The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 7, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1898. WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 7, 1808 JOHN D; SéRéEKkLS. Proprietor. All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. JION 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 carriers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 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 (D. C.) OFFICE. eeaste..Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE. -Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Represcntative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 62! McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 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 until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS, Lost—24 Honrs * Marriage of Convenience.” “The First Born” and * Turned Up" Morosco hall We Forgive Her. Tivoli—* Rigoletto™' Orpheum—Vandeville. New Comedy Theater—* The Leading Man.” Alhambra, Eddy and Jones streets—Vaudeville. The Chutes—Z0o, Vaundeville and Spanish Bull Fight. Olympia—Corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Mechanles' Pavilion—The Irish Fair, tutro’s Baths—Swimming. Metropolitan Temple —Concert, Thursday September 8. State Fair—Suacramento, September 5. Alcazar. AUCTION SALES. By G. H. Umbsen & Co.—Monday, September 12, Real Estate 3t 14 Moniw6omery street, ai 12 0’ clock. Wunenviable notoriety through its evasion of the war tax, is now carrying the daily papers published in this city, and is paying for the necessary revenue stamps. This is an improvement. There was a time when the corporation declared that rather than sustain its share of the war expenses it would decline to carry the papers. The point of particular interest is that the private individual has rights as indisputable as those of a daily paper, and that anybody with a package to send by express has only to proffer it and demand that the company affix the stamp. There will be no ground upon which there can be refusal. The Wells-Fargo concern has injured itself by its shortsightedness. N packages which once would have been assigned to it for transmission are now Jgiven to the postoffice. The mail is sure and cheap, and in patronizing it there is no danger of meeting an arrogant demand for a revenue stamp. While citi- zens who do not care to enter upon a controversy the mails, there are indications that the ultimate reform of the Wells-Fargo Express must be left to the State Legislature. Happily this body has the power to im- pose a license based on the profits. When the Legis- lature shall have convened, and the proper committees have been appointed, the books can be overhauled and the license determined. It is plain that Wells- Fargo people do not appreciate the leniency and ac- tual generosity with which they have been treated. They have been protected, nurtured, and the first op- portunity for them to display gratitude is turned into an occasion for robbing the public. The public re- sents this. The corporation will understand so later when called upon to show its boaks and pay acord- ing to the size of the dividend. The war tax, compared with the amount the cor- poration has lost and is destined still to lose through this meanness, would have been a trifle not worth considering. CALIFORNI@’S NATIVE SONS. HERE is about the history of California a Tmmancc which does not mark the history of any other State in the Union. There is in the word itself an allurement and a charm. The title is linked with the tale of the argonauts, the story of gold. Tts wery mention brings up a vision of the days when the Pacific Cbast was weeks away from civilization, when Jong trains laboriously crossed the plains, or ships came around the Horn bringing loads of brave and adventurous Americans ready to cast their lots in a new and untried realm. That the sons of these bold blazers of the trail of fortune should have banded is not strange. They have memories to preserve, legends to perpetuate, a pride in the achievements of ancestry. The pioneers were a brave lot. They faced dangers unknown. They came to this coast eager to partake of the riches which rumor had told them awaited, but ready for whatever there should be for their hands to do. They were not mere speculators, and they did not shrink from any duty. The realm they found a wilderness they made to blossom. They founded here a great commonwealth. They gave to its upbuilding their best efforts. Some of them lived to see the result. The sons of these men this week will meet at San Jose, and best wishes will be with them. They have much of which to be proud. Their fathers builded well the foundation upon which rests the secure pros- perity of to-day. Long may the Native Sons flour- ish. The reason for their organization will not pass when the second generation shall have given place to the third. The native of California will always be able through this organization to show that he ap- preciates the great State which gave him birth, WELLS-FARGO REFORMING. ELLS-FARGO, an organization given some may easily avoid the necessity by patronizing About this time there is curiosity to know whether the ponderous Captain Barnés is going to continue soldiering or follow the guidance of