The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 6, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1898 TUESDAY... ...SEPTEMBER 6, 1898 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Bt e St ladiped Bl bun Loy Address All Communications to W, S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2IT to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.. OAKLAND OFFICE.... ivseesaneass..908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative, WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE -Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE.... .-Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. One year, by mall, $1.50 BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 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 untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2991 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1506 Polk street, open untii 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSE ENTS, Columbia—Lost—24 Honrs A Marriage of Convenience.” “The First Born"” and * Turned Up." Morosco's—*Shall We Fory Tivoll—* Lucretia Lorgla.” Orph Vaude New Comedy Th Alhambra, Eddy ter —*: The Leading Man.” and Jones streets—Vaudeville. The Chutes—Zoo, V ville and Spanish Bull Fight. Olympia—Co: Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Mechanics' Pavilion—The Irish Fair, Eutro’s Bathi air—Sacramento, September b. AUCTION SALES. By G. H. Umbsen & Co.—Monday, September 13, Real Estate at 14 Monwomery street, at 12 o' clock. DEGENERATION OF THE POUND. HE conviction in one of the Police Courts of Ta deputy pound keeper for having used vulgar | language in capturing a dog indicates that the | public pound is rapidly relapsing into its old condi- tion of inefficiency and disgrace. The evidence given in the case in question showed that this deputy entered a store on Fiith street in pursuit of a valua- | ble dog belonging to the proprietor, and upon being | remonstrated with for attempting to take the animal | replied in language at indecent and abusive.; A number of ladies were in the place at the time | and all were immeasurably shocked by the conduct of the official. When arrested and arraigned for the | offense, the deputy not only admitted the use of the | language, but repeated it in open court, on this occa- sion applying it to the Judge himself. A charge of | assault with a deadly weapon is also pending against | this deputy. It is alleged that he drew a pistol upon | the owner of another dog who objected to his| methods. | This is the old story over again. It is the public | pound in the hands of politicians who have no re- spect for the laws, but who are intent only upon making fees. During all the years in which the institution was in charge of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals there was not | a single well founded complaint of lawlessness or violence. But ever since the Board of Supervisors took the pound out of the hands of this society and | gave it to a political favorite complaints have been frequent. The trouble always was with the pound that hood- lums were given authority to scour the city in search of stray animals. Perhaps it would be difficult to | get easy going, respectable citizens to engage in this | business, but there is no reason on earth for confer- | ring the authority to impound animals upon hood- lums and blackguards. At one time the pound became so disreputable that it constituted a factor in politics. Boss Buckley placed it in charge of the late Jake Lindo, whose cruelty and lawlessness became so conspicuous that there was a general protest against his management. The hoodlums whom he employed used to actually break into corrals and release cattle for the purpose of impounding them, and almost every day they stole once dogs or took them out of the arms of their owners. The political downfall of Boss Buckley was largely attributable to Lindo’s management of the pound. There ought to be a lesson in this for the politicians who are at present running the city government. FOR MR. MAGUIRE'S INFORMATION. ANDIDATE MAGUIRE, naturally desiring to reach the people, presented through The Call of yesterday a long letter. Whatever of in- terest the letter may have contained, or whatever fal- lacy, there is no purpose now of setting forth. But the letter closed with a question to which answer is appropriate and easy: If Mr. Gage will look to the columns of the San Francisco Call of August 24, 1898 (published early on that morning and long before the convention had con- | sidered any candidate for office), he will find the entire ticket, as afterward nominated, duly published. Where aid The Call get the ticket? The Call got that particular information just as it had obtained the knowledge in advance that Maguire was to be the nominee of three parties, or at least of the fractions of three parties; just as it is now ccllecting data pointing to the inevitable conclusion that Maguire will be defeated. For days before the Democratic convention was held reporters for this paper were among the delegates and active politi- They made inquiries and weighed the an- swers. They ascertained the trend of party opinion and when the declaration was printed that Maguire