The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 27, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1898. Call ..JULY 27, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. [SESSESASSISESSSSBSTTE SO S ESBEUY Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. Lot ute Ui ie i s Losle So i .Market and Third Sts., S. F. Main 1868, EDITORIAL ROOMS... 217 to 221 Stevensen Street Telephone Main 1874, ¥HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND S8UNDAY) ts served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 66 cents. YTHE WEEKLY CALL ©AKLAND OFFICE .908 Broadway SEW YORK OFFIC] Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (. C.) OFFICE.. +..-Rigge Houes C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE... Marquotts Buflding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertlsing Representative. One y by mall, $1.59 WRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clook. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 616 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o’clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2991 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open unth 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, opem unti 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana ntucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS Columbia—*“A Gallant Surrender.” Aleazar—“East Lynne Morosco's—“The Two Orphans.” Tivoli—"The Beggar Studens.” Orpheum— Vaudeville. The Chutes—Zoo, Vaudeville and Cannon, the 613-pound Man. Olympia—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Specialsies Sutro's Baths—Swimming. El Campo—2fusic, dancing,boating, fishing, every Sunday. Excureion to Santa Cruz—Sunday, July 8L AUCTION SALES. By H.J. Leutholts—Friday. July 2§, Candy Store, a4 863 Market street, at 11 o' clock. E has made an intelligent study of the situation. It has not only printed accurate news from the front, but has endeavored with more than gratifying success to foreshadow the outcome of army move- ments as indicated by the logic of events. Thus it ann ced where, in its belief, General Miles would land in Porto Rico, and had enough confidence in its judgment to publish a picture of the place. The picture was also accurate. Circumstances sustained the conjecture. General Miles had not announced his plans in advance. The War Department had guarded them carefully, and yet an s of the situation made plain that there only one course for him to pursue. The Call merely assumed that he would follow this course, in- stead of attempting another, which eould but result | It is not the habit of this paper to venture zard gue! RESPECTiFOR THE FLAG. WHERE MILES LANDED. VER since the beginning of the war The Call | LL over the city the national colors have been fiying for months. The flag floats above pub- lic buildings, from lofty staffs without number any residences it has been unfurled. 1g. It shows an American spirit sion by the crisis through which the country is passing. But there is still something )t ng. Many of the flags put in place weeks ago have ived no attention. Buffeted and tugged at by the breezes during the day; they have been left out at night, exposed to the fogs and mists. As a re- have been soiled, and in instances not only hipped to tatters, but the remains do not present to ve the inspiriting red, white and blue. On the the colors have merged to a draggled ion hardly suggesting the flag. This strikes the observer as neglect. here is no particular reason why the flag should fly after night. Let it be on view during the day. Let it catch the glint of the morning sun and throw its shadow eastward when the sunset gun booms at the Presidio. Then it should be taken down. To see it flaunting torn, bedraggled and forgotten is worse than not seeing it. The impression created is that enthusiasm has passed, and that the impulse which caused the flag to be run up was momentary. Common sentiment protects the flag against dese- cration. It is forbidden that one should deface it. And in exposing it to the elements to be shredded, stained, raveled, to become only a hint of what it was when first displayed, is a form of desecration. f\ of Europe will not permit the United States to keep the Philippines. So far as known, this country has not asked their permission. It does not care what they desire, and will go ahead on the lines A and in front of h 1 this is grati ar used to expre rec NOT ASKING PERMISSION. GAIN there comes the report that the powers which seem wisest, regardless of Kaiser, Czar or any | other variety of potentate. There is a strong party in this country opposed to the taking of the Philippines. They object to it as a matter of policy. They