the string by which he is attached to his old office. Secretary Alger ought to sanction the most thor- ough investigation. At the worst it could not hurt him more than the absence of it would. The horrors of camp life #mong the soldiers seem to have got loose just in time to be useful for cam- paign purposes. A citizen returned from France says there is not there much hostility toward America. Why should there be any? For a head which the Spanish considered worth $25,000 cash, that of Aguinaldo seems to have very little in it. Dewey should be kept at Manila at least until Aguinaldo has been tamed. There are indications that the Czar’s olive branch was loaded THE CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS. NE of the notable features of recent po- O litical history in the United States is the regu- larity with which the two great parties have alternated in control of the House of Representatives. The success of either party in a Presidential election has been followed by the success of the opposition in the Congressional elections two years later. No mat- ter how great was the majority that carried a Presi- dent into office, he has had to confront a hostile Con- gress before his term was over. The record of these alternations is giving the fusion leaders a great deal of satisfaction at this juncture. With no important issue on which to make the cam- paign, with no definite policy to propose to the peo- ple on any question, and without competent states- men to direct and control the organization,.the oppo- sition to the administration this year would be for- lorn indeed if it were not for a belief that the people are willing to make a change simply for the sake of a change, and that as they voted against Harrison’s ad- ministration without cause in 1890 so they will vote against that of McKinley this year. The hope is not without a considerable basis of reason. The oscillations in our politics have been ex- treme, and no doubt some of the causes which led to the changes in the voting of the past exist to-day. A large number of people vote for a President in the ex- pectation of attaining an office, or of getting some direct personal gain, and being disappointed they be- come “soreheads.” In the ensuing election these classes either antagonize the administration or else remain inactive during the campaign and discourage the efforts of others. Moreover, as the party out of power can always promise more than the party in power has performed, it thus catches a large propor- tion of the votes of dissatisfied people. These ele- ments of opposition exist to-day as much as in the past, and they constitute one of the dangers against which the Republicans must be on guard in every Congressional district. < While among Republican workers there should be no indifference to the discontents of the’disappointed office-seekers and rainbow-chasers who followed the leadership of McKinley four years ago, there are abundant reasons for believing they will be far less numerous and less dangerous than such classes have been in the off-year campaigns of the past. The pros- perity promised by the Republican party in 1896 has been so splendidly fulfilled by the results of the Dingley tariff and the maintenance of the gold stan- dard; the whole conduct of the administration has been in every way so helpful to all sections of the Union and all interests of industry; and the tact and patriotism of the President himself has been so con- ciliatory to every class of people, that it is certain the number of persons discontented with the adminis- tration is nothing like as great as that of those who, having voted for Harrison or for Cleveland for the Presidency, turned away two years afterward and cither voted against the President’s party gr did not vote at all. The people, in fact, are no longer in a mood for political oscillations. Change for the sake of change is not so attractive as it was. We have now experi- mented with a free-trade tariff and with an assort- ment of silver purchase acts, and the experiments are sufficient for this generation. Discontented people there are, and kickers and soreheads in every Con- gressional district, but they will not be numerous enough to defeat administration candidates in many places. In the meantime Republicans should resolve to take no chances, but carry on the canvass as vig- orously as if the foe were as dangerous as it thinks itself. ROUSING THE OLD MONOPOLY. F the progressive capitalists of this city who O have carried the Valley Road to success and are now ready to provide it with connections with the transcontinental lines it may be said they are not only energetic themselves, but are the cause of energy in others. Even the Southern Pacific Com- pany, which for so long a time has been averse to railway improvements in California, has been roused from the apathy produced by an over confidence in the permanence of its monopoly, and is now prepar- ing to undertake the work of improving its own lines. It is now announced that improvements will soon be made by the Southern Pacific in the passenger service between this city and the San Joaquin by the Niles route. The traveling public has long asked for a better service over that line, but the asking has been hitherto in vain. The company, it