would be the selected candidate no fdle guess was made. It is true also that the Republican ticket was pub- lished before the convention had done its work. There was nothing strange about this either; it indi- cated merely that the young men of The Call were active in gathering the ideas of the delegates as soon as they began to arrive at Sacramento. They felt the public pulse. That was their object in being there. Men from all parts of the State were in- terviewed. It was possible thus to obtain the senti- ment of every delegation. Then what could be more simple than the adducing from the aggregate of expressions so unreservedly given the certain out- come? This The Call did. Maguire marvels. Still, in these days, there is no reason why intelligent news- paper enterprise should create wonder. e s e v Sherman’s ambition to become Governor of Ohio will generally be taken as evidence that the charge against him of growing childish is founded on more than political prejudice. JUDGE MAGUIRE ON LAND OWNER- SHIP. N his speech of February 4, 1898, to which we have l referred in discussing his livery stable railroading, Judge Maguire dealt with all that he calls monop- oly and special privilege, which it is his mission to abolish. He put the private ownership of land in the pillory with the railroads, and pelted it as a monopoly worse than all others. Hec said: “The Government must ever occupy the position of a general trustee of the common interests of the people. Those things that of natural right belong to all the people are held in trust by the Government, the only institution that represents all | the people, in trust for the whole people, to be pre- served from generation to generation inviolate, their use being regulated by the trustee, subject to the power of popular control as the exigencies of the time may require. These subjects of common right should be forever kept open to all the people on terms as nearly equal as it is possible to make them. The land of every country, for example, is the com- mon heritage of the people of that country and of all who come to it by birth or immigration. It is just as truly the common heritage of the people as the air and sunlight and it is just as inalienable be- cause it is equally with air and sunlight necessary to the sustenance of human life. To part with the right to use the land is as fatal to the natural right of life as would be alienation of the right to breathe the atmosphere. But, unlike air and sunshine, land cannot be used in common, and, unlike air and sun- shine, it can be made the subject of aggression and | monopoly by the strong and cunning to the extent of interfering with the equal rights of the weak and undesigning. It is therefore the function of demo- cratic government in dealing with this equ 1 natural right of the whole people to prevent the interfer- ence of the unscrupulously aggressive with the equal | rights of their fellow men, and in the exercise of that negative power, to determine by just and general rules, of uniform application to all citizens and to all | lands, the terms and conditions upon Which the ac- knowledged natural right of each citizen to his share in the soil shall be exercised.” He then proceeded to work out his idea, using drained lands and irrigated lands and other kinds of lands in illustration, and said: “True it is the sys- tem now in vogue, and tolerated by the Democratic party and by Democrats, but it is equally true that it is not only an undemocratic system, but an anti- | Democratic system.” It will occur to the common mind that his sus- tained analogy between air and sunshine and land should logically cease at the point where he admits | that they differ. Air and sunshine are the common elements necessary to life, which man enjoys in com- mon without his own volition. No labor on his part is necessary or possible to prepare these for his use or subject them to it. His enjoyment of the air, his use of it, is involuntary on hts part and con- tinues while he sleeps and his consciousness is en- tirely suspended. His sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch cease on his pillow, but his use of air to keep his blood in a state necessary to his life con- tinues without voluntary labor on his part. In like manner he uses the sunlight and has its use in the growth of plants and animals necessary to his sustenance, without labor on his part. He does not pry up the sun when it rises in the East, nor does he toil to send it below the horizon when it sets and by setting throws all nature into that re- pose in the dark hours which is as necessary to life as the stimulus of light during the day. With the use of land by civilized man the case is widely dif- ferent. It is only in savage life that the land is | the property of the commune. To get an illustra- tion of the difference in effect between Judge Ma- guire’'s communistic ownership of land, and its pri- vate ownership, we must go to barbaric man. He lived on the soil in that perfect equality of right to it upon which the Judge insists, but never anywhere did he subject it to its nobler use. He ranged over | it in perfect equality in pursuit of the game which pastured on its forage and of the nuts and fruits