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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1898. 6 THE SILVER VIEW. @hw 3 @a’u HE Herald at Salt Lake secms —_— make public its confirmed and crystallized( opin- TUESDAY.. JULY 26, 1808 ion that Mr. Hearst and Colonelette William J. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propretor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. eledoibaa il it e ARl S S Ll e PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS. .27 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns wor 15 cents @ week. By mail $6 per year: per montp | o cents. THE WEEKLY CALL -One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE. 908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE......... Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative, ‘WASHINGTON (. C.) OFFICE...............Riggs Houss C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE..... -Marquette Building | C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. MRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. | B4l Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 229! Market etreet, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 25I8 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventl | ctreet, open untl, 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, opem | untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock, AMUSEMENTS, Columbia—*“A Gallant Surrendel Alcazar—+Eadt Lynne Morosco's—“The Two Orphans * Tivoli—"The Beggar Student” Orpheum —Vaudeville. TheChutes—Zoo, Vaudeville and Cannon, the 613-pound Man. Olympia—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Specialtles Sutro’s Baths—Swimming. El Campo—Music, dancing.boating, fishing. every Sunday. AUCTION SALES. By Frank W. Butterfield- This day, July 26, Library. at corner Market and Seventh streets, at8 0 clock p. m. A Frank Hood Gould, with his confederate Trustees of Agnews Asylum, Dr. Curnow and Mr. Hale, put in most of their time on Sunday at the asylum, where they had a conference and a lunch with Dr. Sponogle. As a result of the conference or the lunch they seem to have parted in a good humor. Curnow and Hale returned to San Jose and Jim Rea, while Gould, who has taken up his lodging at Agnews, remained with Dr. Sponogle. In the natural order of things the confederated trustees ought to have preserved for themselves the attitude of impartial judges of the charges recently | made against Sponogle and certain other employes | of the asylum. This, however, is a case outside the natural order of things. Mr. Hood Gould has a half- brother and something like a whole girl involved in the scandals, and, as for Curnow and Hale, they have heaven knows what at stake, for the San Jose boss has an ax above them, and were it to fall they might get such a shock as would cause them to lose their | heads altogether. So it appears that the three, instead of acting as judges in the investigation of the acts of the em- ployes of the institution under their charge, are to | appear as participants in the offenses to some extent. They are to stand or fall with their favorites, and | have prepared the whitewash beforehand so that the | accused parties may be made as decent looking as possible when the time comes for the three to pro- claim their innocence and embrace them in public. Whether this style of conducting an investigation of some of the gravest charges ever made against the employes of a public institution in this State will be permitted to pass unpunished remains to be seen. | The State officials will have something to say about it, and their saying may render futile all the cunning plans laid at the lunch and the conference on Sunday. In the meantime there is one thing to be guarded'| against. Mr. Hood Gould has shown as a Commis- sioner of Building and Loan Associations that /he knows how to make one kind of report to the Gov- ernor and then alter it to please his friends before printing it for the public. He may try the same game at Agnews. The State officials will have to watch Mr. Gould. While he is now in the position of legitimate game for an official shot, it must not be overlooked that he is one of these hell diver ducks that is good at dodging. THE AGNEWS SCANDAL. CCORDING to reports from San Jose Mr. e Only a few weeks ago a syndicate article by Mil- lionaire Hooley was going the rounds. It told people how to get rich, and, above all else, counseled honesty. Now that Hooley has failed, it appears that he had so much advice to give there was none left for home use. Agnews officials charged with misconduct have planned out just the sort of investigation they think would be satisfactory to themselves. It may be neces- sary to inform them that a whitewashing matinee per- formance is not the programme. The six fellows who enlisted in a2 Nevada company for the sake of getting Government rations were evi- dently victims of an acute form of hunger. Contem- plation of the rations has given more than one pa- triot pause. The chaps who while General Wheeler is at thefront fighting are trying to get