think it contrary to the spirit of the constitution. But even these do not weigh the opinions of the “powers.” deed, that in attending to affairs which concern them- selves the powers will be amply employed. In com- mon with the rest of America, they resent the im- pertinence of interference. Perhaps the United States will not keep the Philippines. It may be the conservative element will prove dominant, and that the impulse toward territorial expansion will never get further than a vague and unformed ambition. But there is one way in which Europe can force | the United States to keep the islands, and this is to emphasize the dictum that the United States must give them up. We are not looking for trouble. There is no chip on our shoulder. The nation prays for honorable peace. But there is not in all Europe a nation big enough, nor a combinatfon big enough, to tell us what we shall do. This is our fight, un- sought. It is American blood that 1s being spent; American money pays the cost of campaign. We want no advice, and we will not tolerate orders. e e Naturally enough the Spanish have ‘been violat- ing some of the rules of surrender. If there are any rules they do not know about they have only to be told of them and they will with the same cheerful celerity violate these also. —_— John Sherman should not submit to interviews, and his friends ought to guard him against the tempta. ticn. There was a time when his opinion was of value. Cubans are now afraid of Amerlean annexation, but if they were not scared about this they would be torn by fears of something else. The war has developed the singular and pleasing fact that every regiment is a crack organization. They think, in- | THAT WOODLAND FELLOW. THE editor of the Woodland Mail, who volun- teered to serve his country in a military ca- pacity, with a string to his patriotism, has been leit unnoticed, until he should fill out the catalogue of his deficiencies in decency and good character. In a recent issue of his paper he seems to have finished the list, and we pay him now final attention. He publishes a telegram sent to him from Carson | City, Nevada, dated July 23, as follows: “Sam Leake of The Call asked his Carson cor- | respondent to find out the names of the four Wood- | land men who refused to muster in.” The editor thereupon says: “This demonstrates the malignant spirit of this man Leake and the Budd organ he is running. He seems bent on persecut- ing the Woodland men who defied his boss, Jim Budd.” Now let this fellow take a look at himself in the mirror of the facts. On July 22 it was wired from Carson that “six members of Company A failed to muster in to-day, having skipped out. ~All of them came from California originally.” Anxious to save the credit of California by spot- ting these six skulkers, and by getting their names to make the responsibility personal and lift it from the State, The Call wired its correspandent at Carson | this dispatch, see files of Western Unfon office: “Davis, Carson, Nevada: Send particulars failure | members Company A to muster in, giving names and places they came from. CALL? This was filed at 12:30 a. m., the 23d. It made no mention of Woodland or any place, even of the State, and by using the word “places™ proved that no one place was in mind. The answer published | for Governor and Congress at the same time. | know of no instance in which this has been done, but in our issue of the 23d gave the names of the men, said they were hoboes, picked off brakebeams at Reno and Winnemucca, who enlisted to get a few square meals, and giving their residence as California. This relieved the State of responsibility for the va- | garies of a lot of tramps, and the incident closed, un- til it was reopened by the editor of the Mail, who persists in showing a fellow feeling for skulkers by taking up their cause and abusing all who rebuke | them. To go back to his grievance. He was an enlisted man in the Woodland company. The Governor of | | €alifornia, by virtue of his legal authority, appointed the officers of the company. This was seized as a | pretext by the editorial warrior to escape from the | service with a whole skin, which he seems to value | | more highly than he does his country. Industrious | cultivation of discontent gained recruits to his pur- pose, and many members of the company refused to | be sworn into the Federal service, and were after- | | ward mustered out of the State militta. The Gov- | | ernor is the commander-in-chief of the National | | Guard. He acted within his plain grant of author- | ity, and whether his act was distasteful or not to the ‘ men, their oath required their obedience to it. If | the commander-in-chief had withdrawn his