which it produced without his labor. But nowhere in history is it recorded that primitive man invented or progressed in the arts under such commune own- ership of the soil. His life was leveled down to the plane of what the soil bore without his labor. The arts arose when the individual man felt wants that nature did not spontaneously supply. To meet those wants he resorted to the soil, put upon it his labor, and to protect that labor and its fruits as- serted private ownership in what had been the prop- erty of the tribe or commune. Civilization began with the private ownership of land. From that point the arts arose and multi- plied, industries varied and were differentiated. When land was the property of the commune, hunting and gathering the fruits and nuts it produced sponta- neously were the only industries. The investment of individual labor upon land to increase its produc- tion required that the laborer own it. His labor and the subjection of the land thereby to nobler uses produced a surplus of its fruits and gave the owner that surplus to exchange for what his enlarged wants required. This was produced by other labor in other industries and the constantly increasing wants of man as he rose from the communal ownership of land stimulated ingenuity in supplying them, and tools, machinery and invention increased man’s pro- ductive capacity in all directions. Now, Judge Ma- guire denounces the private owners of land, to whom we are indebted for the dawn and rlse of civilization, for the differentiation of labor, for the myriad of inventions which distinguish civilization from bar- barism, as monopolists and aggressors, as the strong and cunning robbers who have despoiled the weak and undesigning. For them he has a rod in pickle in the form of the single tax, provided in amend- ment No. 2 of the State constitution. His appeal is made to those who either by taste, inclination and training have not become land owners, and to the other class whose lack of thrift and industry has pre- vented their owning anything. He arrays the house of want against the house of have, and tilts at all the results of thrift and in- dustry. The expectations invested in this campaign are not easily concealed nor mistaken. Every single taxer in the State who believes in the confiscation of land supports him. Among them are many Re- publicans. ~ Their attachment to the general prin- ciples of their party and their pride in its history would naturally command their loyalty to its ticket. But they support Maguire because he stands for con- fiscation of land, and yet we zre told that land con- fiscation is not in issue in his candidacy. e —— Any contractor deliberately selling diseased meat to soldiers or to any one else deserves the severest punishment the law can mete out. Unfortunately the law does not go so far as to provide for hanging him or sentencing him to death by a diet on the meat. Havana papers are not yet happy, and excerpts from them read as though they had been taken from within black borders. An evening paper wants to know where Pando got all that money. No matter. He got all there was. Zola can now make those charges over again and THE, STATE FAIR ITH the opening of the State Fair at Sacra- W mento a display is made of what Californian farmers can do in the way of growing prize products in a dry year. It is a display that could not be duplicated in any other State even in the best “of seasons, and affords a striking proof of the wide variety of our rural industries and the general excel- lence of the crops attained no moatter what the con- ditions of the weather may have been during the growing season. The agricultural exhibits, however, do not com- pose the whole display by any means. The State Fair, in fact, is in many respects an exposition of all the industries of California, and among the exhibits can be seen evidences of our productive capability in all lines of work from machinery to fine art. This tendency toward making at Sacramento something like a universal display of the industry, ingenuity and skill of our home workers is a growing one; and in quite a number of lines the exhibits this year are larger in quantity, more diverse in nature and better in quality than ever berore. California having been found to be better fitted for the breeding of fine horses than any other part of the United States, and probably of the world, and the tastes of many of our most enterprising mil- lionaires having run in the direction of horse breed- ing, that industry has become one of the most nota- ble of the State; and, as a consequence, racing is one of the chief features of all our fairs. At Sacra- mento that feature will be particularly prominent this year, and the new rules and regulations which have been adopted for the racing events assure results that will be more than ever gratifying both to horse- men and to the general public. All the fairs to be held in California this fall have a special importance from the fact that the time is at hand when our people must begin preparations for making an adequate display of the products of the State at the Paris Exposition in rgoo. It is now certain that the Eastern States are going to enter the competition seriously and