into his Congressional shoes may succeed in defeating him, but they are not going to win the regard of people generally. BERGTOAnLL A niece of Commodore Schley is going to Madrid for the purpose of promoting peace. It is believed, however, that her uncle will be able to do more effective work in this direction. Somehow we miss from the Examiner the old tendency to praise General Shafter. Can it be that so small a thing as having its correspondents bounced from Cuba has displeased it? Even if, as Le Matin says, all Europe has agreed that the United States must not hold the Philippines, all Europe has forgotten to take the United States into the agreement. There is a dull thud coming, and when it has been heard the $25,000 head of Aguinaldo will be in the basket. That man is personally too many. Judged by the proclamations he is uttering now, Aguinaldo is as anxious to be king of dudes as Presi- dent of a republic. Shafter's expulsion of Examiner correspondents was merely a legitimate feature of the effort to stamp out yellow fever. Russian court ladies are now forbidden to smoke cigarettes, but their pink tea privileges are intact. There is no denying that the Cubans killed while attacking Spanish prisoners deserved all they got. R Garcia should take m‘eam for the suppression of | fall. That man seems to be a compound of optimism his ready letter writer, |army and navy cannot stand it. | it is evident the phrase will be made the watchword desirous to Bryan are fighting this war, that the President and the military and naval strategists of the Government are mere spectators, whose duty is done when they cheer as Colonel Bryan bests an army or takes a city, and Mr. Hearst soars superior to the rules of English grammar and composition, in communicating the vic- tory to his newspapers. It is with a shade of regret that we notice that the joy of the Herald over the feats of Colonel Bryan and Mr. Hearst is not a purely patriotic emotion. Its origin does not seem to be.fn love of country, but in hatred of The Call. The Herald is sure that The Call was displeased when Colonel Bryan went down into the tropics and took Santiago, destroyed Cer- vera’s fleet, threw Pando into a panic and made all those waters too hot for the paint on any ships but | our own, and therefore the Herald rejoices and re- | marks that seven millions of men who voted for | Colonel Bryan for President rejoice also. It further records the pleasure that is abroad in its office, from the rubber doormat in front to the out- pipe of the sink where the forms are bathed in a solu- tion of concentrated lye, because Mr. Hearst has es- tablished an edition of his N. Y. Journmal in Santiago, and has a letter from President McKinley flattering his enterprise. We regret, again, the motive that impels this pleasure, for it is advertised to be in the belief that The Call ig frantic with jealousy be- cause the President adds himself to the means used by Mr. Hearst for advertising his papers. The Herald is entirely wrong. Jealousy of Mr. Hearst's methods is not found among legitimate newspapers like The Call. Their success depends upon using the old-fashioned ways of common honesty and common decency. They are entirely un- affected by the presence of Mr. Hearst. The seller of good butcher’s meat is not hurt in his trade by the crows which fill on the carrion they find in the roads and fields. His customers will not eat the carrion and the crows will not eat good meat. It is so in | journalism. The Call has no market among those | who crave what is spumy and rank. That is Mr. Hearst’s field, and he fills it with the ardor of natural fitness. It is legitimate to praise him for it, too. | There is no reason why the President should not | commend Mr. Hearst for his zeal in his chosen work. If a man choose to purvey carrion, why it is all right | to approve him for sticking to it. Of course he makes | sacrifices and gets kicks, but the latter are part of his | assets. They advertise his business. At Santiago, for | instance, the military commander found it necessary | to tear down Hearst’s posters and drum him and all of his correspondents and employes out of the lines and to forbid their return and prohibit their presence in any camp of the army or any ship of the navy | within that military jurisdiction. This action, which has not been necessary in the case of the correspond- | THE CASE OF LOCHNER. HE inquisitorial method pursued bythe Chief of TPolice of this city in detecting crime is wholly wrong and ought not to be longer tolerated. Besides being illegal it is an outrageous violation of the principles of personal liberty. The method pre- vails in France and is pursued by the police authori- ties of Russia, but no other civilized nation in the world permits it—certainly none in which the per- sonal rights of the citizen or subject are a matter of concern to the Government. A sworn warrant is al- most everywhere required as preliminary to incar- ceration, and it ought to be here. Some days ago a woman was strangled to death in a Fourth-street lodging-house. No one knows who committed the