action at their dictation, discipline would have been at an end. He did just what the President has been called on to do nearly every day since war was declared. Not every private in the ranks is expected to be | pleased with the brigade and division officers desig- nated by the President, but a soldier’s first duty is obedience and he has to accept the officers ap- pointed over him by the final authority. Perhaps no appointment was ever more strongly opposed than that of Brigadier General Harrison Gray Otis. The most bitter criticism of it came from California. But the President made it, and The Call, which had given the opposition a chance to be heard in its eolumns, at once set the example of good citizenship by cheer- ful acquiescence in the act of the final authority. The cditor of the Woodland Mail, under similar circum- stances, showed that in his makeup there is not a single fiber of good citizenship, nor in all his blood a drop that is reddened by patriotism. It is evident that he enlisted in a spirit of vainglory, for the tem- porary titillation of the flattery of his neighbors, and retreated on the first opportunity to back out of a promise he had not the courage to keep. With him. no doubt, went several gallant men whose sense | of duty was for the moment obscured by the griev- ance he invented and propagated. They were placed in a painful position they will long regret, and which their friends will gladly forget, if this scribbling coward, who had not the courage to swap his scissors for a sword, will permit the incident to pass into ob-~ livion. But the incorrigible poltroon seems deter- mined to glorify his skulk into a virtue, by lying | about The Call. If he be a patriot, if his enlist- | ment were in good faith, he has had opportunity to | prove it by re-enlisting in any other company. But, | omitting this proof, the world is warranted in the conclusion that the army is stronger for his absence from the ranks and that civil life is degraded by his return to it. His neighbors will long remember when Dungan, the dunghill, went briefly into busi- | ness as a gamecock, but soon skulked back to scratch 1 and crow in the same old plac INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY. T the present time we have among the political fliactions of the United States a Conservative Democracy, a Bryanite Democracy, a Fusion (Democracy, a Populist Democracy and a Social | Democracy, not counting the Coxey Democracy which still lingers in Ohio to some extent. Now we are to have another Democracy, if certain Los Angeles men have their way, for in that city there has been started a movement to form an “Industrial Democracy.” Under normal conditions an organization calling |itself “industrial” would be devoted to the pursuits of industry. If it did not undertake some vast work like the Nicaragua canal it would at least help its votaries to get a job at fruit picking. At all haz- | ards it would keep out of politics, for nothing is so | destructive to genuine industry as the political habit. It might, therefore, be supposed that the proposed | Industrial Democracy is to be an association to pro- mote the industries of the land on the Democratic ! plan of making every man his own boss, but that | supposition would be erroneous. We do not live under normal conditions, or at | least Democracy is no longer normal. Coxey’s army, it will be remembered, called itself an “industrial army,” though its campaign began and ended in a tramp, and its force dispersed when ordered by a policeman in Washington to keep off the grass. Therefore it will surpris: none to learn that the pro- posed Industrial Democracy of Los Angeles is to be, when organized, a political faction, and cherishes | the hope of eventually becoming a political party with a candidate for the Presidency and every local office. The platform of the organization is one of the ind designed to sweep everything of a public na- i!ure, except the streets. It calls for the public | ownership of all monopolies, including land and trusts. Now, imagine a government owning a trust and trying to make it work industrially. Next it calls for entire civil service reform and “the ap- pointment of all officials on their merits for the par- ticular office in which there is a vacancy.” Direct legislation, the initiative and the referendum, propor- ! sue of the campaign will be the railroad funding | to await the action of the Funding Commission and | year, and then only for the purpose of looking over | no stomach for fighting Huntington's Central Pa- tional representation and the imperative mandate fol- low, as a matter of course. Every new party in these days has to have those things, or it won't be allowed