! conduct the examinations, and let us above all, repeal the portions of our law which provide that every man ar- rested has a right to be tried in open court at the earliest possible moment after his arrest. Let us give Chief Lees, by a formal statute, the auto- cratic power he now illegally assumes. Let us give him the right to arrest any | man he chooses, and to keep him in | the tanks as long as he likes." Let us do all these things openly, so that all the people may know what is going on, and may realize the despotic power which they have unheedingly allowed the Chief of the Police to assume. J. F. ROSE-SOLEY. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. O. Hilton of Dawson is at the Occi- dental. Judge Ed C. Hinkson of Sacramento is stopping at the Grand. Senator E. C. Voorhies of Sutter Creek is staying at the Palace. Marion de Vries, the Rrepresentative to Congress, is at the Occidental. Robert Barton, proprietor of the Fresno Opera House, is at the California. C. Jesse Titus, proprietor of the Golden Eagle Hotel, is stopping at the Palace. J. C. Needham, the well-known poli- ticlan, of Modesto, is stopping at the Grand. Dr. F. K. Ainsworth of Los Angeles ar- rived yesterday and is stopping at the Grand. G. Myers, the well-known mining man of Fort Jones, is a guest at the Occi- dental. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Bayliss and daugh- ter of England are staying at the Occl- dental. E. Jacobs, a prominent business man and banker of Visalia, is registered at the Occidental. mam:mmang o o THE EFFICACY & & OF SHOULDER % ¥ STRAPS. bl days ago he don- OO OB 1103 njs complete uniform, and resplendent in braid and tinsel promenaded about the Palace Hotel court to the admiration of men, women ana hotel clerks who form a class of their own. The colonel was dressed for the flag ralsing at Camp Barrett. It has been some time since the colonel regaled him- self in all his military finery, and he felt uncomfortable. He himself confessed to a mal d'aise feeling which, howgver, did not last long. At first ““Chad” hid behind the massive wooden pillars that decorate the west end of the court. He soon dis- covered that he only invited notice by trying to avoid it, so he came out in the open and braved the raillery of his friends. In the midst of a personal and silent narration to himself of great and heroic deeds performed on the battlefield, the colonel was interrupted by a stranger, who, spying the insignia on his shoulder straps, addressed him in an apologetic manner and inquired about the army and when the colonel expected to get away to Manila. The colonel did not have time to disillusionize the stranger, who was flattered by the pliant affability of the distinguishéd officer. The military man was invited to drink. He replied that he seldom drank, and then only on occa- sions. The stranger begged that this be one of the occasions, and the colonel re- lented. Then followed an invitation to lunch. No, the colonel rarely lunched except on occasions. This proved to be one of the occasions. The stranger knew of a par- ticular vintage that he was positive would please the refined taste of such a con- noisseur as the colonel must be. A goodly quantity of objections were in order from the military chair, but they were swept aside by the other. Lunch finished the two started to walk down the “line"— the colonel happy with all things and con- sclous of the fine figure he exposed to all the Market-street world, the stranger elated and overjoyed that he could be seen arm in arm with such a distinguished looking man, and a colonel at that. Mr. Chadbourne had a very pleasant after- noon. He was not allowed to separate himself from a shekel. He will wear those glittering spangles soon again. Colonel F. S. Chadbourne is now a strong be- liever in the effi- cacy of regimen- tals. A few Nathaniel Greene and Thomas G.| ‘Walker, of Watsonville, are registered at the Grand. David F. Walker, a well-known capital- ist of Salt Lake City, is visiting this city, accompanied by his wife and family. Judge Charles C. Jones and Willlam Beckman, ex-Railroad Commissioner, of Sacramento, are stopping at the Grand. J. R. Hebbron, formerly a member of the State Bdard of Equalization and a prominent cattle man of Salinas, is at the Grand. Philip M. Lydig of New York arrived in this city last night. He has recently re- ceived the commission of captain and will be assigned to duty at once. Captain H. C. Osborn, a well-known politician of Los Angeles and a recent appointee to the Marshalship of South- ern California, is a guest at the Palace. William Bodie, representing a big hot establishment of Saaz, Bohemia, is in this .city on a tour of inspection for the firm which he represents. He i{s commis- sioned to both buy and sell hops in large quantities. A VETERAN’S LAMENT. O, for the boys of the old brigade, 'Who fought in the ranks of Lee! Who charged the columns when Sherman made With his legions for the sea! But the grasses of forest and fleld and glade Wave over the boys of the old brigade! 0O, for the boys of the!é\ld"?r:g;de. 'Who fought by my side that day When we battled for victory blade to blads, And the ranks at our rush gave way! But lone in the silence and shadow they're lal And the grasses wave green o'er the ol brigade. i O, for the boys of the o!:i brigade! ‘And the leglons seem to come From a_thousand graves, llke breastworks made, And march to the rolling drum! Like the shadows they march, and like shadows they fade— The ghosts of the boys of the old brigadel And God rest the boys of the old brigade, And hallow the turf that lies Flowering over each crimsoned blade, And over their dreaming eyes. And the stars of God on the heights arrayed Be sentinels over the old brigade! —Frank L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitution. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, TWO WRECKS—W. J. ‘I((.é Cltty. NTh; Al was wrecked af eal thaP;‘,mzfiask'gogugust 28, 1889. 'The Idaho was ‘'wrecked at Vancouver, November 29, TO BATAVIA—A. S., City. By the usual mail routes which aggregate 18,056 miles from San Francisco to Batavia, Java, a letter is about forty-six days In transit. ADVERTISEMENT—A. 8., City. Ta place an advertisement in a paper pub- lished in Java call on one of the news- papers agencies, the address of which can be found in the classified part of the city directory. TO, ENLIST—P. D., City. If you desire to enlist in the regular service of the United States army, make your applica- tion at the recruiting office at the Pre- sidio; if you desire to enlist in the volun- teer service, you will have to apply to officers of any of the regiments located here. If it is your desire to enter the hos- ital corps of the volunteers, you will ave to apply at the tent of the surgeon of any of the regiments. This depart- ment cannot_inform you if there is a vacancy in the volunteer hospital corps in this city at this time. LETTERS FOR SOLDIERS AND SAIL- ORS—W. D. S., Boise City, and several others. Letters intended for soldiers or sailors should be addressed to name, com- | pany, letter of the same, regiment, State from which it came and last known place where located, if a soldier; name, rank, ship and fleet, also last known station, if addressed to-a sallor. The postage is do- mestic postage. The Postoffice Depart- ment will forward by the most direct route. For a soldier, if a private, the su- perscription should’ be; _ “John Jones, Company A, Twenty-third Idaho Volun- teers, Manila, Philippine Islands.” 1If to a commissioned or non-commissioned of- ficer, the rank should precede the name, as ‘“‘Colonel Smith,” ~‘“Corporal James ‘Wilson,” etc. The same rule applies to the navy, for instance: “Sam_Bowline, United Sfates Steamer Texas, Rear mh;)al Sampson’s Fleet, Santiago de Cuba, 2. e Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® e e Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- . gomery street. Telephone Main' 1042, ————— Desirable Wedding Presents. Onyx Tables, Banquet Lamps, Parlor Pictures, Ladies’ Purses, Traveling Sets, Wave Crest Ware, etc. Beautiful goods and moderate prices. Sanborn, Vall & Co., 741 Market street. . e At a Macedonian wedding it is custom- ary for the bridegroom to lead home the bride by a_ halter. 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