endeavor to eclipse the world. It is the intention to make at Paris a dis- play which will show that the United States are the greatest industrial nation on earth, and in carrying out that intention California will be expected to do her share. As the exhibits must be in place when the expo- sition opens in the spring of 1900, the rural display must be made up from the crop of next year. Con- sequently the fairs of this year afford something like a rehearsal from which we can learn where the State can get its finest articles for the coming competition with the world. Of all the fairs that at Sacramento will be the most complete and therefore its exhibits should be well studied by all who are interested in our advancing welfare. A THOROUGHFARE COMPETITION. NCE more the capitalists of San Francisco O have united to accomplish a work of great magnitude, designed to achieve far-reaching benefits not only for the city, but for the State. The new movement is an outcome of that which has car- ried the Valley road forward to rapid success, and will extend the advantages of that road to the people by connecting it with a great transcontinental system of railways, thus affording California industries the benefits of a competing route to all parts of the East. Rumors of the proposed enterprise have been cur- rent for some time, and reports more or less vague concerning it have been published in several papers of the city, but The Call of yesterday was the first to give an authentic statement of the facts. The enterprise, which is to consist of the construction of a line of railway southward from Bakersfield over the Tejon Pass to a point where it can make con- nection with Eastern lines, has been undertaken by a company of capitalists and business men, all of this city. Articles of incorporation are already drawn up and the work will be pushed forward with as much | energy as that so conspicuously shuwn in the con- struction of the Valley road. The accomplishment of a competing thoroughfare across the continent within a time so comparatively short as that which will have elapsed from the date when Mr. Claus Spreckels accepted leadership in the | movement for building the Valley road to that which will mark the completion of the enterprise will be one of the most notable industrial accomplishments of the century. It is but a short time ago that the Southern Pacific monopoly regarded its control of California as something which could not be shaken off. The builders of the road down the San Joaquin showed that this confidence was ill founded, and now comes a new -enterprise which will break the mo- nopoly altogether. It will be in vain that the Southern Pacific boasts of the passage of the funding bill for which it has forght so hard. The competing road will destroy its power of monopoly, and it will no longer be able to fix freight rates at all the traffic will bear. . The enterprise of our business men in railroad building has emancipated the city and the State far more com- pletely than the politicians could have done, even had they fulfilled all the pledges they ever made. Tke monopoly is dead. Our industries are free and the prosperity of the State is now better assured than ever before in its history. It is not pleasing to read that teamsters and pack- ers, who were as indispensable as soldiers at Santi- ago, have been left there stranded. Uncle Sam should send for them and pay them for the suffer- ing to which the stupidity of some official has sub- jected them. Also, he should direct a few personal remarks toward the official in question. There are indications that if all the French officials guilty of crime in establishing the guilt of Dreyfus were to follow the example of Colonel Henry, who had the grace to commit suicide, the prisoner would be tried by an entirely new set and have some show of fair treatment. It is to be hoped that Colonel Berry will not carry out his determination to divide the State. California is willing'to do anything reasonable to oblige the Colonel, but it does not want to be cut in two merely because he has been hurt in his feelings. The returned Klondiker who threw gold out of a window at Seattle for the fun of seeing the crowd scramble for it was merely illustrating the old adage that that sort of a Klondiker and his money are soon parted. . —_— “I done it with my little telegram,” remarks the managing editor of the Examiner, and he swells to frightful proportions in contemplation of his prowess as director-general of the War Department. There is satisfaction in learning that at least part of the stories of neglect of soldiers are false. But what awful liars will be exposed before the end of the investigation! Trouble is said to be in store for Premier Sagasta. The poor man hasn’t had anything else since coming receive respectful audience into office and ought to exhaust his personal supply l before long. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Dr. Cross of Stockton is at the Russ. W’CA F. White of Monterey is at the Bald- n. B. F. Kittridge of New York is at the California. s Frank A. Fetter of Stanford is at the Occldental. J. Manasse, a merchant of Hanford, is at the Lick. P. Sweed, a merchant of Petaluma, is at the Grand. R. H. Flint, a mining man of Angels, is at the Palace. H. H. C. Fisher and wife of Hongkong are at the Occidental. R. Rowlands, a mine owner of Placer- ville, is at the Grand. F. J. Solinsky, an attorney of San An- dreas, is at the Grand. Captain W. H. C. Cook of the Sixth Regiment is at the Grand. L. P.St. Clair, a rancher of Bakersfield, and wife are at the Russ. J. A. Knoblock, a mining man from Gerome, Arlz., is at the Russ. George Flournoy Jr., a prominent law- ver of Bakersfleld, is at the Lick. Dr. Julius Rosenstirn returned yester- day from a trip around the world. R. M. Shackelford, a grain merchant of Paso Robles, is at the Occidental. Dr. .nomas Flint and wife and Thomas Flint Jr., of San Juan, are at the Palace. Captain J. E. Lombard. United States navy, is down from Mare Island for a few | days. Thomas M. Cobbe, Mrs. L, C. Cobbe and son, of Los Angeles, are at the Ocel- dental. | W. E. Dunn, a well-known rancher and capitalist of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. C. B. Shaver of Fresno, manager of the Fresno Flume and Lumber Company, is at the Grand. Frederic Simpson of Sydney, Australla, is at the Palace on his way to his home in the colonies. Amos Burr, the passenger agent of the Vanderbilt lines in this city, left for the south vesterday. A. M. .Jebster of Montevideo, Minn., arrived here yesierday. He will take charge of the Colton High School. J. Adams of the Nickel Plate left last night for Portland, where he will attend to some important business matters. ——— MODEST UNCLE SAM. My name is Uncle Bam, Aeatter folke'll know who 1 am, Without compelling me to stand Around and walt Until somebody introduces me. T4 hate To Regarded as bumptious, but Whenever there's a nut That others find too hard to crack, Why Let them pass it around, and I Will give it a whack! Understand that I'm not One of those who Like to boast about what They can do! 1 don't care to stand On_the housetop and Yell; 1 prefer to let my actions tell— But, still, 1 will Say That the world may As well be Notified that from to-day 1t will be well to consider me When Big things are to be done With pen, Or gun! 1 am naturally shy; 1 don’t like to boast, But 1 guess most Folke'll be willing to admit that I Am not so Slow! 1 wouldn't for the world have it thought That I'd_got The big head, or That, having had a taste of war, 1 am looking for Other bullies to Subdue, No, 1 intend to go y way Without a word to say! 1 don’t propose To make any blg talk— But 1 have a full set of toes, And it will not pay anybody to wald On the same! My _name Is Uncle Sam— 1 guess most folks know who I amt Those who don’t happen to be On_speaking terms with me ~Will do well to step forward now, And bow! 1 am modest, as I have said; There's no Blow About me; | My head 1s the same size it used to be! 1 don’t want to stand Around and Tell folks about my own worth— But T will say, By the way, That I'm on earth! T'm as modest as I can be; 1 blush like a sweet girl graduate— That's straight!— But, ain't T great? Let! hurrah for me! —Cleveland Leader. “How can I learn the rules of the House?’ asked a newly elected Irlsh‘ member of the late Mr. Parnell. “By breaking them,” was the prompt reply of the Irish leader, who, as is well known, spoke from experience on the point. But few members would care to adopt that heroic method of obtaining the desired knowledge, and their task in mastering the rules is rendered all the more dif- ficult by the curious fact that many of these regulations are unwritten. Some will be found in the Atflndln% or- ders, or permanent rules passed fre | time to time by the House to regulate its own procedure, but those that deal with etiquette and decorum have not been officially recorded anywhere, save in a few quaint and obsolete regulations to be found In the old issues of the jour- nais of the House, or in the minutes of proceedings during the session. For in- stance, a strange rule for the guidance of the Speaker is set down under the | 15th of February, 1620: “The Speaker is | not to move his hat until the third con- | gee.” Propriety of carriage in leaving the chamber is thus enforced: ‘‘Those Wwho go out of the House in-a confused | manner before the BSpeaker to forfeit | 10s. This rule is dated tne 12th of No- | vember, 1640. Again we find that on the 2d of March, 1693, it was ordered: ‘No member to take tobacco into the lery, or to the table, sitting at committees." B —— CONFEDERATE RATIONS. General Shafter, in recounting in a re- port to the President the hardships through which his army passed, said: “What put my command in its present condition were the twenty days of the campaign when they had nothing but meat, bread and coffee, without change of clothes, without any shelter whatever, and during the period twice as stormy as it has been since the surrender.” Such a statement makes many of the Confederate veterans of the Clvil War smile. They can recall that, for the eater part of the last three years of | their service, they bivouacked, winter and summer, under the sky. They had no tents, and met snow and rain with no other shelter than could be constructed with a blanket and a few fence rails. As for a change of clothes, that was a lux- ury rarely enjoyed. And how the starv- ing soldiers at Santiago must have suf- fered on a steady diet of meat, bread and coffee! In comparison with the luxurious fare of the Confederates, the Santiago menu makes a poor show. If General Shafter had only fed his men on marched corn and water every few days he would have brought them out of their troubles. But it is mighty rough on soldiers who have to live twenty days on meat, bread and coffee. The mule meat and corn dodgers fed to the defenders of Vicksburg for months in 183 make luxurious fare compared with what Shafter's men had to subsist on.