to play. Up to that point there is nothing in the platform of principles that in the slightest degree refers to work or industry. Just here, however, the framers of the instrument seem to have had a second thought, for in the typewritten copy of the circular sent to us by the organizers there is at this point inserted with pen and ink a fourth glank, demanding “immediate employment of the unemployed upon public work.” For the rest the circular contents itself with an ap- peal to the people for support on the ground that the time has come “for an honest declaratiop of is- sues that will deliver us from bondage to monopoly, and from industrial and political practices that are destroying the higher American life.” We have no desire to comment on the scheme as a political movement. The more kinds of Democ- racy there are the merrier life is, and the less impor- tant is it to fight any of them, since they fight them- selves with such a Donnybrook gayety. But as an industrial proposition we cannot forbear four words of reproofi the thing won’t work. MAGUIRE’S INSINCERITY. flN incontrovertible evidence of Judge Maguire’s political insincerity is furnished by his willing- ness to desert his post in Congress for a quest of the Governorship of California. This he is bound to do in the coming campaign, unless the Democrats can discover some plan by which they can run him We nothing is impossible to Democrats and Populists. According to the Democratic leaders the great is- amendment, worked through Congress shortly be- fore adjournment by the ubiquitous Huntington. Now that that amendment is law we do not exactly see how the Democrats are going to defeat it, but this also may be one of the things which are not impossible to the fusionists. To a rational man it would seem that the only thing now to be done is disagree with it. At all events, whatever the result, Judge Maguire cannot, as Governor of California, defeat Hunting- ton. If, as his admirers cay, he is the bete noir of the railroad magnate, his place is in Congress, where he can occasionally meet and give the old man a battle. Huntington visits this State once a his property. Unless Judge Maguire calls at the yellow building during office hours and sends in his card, he will never even see the millionaire, much less be presented with an opportunity of meeting him in forensic contest. The truth of the matter is, Judge Maguire, like all demagogues, is ready at any moment to abandon important work anywhere for a fat office. He has | cific funding schemes when there is a desirable office i in prospect. His predominant instinct is place | hunting, and no sacrifice of principle or neglect of | duty is too great to appall him. If Maguire were a man of steadfast purpose, devoted to the mainte- narce of the principles upon which he has founded all the reputation he possesses, he would stay in Con- gress and fight Huntington, instead of seeking an office in which his chief duty will consist of appoint- ing notaries and jobbing in patronage. His anxious desire to make a change at this time is proof positive that he knows no duty except the duty of at all times getting, if possible, into the best office in sight. SPAIN’'S DESIRE FOR PEACE. ADRID dispatches announce that immense M importance is attached there to the recent statement of Secretary Day favoring peace on terms that would enable the Spanish Government to avoid the necessity of continuing a war of despair. Spain, it is said, is keenly eager to find an opportun- ity for opening peace negotiations, and will gladly profit by the first that occurs. The recent repre- gentation made to the President by the French Min- ister confirms the report, and proves that Spain is really eager for peace. As a matter of fact, what Spain needs at this time is some official who will tell her plainly it is time to quit. It will be remembered that when the Maine was blown up in Havana harbor, the seaman on watch, a certain Bill Anthony, as soon as the shock was over, walked quietly up to the officer in charge and with the formal naval salute satd: “Excuse me, sir; I have to report that the ship is blown up and is sinking.” Doubtless the officer in charge was well aware of the fact from personal observation, but it was grati- fying to him to have it announced in the regular way, so that he could act upon it officially without disarranging the etiquette of the navy. What Spain requires at this juncture is some straightforward Bill Anthony, who will report in due form to the Queen Regent and her Prime Minister that the nation is blown up and is sinking. ~With such a report be- fore them, they would be able to deal wisely with the situation without an infraction of the high