crime, but Chief Lees has determined that a miserable fellow named Lochner who roomed in the house shall be tried for it. In pursuance of his method of convicting all persons whom he suspects, the Chief has placed Lochner in the “tanks” and sub- jected him to a rigid cross-examination. Denied the services of counsel, securely confined in a dungeon, and compelled to undergo the searching tortures of the detectives, it is really a wonder that the wretch has not broken down and “confessed” the crime. A weaker'man might have done so. Even an acute man might have so tangled himself up as to run the risk of a term in prison. Yet during his confinement no charge has been preferred against Lochner. He is just as much en- titled to his liberty as Mayor Phelan or the Chief of Police himself. He has simply been taken by force, put in the “tanks” and held for days on suspicion of having committed a crime with which there is no direct evidence connecting him. Had Chief Lees “suspected” Auditor Broderick or Assessor Siebe of this crime there is no reason why they might not have been subjected to similar treatment. Perhaps Lochner is really the murderer of Mrs. Carpenter. It is barely possible that the “sus- picions” of Chief Lees will in this case be verified. We do not care to discuss the facts of this particular case at all. The question we desire to ask is simply this: What authority has the Police Department for locking citizens up on suspicion and subjecting them to the torture of a one-sided cross-examination? Lochner’s liberty is just as precious to him as any other man’s. If the Chief of Police can lock Lochner up on suspicion he can lock Charles Webb Howard, | William Alvord, E. B. Pond or any other citizen. All he need do in any case is to send a policeman after the victim and order him incarcerated. If this method of detecting crime in San Francisco is to continue, if the “small book” and the “tanks” are to be used in this manner for verifying the suspicions of the Chief of Police—in short, if Chief Lees is to con- tinue to be the supreme arbiter of personal liberty hereabouts—it would be well to make his detective theories a subject of legislative consideration. At present he frames his own “rules.” This power, at least, should be taken from him. ents of The Call and the other decent press of the country, is exactly in line with the President’s letter | to Mr. Hearst. It certifies that he is a purveyor of | carrion, and that the article he furnishes is goodf carrion, because it is so offensive that the American | In the same sense The Call highly approves of Mr. Hearst and his en- terprise. We stand in line with the Pope, with Presi- dent McKinley, with Theodore Roosevelt, with Mr. Cleveland, 2all of whom have given Mr. Hearst a cer- tificate as a peerless purveyor of carrion. Now the difference between all of us and the | Herald is, that it insists that Mr. Hearst furnishes fresh meat. THE PARTY OF THE PEOPLE. ROM the responsive acclamation given by Re- | I:publicans generally to Chairman Mcl‘aughlin's: declaration of opposition to “boss rule, corrup- tion in politics and the domination of corporations,” those sentiments which catch the attention of the pub- lic by being uttered at the right time, in the right | place and in the right way. It is the best rallying | cry that can be formulated at this juncture, and will | be potent in rousing loyal Republicans throughout! the State. | As the time for opening the political campaign | draws nearer it becomes more and more evident that | the supreme issue in this State is to be one of elimin- | ating corrupting influences from our politics and es- | tablishing honesty and a patriotic regard for the pub- lic welfare. The tariff issue is virtually dead, and | the silver issue is dying fast. In support of neither | of these bygone policies could any candidate for office | hope to be elected in California this year. The people i are almost unanimous for protection and sound money. This being so the one question now before | our people is that of electing honest men to office and | making our State administration and our delegation in Congress truly representative of the great masses of the people. The Call has repeatedly pointed out that this is to be a year of independent voting, and not a yellow | dog year by any means. Being virtually relieved | from any immediate fear of further free-trade tariff | unkering or any fiasco experimenting with the mone- | tary system of the nation, the people will vote for | those candidates whom they regard as being freest | from any form of subjection to bosses, to corruption or to the domination of grasping corporations. It is in fact to be the people’s year,and the party which is most truly the people’s party will win. Chairman McLaughlin has very justly stated in an interview published in The Call yesterday that “our party as a whole in this State is more free from boss rule and outside influence than any other party, but we must eliminate from it every vestige of such in- | fluence and prove by our actions and our selection of “ various candidates that we