—New Orleans Picayune. ———— ‘WAS IT A SPECIAL PROVIDENCE? Probably Dr. Parkhurst's people do not feel complimented becausepught- ning struck their steeple, but they ought to be thankful that they were hit by lightning rather than Tammany. In GOLD-SEEKERS SHOULD AVOID FROZEN ALAS 0 Captain John MecCafferty, ex-Collector | of Customs for Alaska, arrived from Dawson City yesterday, by way of Seat- tle. He sounds a note of warning to gold- seekers contemplating a trip to that ice- bound territory. His profession being that of mining engineer and his mission thither being strictly within the line of his busi- ness, he had unusually good opportunities for observation. His summing up of his experience Is that the gold placer diggings of Alaska are short lived and that there are no true fissure veins in that territory, because the country is too much broken up and be- cause the geological indications are such as to warrant the conviction that there is no gold-bearing quartz ‘“in place.” Large broken ‘‘deposits” of gold or bo- nanzas may be found there, but they will be of the nature of pockets and will not last. The most surprising opinfon expressed by him is that the present diggings are on the point of being worked out and that many of them have barely paid expenses. He asserts also that all the storfes told of Klondikers returning with large sums of money are not true; that in many in- stances men reported to have arrived in Seattle wealthy had not a dollar to th-'r names and had to be assisted out of Al- aska by friends or charitable miners. The reason for the false statements circulated by certain gapers in Seattle and this city is said to be owlng to the greed of the transportation companies for passengers and freight. In telling of His experiences, Mr. McCafferty said yesterday: I am direct from Dawson by way of St, Michael, Dutch Harbor and Seattle. 1 sailed from this port for the Klondfke re- glon on the 12th of March last, taking sev- eral tons of freight over the White Pass traill to Lake Bennett, and chence in six cedar scow boats to Dawson, making the run in nine days, without accident. Upon arrival I made an examination of the conditions surrounding the mineral out- look for the Klondlke basin or district, and am now in full accord with the published opinion of Walter de Varfla, mining en- gineer and Deputy United States Geological and Mineral Surveyor. He pointedly asserts that ‘‘the Klondike is a good place from which to keep away. While a few men stumble upon the gold, many waste their . energies and exhaust their means in a vain endeavor to find gold where there is none. The Klondike, and by the Klondike is meant all the’ auriferous territory on the Yukon, {s more of a gamble or speculation than any other placer country in the world, because it is so uncertain. It {s not a trus placer country, and the gold of the Yukon interior is the product of erosion, or of ex- tinet or ancient glaciers carried down by them from unknown fountain he and left in the crevices, gulches or depressions found on bedrock. Therefore, the uncertainties of the Yukon are too great for the average man to undertake mining up there. Con- sequently a man can run through a small fortune in a short time and if he is not lucky in his first venture he finds himself a poor man in the most inhospitable coun- try on earth for a poor man.” Such words from so capable a man as Mr. de Varila should be considered as & warning to the general public. I know be- yond reasonabie doubt that the deliber- ately mis] fng accounts published by such newspapers as the Post-Intelligencer of Seattle and the Examiner of San Fran- cisco about the rich Klondikers who have returned and are to return induced thou- sands of brave, earnest men all over the country to go there—searching for a golden phantom! The managing edit t these sensational newspapers knew stampedes were being started rich the outfitters and transportation T panies. It was the most cruel and heart- less confidence gafme ever worked upon & conflding peaple. While the Klondike discovery developed into an exceedingly rich find, nevertheless it is confined to a small hat_this may be understood, 1 say that out of the 1700 or 1800 claims worked in the Klondike district not_over forty on EIl Dorado and twenty on Bonanza paid one cent beyond the working expenses. Fancy, therefore, the vast amount of capital lost in working clalms which neither paid nor turned out a single color. The Klondike discovery has cost the general public not less than $75,- 000,000, while the gold dust gathered there- from up to date, will scarcely exceed $,- 000,000. Somebody, therefore, has been hurt to_the