re- quirements of Spanish honor and punctilio. A proposition coming from our Goternment for the opening of negotiations looking toward the re- storation of peace would be absurd. We have every- thing to gain by pushing the war vigorously, and nothing to expect from an armistice. In all our dealings with the Spanish Government in reference to Cuban affairs, the Madrid officials showed them- selves past masters in the art of diplomatic evasion, delay and tergiversation. They could give us cards and spades and beat us at the game. Tt was not until the ultimatum of war was given that we at- tained a superiority over them. With that experience fresh in our minds we can hardly be expected to agree to an armistice for fur ther negotiations. ~When Spain sues for peace in the proper manner it will be forthcoming. In the meantime the Spanish Government should take note that the nation is sinking, and that if it desires to save anything from the wreck it must act at once. —— That Miss Schley should have been sent out of Spain is altogether proper. She went there to see the Queen Regent and discuss affairs of state. That she was quietly requested to make herself scarce, in- stead of being conducted to the Lorder and ordered to skip, is the first indication there has been of an effort on the part of the Spanish to be polite. Colorado is another State which resents the official report that it was lax in offering the number of vol- unteers asked of it. As a matter of fact, the only trouble with Colorado was that many more men of- fered their services than there was a place for. It is to be hoped that Miles will waste no time in splicing cables so as to talk with Washington. The war in the West Indies has been marked by a surplus of conversation. ; PER o Camara is to take refuge at Ceuta. It is fortunate THE CARPENTER MYSTERY—EXIT LOCHNER, The second act of the little police comedy based upon the tragic murder of Mrs. Sadie Carpenter was performed at the Coroner’s Court yes_terdayé and the result was, as everybody anticipated, the triumphant acquittal o Joseph Lochner. That is to say, Lochner was acquitted as far as it Is pos- sible for a man who has never been charged with an offense. Though In custody, he was legally free, yet practically, owing to the devious police methods of administration, he was on his trial before a jury for the crime of murder. The man, who has endured his anomalous position with wonderful pa- tience, realized this himself. He actually took the trouble to address tI:n'e Jury in his own defense, a proceeding which was entirely unnecessary, considering the complete ruin into which the police case against him had fallen. He pointed out, with logical clearness, that he had absolutely no motive for committing such a crime; he had never even had a .quarrel with Mrs. Carpenter, but had always lived on the best of terms with her. Further, if robbery had been his motive, where were the missing watch and the money supposed to have been in the murdered woman’s purse? They were certainly not on his person when arrested, and he had had no time to dispose of these incriminating articles. The fact that the night clerk did not notice Lochner come home that evening does not count for much, because night clerks in an establish- ment of this kind are frequently busy away from their offices. Indeed, the evidence showed that this particular clerk used often to make up the beds at night. Therefore, there is nothing to controvert Lochner's statement that he came home late and went straight to bed. In support of it we have evidence showing that at the time of the murder he was undressed. At first the police claimed that Lochner could not have had time to dress ba- tween his awakening by the night clerk and the arrival of the police. But, on the other hand, we have the evidence of two men in the saloon opposite, to whom Lochner announced the murder, wearing a nightgown, over which his clothes had been hastily thrown. It does not take an active man long to throw on a pair of trousers and a coat, and we may reasonably as- sume that Lochner had ample time in which to hurriedly dress himself. This clothing question deserves much more attention than the police have placed upon it. Mrs. Riley, whooccupied the room next to Sadie Car- penter’s, states positively that twenty minutes after the scuffle was over she heard the door of the murdered woman’s room slammed and footsteps as of a person wearing creaking boots proceed down the passage. How far the steps went she could not be sure, but as the hallway turns at a right angle at the corner of Lochner’s room, she could only have heard them for a short distance, whether the man went into that room or took his way down the