and they are in fact of | and for the people.” The truth of the statement is | beyond gainsaying. The defeat of the bosses in Re- publican conventions means Republican victory at the polls. The triumph of the bosses would mean the defeat of the party. The State Central Committee has now done what it could to prepare the way for honest politics and to assure the accomplishment of victory. of the party in the coming campaign. It is one of | the fair field that has been provided for them. The primaries will not show victories for the people if the bosses are left free to control them. All loyal Republicans must therefore begin now to prepare for the contest. They must register. They must or- ganize. They must go to the primaries. They must vote for the election of free, independent and honest delegates. They must show that the Republican party is indeed the people’s party in practice as well as in precept and principle. — Perhaps the use of a hatpin in a fight between laun- dry ladies is legitimate. It is when a man is stabbed by this weapon that the rules of civilized warfare are violated. —_— Blanco is reported as making light of Santiago’s It now 1 rests with the rank and file of the party to profit by | e e % the issue, and the conference on the subject may have and general foolishness. Personal liberty has been the jealous care of all ages. Millions of lives have been sacrificed in achieving it. A century ago Sir William Blackstone said that the moment the power is left to any magis- trate “to imprison arbitrarily whomever he or his officers think proper (as in France is daily practiced by the Crown) there will soon be an end of all other rights and immunities.” This is as true to-day as | then. Yet the custom of jailing men without warrant of law prevails in this city. How many persons have been arrested and detained on “suspicion” by the Chief of Police during the past year? That is a ques- tion the Grand Jury should investigate. Usually the Chief is careful to lock up only poor and friendless citizens. But this fact ought not to influence ac- quiescence in the custom. The Grand Jury should make the Chief show his “small book” and open the “tanks.” Nobody knows at this moment whom he has locked up on “suspicion.” AFTER THE WAR IS OVER. UDGED by a European critic nothing could be more absurd than the proposed national con- ference called by the Civic Federation of Chi- cago to discuss the future foreign policy of the Unit- ed States. A debate by an assembly of private citi- zens, however prominent or eloquent, on such a sub- ject, would be regarded by a foreigner as of a mere academical nature—something like a village debating society expanded to national proportions. He would not be able to understand why any considerable number of men should take the trouble to participate in such a debate, nor why any organization should be willing to defray the cost of it. Its arguments and its conclusions are seemingly to be of no value. Congress and the President will decide in due time what is to be done in every emergency of our rela- tions with foreign countries, and the proposed grand conference so far as an alien can see will be no more than a species of oratorical circus free for all and go as you please. In the United States, however, we are accustomed to such conferences. They fill a large part in our political life, and in some respects are hardly less im- portant than Congress itself. It is through them that our people formulate opinions on new issues and arrive at definite conclusions. We have had them at every stage of our recent history to discuss each broad issue that has arisen. We have had slavery con- ferences, reconstruction conferences, tariff confer- | ences, money conferences, irrigation conferences, and now in the natural and inevitable order of things we are to have a conference to discuss the much-vexed problem of what we shall do with the colonies cap- tured from Spain. While the proposed meeting, like all others of a similar nature, will end in talk, it will not be wholly useless. The American people have at present but a vague idea of the factors in the problem they will have to solve when the time comes to determine what is to be done with our captured possessions. Accord- ing to reports from Washington the commercial or- ganizations of the country have as a rule urged the President to hold all the acquired islands as a means of extending our commerce, while on the other hand strong protests against such a policy have been re- ceived from other classes. These differences of opinion are mainly founded on differences of interest, but to some extent they rest on different conceptions ‘of the facts involved in the effect of removing some of them by eradicating popular misconceptions of the conditions of the islands and the responsibilities we would assume in annexing them. g The Chicago movement is, therefore, one to which we can look forward with considerable interest. It is only in America that the people meet to discuss in large assemblies the policy of our Government, but the custom harmonizes well with our