extent of $70,000,000. Notwithstanding all statements to the contrary, the eyes have been picked out of not only the Klondike basin, but also out of every district in both Alaska and the Northwest Territory. The country is far too broken for quartz veins, and therefore, as there s neither farming nor grazing land n the Territory there is nothing to fall back upon. When I left Dawson, wildcat clalms and claims that had been worked out were selling from 25 cents up. As one Instance of the notorious misrep- resentation of the Seattle papers I will mention the case of a man who came from Dawson to Seattle penn who brought with him, according Post-Intelligencer, $12,000 in gold dust. I happened to know the man, and know that he did not have a cent. With some others 1 made up a_purse, bought a suit of clothes for him and pald his fare ‘from Seattle. Another man of my acquaintance who had not a dollar was reputed by the same paper to_be worth $60,000. 1 have sec: men crying ‘like bables be- cause they had sold their homes to raise the means with which to get to Dawson and were stranded there. They were ashamed and afraid to go home, because they had To assurance of being employed when they got there. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. PACIFIC BANK—E. C..K., City. The Pacific Bank suspended on the 22d of June, 1893. TERRIERS—A. 8., City. A Scotch ter- rier {s good for rodents, but a fox ter- rier is better. THE LIGHTSHIP—J. W., City. The lightship is located 11 miles southwest ;]hre@-que.rtcrs west of Fort Point Light- ouse. WINDOW GLASS—W. K. A, City. There is no window glass factory in this State at this time, nor is any in proces of erection. FLYING EAGLE CENT—J. G. M., Sac- ramento. An American one-cent piece of | 1857, with flying eagle on one side, has a numismatic value of just one cent. PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE—A. B. F., City. The baseball schedule of the Pa- cific Coast League was published in the San Francisco Call May 26, page 12. NOT SIXTY MILES AN HOUR—Read- er, Terminus, San Joaquin County, Cal No ship ever launched in England or any- where else has attained a speed of sixty miles an hour. TAX ON MATCHES—A. H. G., City, The department of Answers to Corre- spondents is informed that the tax on matches levied during the clvil war was taken off in 1883. POPULATION OF CUBA-D. J. T, City. The population of Cuba is given as 1631,697. Sixty-five per cent of the number are of the white race and the re- mainder of the negro race. THE MERMAID—L A. S, City. The latest information received in this city in relation to the bark Mermaid that left this port some time ago for Kotzebue Sound is that she was in the sound on the 3d of August, 159. PEACE RIVER—E. B. 8., City. There 1s no special work on the Peace River district of British Columbia. You can obtain information about that territory by Inquiry at the office of the British Consulate In this city. SHOOTING STAR—A. L. F., City. There is a superstition that when a shooting star, commonly called a falling star, passes, it denotes the death of some prominent person, but it is only a super- stition and is not founded on fact. THE NAVAL ACADEMY—F., Ala- meda, Cal. To ascertain if there is a vacancy or when there will be one in the list of appointments to the United States Naval Academy for the Third Congres- sional District of California, you will have to address a communication to ‘he Representative from that district, S. G. Hiiorn, Oakland. THE DOG DAYS—8. A. M., Cornwall, Cal. "Dog days” is a term applied to days of great heat. The Roman called the six or eight hottest weeks of summer caniculares dies, According to their theory, the dog star, or Sirius, rising with the sun, added to its heat, and the dog days bore the combined heat of the dog star and the sun. (July 3 to August 11.) BAIT FOR A DUCK POND-F. V. R., Oakland, Cal. The amount of wheat that would be required to bait a duck pond to give two hunters enough game to shoot at would depend on the liberality of the huntsmen. here is no rule as to quan- tity. All that is needed is sufficient to at- tract the attention of the ducks. The pond should be baited as often as the bait set | has beenexhausted. Hunters on the prem- ises are the best judges of such matters. If the correspondent is an amateur he should go out on one or two trips with a | Erolesslona‘ and he will learn more than e could by reading for six months. STENOGRAPHERS—S. A. M., City. In San Francisco the reporters for the seve- ral courts are appointed by the Judges thereof for their respective courts. They are required to be able to write not less than 120 words a minute. A stenographer in a lawyer's office is to take any dicta- tion given. In some offices (he sten- ographer is a law student, and when not doing a stenographer’s work he studles law and performs such duties as are ex- ected of a law student. There is no ed rule governing stenographers in law- ye’rs’ offices, each office m&&lng its own rule. LONE MOUNTAIN AND CROSS—F. C. J., City. The mound to the west of Calvary Cemetery in San Francisco was named Lone Mountain from the fact that it is an isolated eminence. The prop- erty is a part of that owned by the Catholic church, and the cross on_ the tggt of the mountain was erected in May, 1862, by order of Archbishop Alemany. It was a plain wooden cross. Its erec- tion was commenced May 10, and it was finished on the 23d. It was placed there as an emblem of Christian- ity to mark one of the prominent points then in San Francisco. AN AUTHOR WANTED—An anxious correspondent from Elk, in this State, is desirous of obtaining the name of the author of a poem in which occur the following lines; also where the whole poem can be obtained. Can any of the readers of this department enlighten the correspondent? Time rules all, and life is, indeed, The thing we planned it out, mnogm ‘was dead. Bemeb::hfl 8row deep, some woes are hard to T, Who knoiws the past and judge us right? My little child, he si . smil Those thoughts and me. In heaven we shall the latter case there wouldn't be a stone left standing.—! - hah oo ing.—Brooklyn Stand. ROMAN NUMERALS—Elatne, City. There are seven capitals to 'ge Roman numerals—I for 1, V for 5, X for 10, L for 5, C for 100, D for 500 and M for 1000. Any other numbers are expressed by a combination of these letters on the gen- eral principle that such a combination represents the sum of the value of its constituent letters, these being arranged from left to right in the order of value and the use of same letter five times or more being avoided by using letters of greater value, but when in accordance with this the same letter would occur four times it is custo ary to employ the sub-principle that whepever a letter pre- cedes one of greater value the value of the two is that of their difference instead of their sum. Thus. ITI denotes 3, denotes 4, VI denof 6, LX 60, XIV 14 and MDCCLXXVT 1776. This sys- tem was superseded by the, Arablc, not the Asiatic, system. A RULE IN EUCHRE—-W. F., City. The law of euchre is that at a four-hand- ed game if a player has a very strong hand he may play alone—that is, play single-handed against his two adver- saries. When a player announces that he will play alone, his partner cannot ob- Ject, but must place his cards, however good they may be, face downward on the table, and leave himself in the hands of his partner. A player can play alone when he or his partner ordersup; or when his partner assists; or, in the case of the dealer, when he takes up the trump. A playet may also play alone when he makes the trump, but not when the ad- versary orders up, or assists or makes the trump. On the subject of scoring the law is that if a lone player wins all the tricks he scores four. If he wins three he scores one. If he fails to win three tricks the adversaries score two. In the case cited in the communication it appears that the adversary ordered up, consequently the player could mot go it alone, and further was not entitled to four points. ST. SWITHUN—Mrs. 8. A. M., Corn- wall, Cal. There is an old saying to the effect that if it rains on St. Swithun’s (or Swithin) day there will be rain for forty days. The 15th of July is given as the saint’s day. St. Swithun was an English ecclesiastic of the ninth century, who was chaplain to King Egbert ar ' tutor to his son Ethelwulf; died 862. When Ethel- wulf came to the throne Swithun held the office of Chancellor. In 832 he was creat- ed Bishop of Winchester. Accounts of him are almost wholly legendary. Ac- cording to William of Malmesbury he was ‘“a rich treasury of all virtues, and those in which he took most delight were hu- mility and charity to the poor.” He was buried, according to his own orders, not in the church, but in the churchyard. of ‘Winchester, that the sweet rain of heaven might fall upon his grave. A century later he was canonized, and, according to legend, the monks who exhumed his re- mains_to deposit them in Winchester Cath- edral July 13 were delayed by violent rains without _intermission for forty days, whence arose the belief that if it rains on St. Swithin’s day it will continue for time stated. A Scotch rhyme says: St. Swithin's day, gif ye do rain, for forty days st. Swithin's daz, and ye b fair, for . Swithin's day, and ye be fair, for fo will rain nae mair. 5 i —_—— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 K{anz- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, * —_————— A young white jackdaw has been found in the grounds of Claremont, Esher, the residence of the Duchess of Albany. The Duchess has seen the bird, which has become a favorite. First and Sscond Claes rates again reduced via the Santa Fe route. Call at the new ticket office, 625 Market. —_—————————— MOKI TEA POSITIVELY CURES SICK headache, indigestion and constipation. A de- Iightful herb drink. Removes all eruptions of the skin, producing a perfect complexion, or money refunded. At No Percentage Pharmacy. —_—————————— Volunteers leaving for the South—Provid vourselves with a bottle of Dr. Siegert's Ango: tura Bitters. Prevents i1l effects of bad water. e et The largest wild beast bounty payment ever made in any State is now being made at Helena, Mont. It amounts to $50,096, and represents the balance due on tha State’s payment on the skins of 16,698 wolves and coyotes killed in 1897. ADVERTISEMENTS. Baking Powder Most healthful leavener in the world. 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