stairs. Now, if this was Lochner, he must have been fully dressed, for it is ab- surd to Imagine a man putting on a pair of creaking boots and nothing else in order to slip from one room to another, over a few vards of hallway. But the point need not be discussed further. I have definitely settled the fact that Lochner did not wear creaking boots on the night in question. Boots that creak must be new and in good condition; hence the popular saying that squeaking shoes have not been paid for. Talking to Lochner in the courtroom yesterday, I asked him, casually, what kind of boots he wore that night. “The pair I have on now,” he re- plied readily, “I have no others.” I looked at the shoes. They were very old and very shabby, and had but the merest pretense of worn-out soles. Anything less likely to creak could hardly be imagined. This settles the question. It was not Lochner who slammed the door and creaked his way along the passage. If it was another man he must have either made his way down the stairs, or else have concealed himself some- Wwhere in the house. In either case it was strange that the night clerk did not see any one, for we are told by Mrs. Riley that she found him in his office shortly after the event. Could a man, carrying a large bundle, have passed unobserved and made his way into the street? Mrs. Anderson, the mother of the murdered woman, made a very significant statement yester- day, though it did not appear in evidence. She asserts positively that most of her daughter’s best dresses are missing, as well as her watch, and other minor articles. But most important of all, a very gorgeous silk bedspread is gone. Mrs. Anderson s absolutely sure her daughter would never have parted with this elaborate lace trimmed article, because once she refused an offer of forty dollars for {t. All these things, if done up together, would have made a very big parcel, a parcel so large that the improbability of any one carrying it unobserved out of the house at such an hour in the morning is very great. This bedspread, conspicuous and easily recognizable, furnishes us with a most valuable clew, and the man who finds it will have advanced far to- ward solving the mystery. If robbery was the only motive, he must have been a daring thief who, after murdering a woman, ventured to carry such & noticeable bundle away with him. If the things were not removed from the house, they ought to have been found long ago. Had the police acted promptly, and taken reasonable methods at the outset, much might have been discovered ere this. Of course it is easy to reason after the event, but that is no excuse for blunders. Let us imagine the course a skille¢ detective would have pur- sued if called on to follow up such a case. He would certainly have asso- ciated Lochner with the crime, but then he would have done it in a scienti- fic way. He would have treated the man purely as a witness, examined him closely, but would never have allowed him to suppose for a moment that he was suspected of complicity. Instead of shutting him up in prison, where he could furnish no possible clew, he would have left him at Iflberty' under close and skillful espionage. In short, ke would have given Lochnex: plenty of rope, never letting him know that he was watched, had been guilty of the offense, he would have been sure, sooner betray himself; he would have been compelled to take some steps of the stolen articles. The loss of the clothing, and especially the bedspread, should have been ascertair i long ago, and the whole house should have been closely searched for the things. If not within the bullding, then every pawn sho and second:hand dealer’s store should have bien ransacked; the detect(vep should have known no rest until they discovered the stolen property. = Probably it is now too late to follow up this lin. : If the man or later, to to dispose of investigation. one will doubt that Captain Less has bungled, and worst of all, he ;\To bungled in an illegal manner, openly defying the constitution. Th’e chanac: is, unless abler hands take up the work, that the murder wi place in the annals of crime as one of the unsolved mysteries. THE SPIRIT OF THE UNION. . Respectfully dedicated to Lincoln Post, No. 1, G. A. R tion of its manly conduct to the handful of “Rebs.” diers’ last tribute to the hero of the war. <. assume its -, in recogni- Paying the sol- The following patriotic poem was read by Major Otey, the w. Confederate officer, at the high jinks of the Bohemian Club e ago. Aside from its loyal ring, it is interesting by reason of which is fulfilled in these war times. ell-known ex- ighteen years its prophecy, Along the Rappahannock two mighty armies lay; One displayed the loyal