gene- ral institutions and political processes. - What is said or resplved at Chicago will not settle anything, but it will help form public opinion; and public opinion in this country settles everything. At least there will be some dxfii:uhy in inducing the Spanish to accept the theory that the Oregon was at the fight off Santiago only in the capacity of spec- tator. A HOW T0 FAIL--A LESSON FROM LEES. B Thanks to Chlef of Police Lees' efforts, the mystery which surrounds the death of Mrs. Sadle Carpenter is deepening day by day. The evidence taken at the Coroner’s inquest held yesterday only Increased the gloom, and the inquiry, so far as it went, achieved no other result than to elicit from witnesses, male and female, a mass of. filthy, unprintable detail which can have no possible bearing on the case. Do the police imagine that they are going to find a clew to the crime in the sewers? Do they think that, from out this ..ass of garbage, they are going to pick one grain of relevant truth? If there ever was a case which required careful, artistic handling, it is the present one. The task of detection in this class of crimes is always difficult, often impossible. Witness the famous series of Jack the Ripper murders, which paralyzed Whitechapel with fear and defled the best efforts of the Scotland Yard detectives. It requires all the dramatic ingenuity of a Lecocq, all the subtle analysis of a Sherlock Holmes to arrive at the true solution of such problems. Of course we do not expect Captain Lees to rival either of these famous sleuths of fiction, but we may at least look for a little plain, ordinary common sense in his methods of procedure. The unfortunate woman, Mrs. Carpenter, who seems to have been above most of her class in intelligence and culture, lived in a milleu which is essentially favorable to the commission of such offenses. She roomed in a large house, which is literally, as the evidence shows, a den of vice. De- bauchery, by day time and night time, permeates the piace. Most of the witnesses whom the police have gathered together belong to the lowest class. Yet no one with any knowledge of human nature would dream of looking for the murderer within the walls of the building. The people who lived in it were admittedly vicious, but their vice was not of a kind which leads to violent outrage. It was too ignoble, too ‘retreating in its character; its votaries were too effeminate to be capable of such murderous passion. Look at Lochner, as he sits in his chair at the crowded inquest. He is a pure type of the degenerate, such as only great cities—where all that is worst in human nature focuses itselff—can produce. TUndoubtedly his ap- pearance has not been improved by his illegal detention in the tanks, com- bined with a week’s cross-examination and bullying by Captain Lees. Yet he is self-composed enough as he tells his ignoble tale. If he has any shame left within him he does not show it. His figure, when he stands erect, still bears traces of military discipline; his face, before dissipation marred its outlines, might have belonged to the fine, determined German type. He has the high, square forehead, the massive chin, the firm mouth and the some- what subdued nose of his race. But drink has played sad havoc with him; his eyes are weck and watery and undecided in color, while his hair is thin and patchy, and his mustache has lost that military trimness which s the delight of all Teutons. Of course one cannot look for elaborate toilets from out a prison, and doubtless, with careful grooming and decent dressing, Lochner could still be made quite presentable. In such a being, his whole moral fiber sapped with unmentionable vices, one does not expect to find much nerve. Yet if Lochner really murdered Mrs. Carpenter he possesses the most wonderful self-possession ever vouchsafed to mortal man. Freed from the bully and bluster of the police torture chamber, he gave his evidence clearly and collectedly. He even took up the rag which he claims was tied around Mrs. Carpenter’s throat, and though his hands shook slightly, showed by practical demonstration how the fatal knot was tied. He had an answer ready to every objection, he knew exactly which shutter in the room was open, so that sufficlent light entered to enable him to discern the murdered form of Sadie Carpenter, and the bandage round her throat. All the other witnesses told their tale with equal fluency. Indeed, this Wwas only to be expected. It was the natural outcome of the long series of dress rehearsals which Captain Lees has been holding during the past week. The Coroner's inquest yesterday was but the stage performance of an empty and unmeaning comedy which the police have been carefully preparing. Every one of the actors has been painstakingly trained; their cues are thoroughly known. So they said, their little parts with perfect ease and fluency, and the police, forsooth, expect us to accept this sort of thing as evidence. Apart from the illegality of Lochner’s detention and constant exam- ination, its utter folly amazes me. Supposing him to be guilty—and we are vet as far away from any proof of this as ever. If there were any weak points in his story, he has had ample time to find them out without com- mitting himself. He has read in the papers all that the other witnesses have to say about the case, and has been able to make his story agree in every point with theirs. Take, for instance, the light question, upon which Captain Lees has laid much stress. The police have tried to show that Mrs. Carpenter’s room was in darkness when Lochner and the night clerk entered it. Yet they claim that Lochner walked straight to the murdered woman's bed and untied the knot in the bandage round her neck. Obviously, unless he already knew it was there, it would have been impossible for him to do this in the dark. Now, if Lochner had been kept in complete ignorance of all that was going on, if he had not been fully informed of the statements which the other witnesses were going to make, a question like this might have been sprung upon him, when placed under examination in open court, with dis- astrous effect. But Lochner, thanks to the police, was fully prepared; he had no hesitation in stating that the upper blind of the center window was open, and that thereby sufficient light was admitted to enable him to dis- cern, outlined against the white pillow, the dark line around the woman's neck. Take another witness, Mrs. Riley, an abandoned woman, living in the same house. She claims to have heard a nolse, a gurgling noise, followed by a sliding sound, as if the bed was being moved slowly across the floor. How she could have heard a gurgle through two closed doors, and along a crooked passageway thirty-eight feet long, is not explained. Besides, the medical evidence shows conclusively that Mrs. Carpenter was not stran- gled by means of the rag round her neck, but was smothered with a pil- low or some other soft article. Persons dying under such conuitions do not usually gurgle. Then Mrs. Riley admits that she was entertaining a soldier visitor at the time, but she either cannot or will not disclose his identity. Why have not the police found this man? Possibly he might furnish the key to the enigma, or at least he could substantiate Mrs. Riley’s vague statements. She claims that the man heard the noise as well as herself, but that he asked her not to interfere, as he did not wish to get mixed up in any trouble. Here was a line of investigation which the police might, with advantage, have followed, had they picked up the scent at the outset. Now the trail Is confused, and it is too late to do anything. It remains to be seen whether Captain Lees has any further exhibitions of his Thesplan tactics to offer when the inquest is resumed to-day. J. F. ROSE-SOLEY. THE DUDES BEFORE. SANTIAGC. TheyTscgfled when we lined up with BLUE COD—Subscriber, City. ed They Sald we were dudes and all that; | scales, Theydl_magmed that “Cholly” and “Fwed- e ‘Wouid faint at the de of a hat! But let them look there in the ditches, Blood-stained by the swells in the van, And know that a chap may have riches ot b 2 et the courts for his discharge. | oned | downward or from below upward, without the ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. The blue cod has a rough skin, but has no MINORS IN THE ARMY-—F. §,, City. If a minor enlists in the army without the consent of his parents and against their will they may make application before They said that we'd wilt under fire, nd run if the foeman sald “Boo!" But a fellow may have a rich sire And still be a patriot, too! Look there where we met twice our num- er, ‘Where the life-blood of dudes drenched the earth! The swells who lle in their last slumber Prove what we are worth! They laughed when we sald we were go- ng, They scoffed when we answered the call; We migu. do at tennis or rowing, But as warriors—oh, no—not at all! Ah, let them look there in the ditches, Blood-stained by the dudes in the van, And learn that a chap may have riches And still be a man! —Cleveland Leader. — THE CHINESE INCUBUS. Editor of the San Francisco Call—Sir: ‘What a paradox is presented by the rul- ing anent the Hawallan Chinese. The Chinese are already in Hawall. Hawail has been made a part of the TUnited States, and yet it is held that the Ha- walian Chinese shall not be permitted to enter the United States. This interdict is not agalnst thelr entering as citizens, because they are not citizens of Hawall, bodily presence. Since they are already in how can they be prevented from com- ing in? I take it that to relleve our Govern- ment_from the perplexing anomalousness of this sftuation there may speedily be enforced wholesale deportation of Ha- walian Chinese back to the Ilowery Kingdom. It would seem that this is our only escape. If a Chinaman resident in New York applied to a steamship agency for a passage to San Ftancisco and pald for it.certainly there is no law by which he could be prevented from coming to the latter city. Would this not be equally true as to the Chinaman in Honoluli, since both that city and San Francisco are in the United States? JOHN AUBREY JONES. Fruitvale, July 23. —_——— ENGLISH