blue, the other wore the gray. Yet the sentries hailed each other, when the autumn day was done, Then brother asked for brother, and father asked for sop : For in that mighty struggle that reft our native land, How many brave hearts perished beneath a kindred hand! How many loving mothers at night knelt down to pray 2 That God would watch their boys in blue, and save the ones in grayl And here beside the river, with its peaceful flowing tide, The sons of a loving mother were camped on either side, ‘Who spoke of home and kindred across tha tranquil strea;'n While their eyes put on a far-off look, like people in a éream. Their voices, too, grew tender, as they spoke of bygone years; And every word was freighted with almost boyish tears. 5 At length the words were uttered: “Is mother alive and well?” “She is!” “Thank God!"” across the stream in tender accents fell. And thus they,talked of boyhood, as on the banks they lay; > While far off In the glinting the bands began to play. One played “Off to Dixie,” to fight with Massa Lee; Another played “The Starry Flag " from the mountains to the sea. And then the heart's full tribute went up to heaven's dome, As the bands along the line swelled out “Home, Sweet Home.” Then from those mighty armies, in a chorus wild and grand, Rang out, “Three cheers for home—God bless our native land!” Their honest eyes grew brighter, while the welkin rang with cheers; Their faces (not less manly) became bedewed with tears— ‘Wore that night a happier look, as they grasped each other's hand, In that noble first-born Union, love for their native land. A Union that’s grown stronger with them through changing years; That some review with honest pride, and others see through tears— A Union firm cemented throughout the land to-day— For the boys in blue are building homes for those who wore the gray. And in our old Virginia home our mother wears to-day A knot of ribbons on her breast, of colors blue and gray, Beside her sits a veteran, who fought with Robert Lee, ‘While his brother’s bones are resting where Sherman reached the Sea. But when you speak of Union her face lights up with pride, And her hands rest on the curly heads that are playing at her side. And she tells of her dead hero, with a mother’s fond regret, And of her rebels, little boys, “Who'll protect the Old Flag yet.” EX-CONFEDERATE. tion in law or decency, LEES AND HIS STAK CHAMBER. Alameda Encinal, July 2. It is a good thing that there {s one paper in San Francisco which has the courage to attack the star chamber and relegated to the dark ages. They might ave been excusable in Australid, whe Teomin e 1 Australis, where experfence, but they are out of place in this day and generation. h and it is high | time that these medieval methods \TPL:X'E have had his first police | The Call is de- | there is something a Spanish admiral can take. secret inquisition methods of Chief Lees. The “small book” and the secret cells of “the tanks,” wherein men are locked up for days at a time without being allowed | to communicate with friends, have for years been a disgrace to the Police De- partment of San Francisco. Like the ‘“sweating’ system to which suspects are subjected in order to ascertain what the astute police are unable to discover of their own motion, they have no founda- serving of great credit for having at tacked one of the worst abuses in San Francisco. ———— THE FIRST DOUBLE-DECKER. The- first double deck ship built in England was the Great Harry, con- structed in 1509 by order of . enry VIIL It was 1000 tons burden, and cost $70,000, & sum worth more in those days than $600,000 now. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Dr. C. A. Devlin of Vallejo is at the Baldwin. Mrs. J. Philip Erle of Los Angeles is a guest at the Palace. L. J. Maddox, a prominent attorney of Modesto, is registered at the Grand. Arthur Lesynsky, a merchant of Stock- ton, registered at the Palace yesterday. Sam V. Rucker, prominent in politics in San Jose, is among the late arrivals at the Palace. C. R. Scott of Portland and Samuel Wil- son of Seattle are among the guests at the Occi al. C. H. Lux of San Jose came up from the Garden City yesterday and is a guest at the Occidental. James McCudden, the Government con- tractor at Mare Island navy yard, ac- companied by his daughter, registered at the Baldwin, from Vallejo, yesterday. Douglas 8. Cone, the Red Bluff banker, is at the Palace. He is one of the big- | gest ranchers in the State, owning some 50,000 acres of land near his home. General Manager Kruttschnitt of the Southern Pacific Company is away on his annual inspection of the road under his | control. He is accompanied by Superin- | tendents Agler, Wright, Burkhalter and Noble. Each superintendent has his resi- | dent engineer with him. The party will | travel eastward to Ogden and will con- sume some ten days in their work. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, July 26.—Charles L. Franklin of San Francisco is at the Hoff- man. Dr. D. D. Crowley of Oakland is at the Fifth Avenue. General W. A. Ris- tenpart and F. W. Clarke of San Francis- co are at the Imperial. —_—e————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA—G. | L., City. In the reports for 1897 are found the following figures fa bu;hgls of m; ain products of the United States an o Russia: United States—Corn, 2,160,000; wh ; oats, 657 i 76,000,000 cregate of wheat, rye, ous other grain: ; Poland, 14,- 5, Eurof 612,000; Weste | S i LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE—Furor, City. The lighthouse department is under elvil service rule. Those who wish to enter that service must undergo the exa.mu;la- = | tion. The positions and salaries at lij houses are: K $R00 a_yea rst, second and third assistdnts, $6 50 and | $500. There are employes on the tender, | Sith Salaries ranging from $180 to $860. The next examination will be in the fall. | Make application at the lighthouse de- | partment in this city application blanks. | for ROOT KNOT AND BLUE STONE— Henry A. Brainard, editor of the Pa- cific Tree and Vine, San Jose, writes as follows on the subject of blue stone solu- tion in the treatment of root knot: *“I write to caution against the use of blue stone solution in the treatment of root knot except when the trees are perfectly dormant. If applied to a freshly cut sur- face of the root while the tree has leaves the solution is taken into the circulation | and many e thus been Killed. | The Bordea re, composed of a of blue stone and milk of lime, be used without harm, even in sum- and it appears to have a good ef- S BIRTHDAY—G. L. Camp Merritt, City. .. the time that rge Washington was born, in Febru- , 1732, the old_style or Julian calendar se by Great Britain. The colo- | nies being under British rule, that cal- | endar prevailed, consequently Washing- ton was born on the 1ith of that month. In 1751 Great Eritain adopted the Grego- | rfan calenda-. and in the colonies as well | as elsewhere where English rule pre- | vailed dates were changed to conform | with the new order of things, and as there were eleven days’ différence in the calendar at that time, the date of Wash- ington’s birthday was advanced to the 22d, and it has since then been the recog- hized day of his birth. _——e—— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® ———— | Spectal information supplied dafly to [ [ business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. e e e | “I really don't blame these mature ac- | tresses who want to play Juliet,” the Cumminsville Sage said. ““Though Juliet is supposed to look about 14 there i8 no | doubt that she behaved like sixty.”—Cin- cinnati Enquirer. — e | “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” | Has been used over fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colle, reg- ulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 2ic a bottle, Rates Are Cut To Bed rock. Call at new ticket office of the Santa Fe route at 628 Market st. Very low rates to all Eastern cities. will pay you to investigate. —— e TO PORTLAND, OREGON, 48 hours. First cabin, $12; second-class, $8, including meals and berths. Steamship Columbia, 2000 tons, July 10, 18, 2, August 3. Steamship State of California, 1500 tons, July 14, 22, 30, August 7. Sail from Folsom-street pier No. 12, 10 a. m. No better or more modern steamships on Pa- cific coast. A cool and delightful summer trip; exhilarating sea air. The public is wel- come and invited to visit these ships while in port. Office 630 Market street. CORONADO—Atmosphere 18 perfectly dry, soft and mild, being entirely free from tha mists common further north. Round-trip tick- ets, by steamship, including fifteen days’ board at the Hotel del Coronado, $60; longer stay, $2 50 per day. Apply 4 New Montgomery st.. 8. F., or E. 8. BABCOCK, Manager Hotel del Coronado, Coronado, Cal. —_———— NEGLECT your hair and you lose it. PARKESR'S HAIR BALSAM renews the growth and color. PABKER’S GINGER TONIC strensthens the weak. RS S TR HORSES KILLED IN BULLFIGHTS The average number of horses killed in Spanish bullfights every year exceeds M?,y‘;’hlle from 1000 to 1200 bulls are sac- rificed. ADVfiRTISEMENTS. WHEN you buy anduseRoyal Baking Powder you have the posi- tive assurance that your food raised by it is not polluted by alum, lime, or any of the adulterants com- mon to otherpow= ders. At the same time the use of Royalwill give you the finest food at the lowest cost,