CURRY. A simple English curry may he made of veal or lamb, as well as of chickon or or of rabbitt. For a veal or lamb curry select about three pounds of shoulder cut in neat square pleces. Browh them in butter, season and add a little Dbolling water. Let them stew until they are tender. Take up the meat, reduce the stock, thicken it with a heaped table- spoonful of flour and an even one o curty powder. Add a fried onion if flav s liked and strain the sauce pre- Ruad around the cooked meat. 4 ‘with a border of rice. but simply against their coming in in | f the | TO SAN RAFAEL—A. S8, Citv. The distance by steamer and rall from the ferry landing in San Francisco to San Rafael is eighteen miles, and the schedule time In covering that distance is one hour and fourteen minutes. A RED ROSE CITY—A correspondent to this department wishes to know in what poem can be found the line, A red rose city, half as old as time. Can any of the many readers or thi: - partment oblige? 8300 VISITING DAYS—Z. Z., Haywards, Cal. The Mark Hopkins Institute of Art is open to the public on week days from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. The admission fee is 25 cents each day except on the first Friday in the month, when there is no ch admission. arge for MAIL AT SAN QUENTIN—S. O., Tres Pinos, Cal. Malil Intended for prisoners at San Quentin is examined by the au- thorities, and if there is nothing objec- tionable in the correspondence it is de- livered. 1If there is it is withheld. TRANS - MISSISSIPPI P Al STAMPS—Stamp Fiend, City. qfsh'l; g&E nomination of the Trans-Mississippi postage stamps, commonly called the é‘(c)m.x:,;m.‘ lccexr;osi?on Stamps,” s 1 cent, o ‘nts, 8 cents, 10 cenls,’so cents, SECTIONAL PRESIDENT—S., City. It wids Abraham Lincoln who was called ““The Sectional President.”” This name was applied to him by the Southerners, who held that he represented, not the whole people, but only th, - tlon of the nation. L e e BONDS IN 18§1—B. L., City. On the 4th of February, one month before quoted at 90% and 5 per cents were not quoted. On the 4th of March the quota- tlons were 913 for sixes and $3% for b per cents, and on April 6 the quotations were 93 to 96 for 6 per cents. Per cents and §8% for 5 per HEAD TAX—A. 8., Marysville, Cal. There was a head tax in the United States on immigrants. In 1870 the Leglslature of Massachusetts granted relief from the operation of the tax to those who imme- dlately announced, on arrival, their In- tention to pass out of the limits of the Commonwealth, 1In 1§76 the Supreme | Court of that State declared the tax un- constitutional. CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION-A, S.,*City. Each branch of the Government that is under the civil service rules has a different time for the holding of ex- aminations. The time and place for the Surround | examination is posted in front of the of- fice of the branch of the Government in James | Buchennn retired from the Presidency of | | the United States, 6 per cent bonds were which it is to be held, and the fact is also announced in the newspapers. In. formation may also be had on inquiry ot the secretary of the department in whicn the applicant wishes to “ake the examina- tion. « THE TOBACCO CROP—The Smoker, City. The latest tabulated figures on the product of tobacco in the United States is from the reports of the Secretary of Agriculture for 18§. The figures t_h@:‘o given are 523,103 acres, vielding 406,678,383 pounds, valued at $27,760,739. The same authority gave as an estimate for 1897: Area, 5%,000 acres; product, 403,004,000 pounds; value, $24,258,000. SAMPSON AND SCHLEY—Subscriber, City. This correspondent writes: ‘‘Please explain why Captain Sampson was placed in command over the heads of officers like Schley and others higher in rank.” ‘A this department s not taken nén tha secrets of the Navy Department it cannot tell Subscriber why Satips wocd acting rear admiral and in charge of & fleet, The Secretary of the Navy could answer that question, but it i3 doubtful if he Wuulr}i Sk SEQUENCE IN CRIBBAGE—K. 8, Pinole, Cal. The following is the law of sequence in the game of cribbage: q e of the cards is king, queen, e e six, five, four, cnave, ten, nine, eight, seven, | e two; ace. The ace 1 not in_sequencs with 'the king and queen. The Kking, queen, knave and ten, though they each count ten toward thirty-one in p ¢ e ria in the order given. Thus: Knave, ten, ni are in sequence. If any three cards are | played in such a way that they ca reck- in order, either from above sequence intervention of another played card out of se- quence order, the player of the third card is entitled to mark three, called a run of three. If a fourth card is similarly played the pl e of it is entitled to a run of four; if a fifth card is similarly played a run of five accrues, and so on. If there is a break in the se- quence, and in_the subsequent play the break is filled up without ti intervention of a card out of sequence ord the player completing the sequence is entitled to a score of one for each card of it. It is not necessary that the cards forming & sequence should be played in the sequence or- der. Thus: A plays a four, B a deuce, A a five. B can then come in with a three and make a run of two, three, four, flve. After the three is played A can come in with an ace or a six, making a run of five, or with a four, making a run of four. But if any card not in sequence intervenes the run is stopped. Thus if four, deuce, five and five are piayed in this order a three a six will not come in, as the second five, which is no part of the run, intervenes. If A plays 6, B 6, A 7, A makes a run of 3: if B follows with a 5 he cannoc clafm a run of 3, as the second 5 inter- venes. AROUND, THE CORRIDORS. Dr. J. M. Blodgett of 1odl is at the Grand. Dr. J. A. White of Sacramento is at the Grand. R. O. Osgood of Butte City is at the Oc- cidental. C. W. Parker, a rancher of Kenwood, is at the Grand. Winfield R. Mére of Santa Barbara I8 at the California. G. G. Goucher, an attorney of Fresno, is at the Baldwin. Captain and Mrs. J. Walker of Fresno are at the Baldwin. P. L. Flannigan, a sheep rancher of Reno, is at the Grand. J. M. Sellick, a mining man from Chi- cago, is at the Grand. Captain E. P. Newhall, a mining man of ‘Washington, is at the Russ. G. M. Francis, proprietor of the Napa Register, is at the Occidental. HHHEAAET D & o Mr. Barling, the handsome gentle- o ONE y man who fre- 8 quents the Pal- L TOO MANY FOR i duenis the Pl fad HIM. 2 hours of the day =d & and certain hours DRULULRTLED of the night, bears the reputation of being a smooth- sailing and extremely good-natured man. His unruffled disposition allows him to smile at all things, which ne does with great eclat, but his eye-tooth of anger and passion is now cut. The other evening Barling, F. 8. Chadbourne, of a day's mil- itary fame, and two other kindred spirits were ensconced in a sequestered corner of the Palace bar hurling stories at one an- other's heads. Every subject under the sun had been exploited except personal misadventures. When this stage was reached ‘“‘Chad” begged to be excused from active participation and became an attentive listener. This is Barling's story: I was on the San Jose train the other day when some- thing snapped, and for about ten seconds I thought it was all up with us. As “it happened, nothing of a serious nature oc- curred and after a delay of *~» minutes the train continued its course. I had just fixed myself comfortably and was reading the evening paper when the peanut, candy, cigar and soda water butcher came into the car in which I was sitting, and with an audacity I have never seen equaled walked up to me and addressed me in this fashion: “Say, but you are a lucky one.” I wanted to read my paper undisturbed, so I made a quick, short reply: “Yes. was ineffectual, however, for he was at me again: “Do you remember the last ac- cident we had when you were with us?” Now I had no recollection of anything of the sort, but I was willing to damn my soul if I could get rid of this pest, so T sald “Yes” again. And then what do you think that fellow said? You can't guess. Well, it was this: ‘“You want to forget that as soon as you can and remember the Maine.” J. M. Engler, connected with the Slerra Valley Raliroad, is at the Russ. M. V. Monarchs, a distiller of Owens~ boro, Kentucky, is at the Palace. 0. McHenry, a banker of Fresno, wifs and family, are at the Occidental. - y he State John F. Carrere, secretary of t Lunacy Commission, is at the California. ! d Captain Lieutenant J. J. Meyler an Raymond Sulzen, U. 8. N., are at the Pal ace. A, P. Cross, George F. Dutton and C. M. Hunter of Los Angeles are at the Bald- s 1 tour of in y on the annual = lse,.fetcifiimfr”m Southern Pacific lines this city to Ogden. ‘rg:nry Hurtz has returned from a two weeks’ hunting and riding trip in Marin ty and is at the Palace. C?!m;\'z-uuschnm general manager of the Southern_ Pact H. Wallace, J.,B. Wright, B. Burkhalter and E. 8. Logan e Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.® supplied dally to 1 information Sup] P lipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- Fomery street. Telephone Main' 1042. o cdal which has just been pre- e "to M. Zola by his friends is six ehes in diameter, and bears on one side the profile of M. Zola, with the legend, e ke & M. Zola,” while on the othes HomIn Fepresentation of & thundere storm, with the sun peeping out from be- Storm, N Clouds. Across the face of the hind thne latter slde Is & phrase used by Foin i ong, ot his articles in ‘tavor o yvtua ruth approaching, ang Drevius. il stop it. Emhe Zola. 1k J e ing nothIn e The medal, which weighs five Pounds, was cast insield of being stamp= DU "order to avoid coples having to Seposited with the Government. The faw only exacts that “stumpe’ cotns «hall be deposited. No duplicate of M. Zota's medal will be made, but smaller Zecimens in bronza wili be stamped for the subscribers to the presentation fund. ——— e Rates Are Cut To Ped rock. Call at new ticket otfice of the Santa Fe route at €8 Market st. Very low rates to all Eastern cities. will pay you to investigate. 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