was said, could | not afford it, and the officials were certain the de- sired improvements would not pay. A change has now come over the counsels of the old monopoly. The company perceives that when the Valley Road completes its rapidly progressing line from Stockton to Point Richmond the old service by Niles will not pay and that a better one must be provided or the line will have hardly any patronage at all. This result of the enterprise of the projectors of the Valley Road is not surprising. It was foreseen from the start that the new road would rouse the Southern Pacific and cause it also to enter vigorously upon the task of improving and extending the trans- portation system of the State. The first gain was the reduction in freight rates through the San Joaquin caused by the competition, and now comes the im- provement affecting the section through which the Niles route runs. The benefits to be derived from:the renewed ac- tivities of the old monopoly will not end with these. The opening of a line connecting the Valley Road with the lines in the southern part of the State will compel th¢ Southern Pacific to fulfill its promises and obligations to the people of the coast counties and close the gap in the line running through that section of the State. That improvement in our trans- portation system should have been made years ago, but while the monopoly continued nothing was done. Now that transcontinental competition is assured the people along the coast will get their throtigh line at last. During the last fiscal year California led all the States of the Union in railroad building. That was accomplished almost wholly by the construction of the Valley Road. In the coming fiscal year we shall probably lead again, since it now seems clear that the Southern Pacific itself, after long asserting that California needed no more railways,'is about to construct some itself. French officials are accused of having .connived at the suicide of Colonel Henry. Suicide, however, is a difficult thing at which to connive. Possibly they employed hypnotism. There is a suspicion that the Maguire campaign hat reached its present condition of partial collapse by having been talked through ovem‘;h. Dan Cole will hereafter coin money, but his specialty will continue to be the honor of resembling Lincoln. It is safe to say that if Schley shall come to the Pa- cific station the people out here will be glad to see him. = THE YELLOW CAMPAIGN. HEN the yellow journals began their denun- W ciations of the War Department and first set forth their ghastly and grewsome stories of starvation and suffering amdng the troops in the va- rious camps of the East, not a few people were in- clined to believe their reports. Indeed many of the earlier reports were quite true. In all wars troops at the front frequently lack for sufficient supplies, and when men are taken from a salubrious climate to the swamps of the tropics they are liable under the best of circumstances to be attacked by malarial fevers. These evils to a considerable extent befell our vol- unteers at Santiago, and the suffering they underwent was sufficient to win for them the sympathy of every patriotic heart. That sympathy was freely-given. No gross exaggerations of the suffering and the sick- ness were necessary to arouse it. It rose spontan- eously in the breasts of the people as soon as the con- dition of affairs was made known, and prompt was the responsive offering of money, food, medicines and delicacies of all kinds for the relief and the com- fort of the sufferers. No sooner, however, was this widespread sympathy made known than the yellow journals seized upon the opportunity to make a profit out of it. At once a host of sensational, irresponsible writers of the emo- tional kind was turned loose to furnish the public daily with tales of pestilence, hunger, famine and cruelty. Dante hardly painted Inferno in blacker or more horrid colors than these yellow rhetoricians used in painting the camps of the American troops. Estimated by the tales they told, Weyler’s treatment of the Cuban reconcentrados was mild-mannered gen- tleness in comparison to the treatment inflicted upon our soldiers by their officers and the Government. All this was bad enough, but there was worse to come. The yellow journals, having made as much as they could of the sickness among the troops as a newspaper sensation, began to turn it to account for political ends. The fused factions now arrayed in opposition to the administration are badly in need of an issue on which to make the campaign. It occurred to the yellow editors that their camp stories would be useful as an issue to the faction agitators, and at once they gave a political turn o the mass of lies by adding others to the effect that the President and the Sec- retary of War are directly responsible for the death of every soldier who died of disease. The malignancy of these charges is by no means the worse characteristic of them. They have been insulting to the nation and have tended to blacken and stain the splendid glory won by the Union in the war. They have portrayed our Government as viler, crueler and more inhumanly barbarous to its troops than any on earth. They have led thousands of American women to live in fear and dread that more serious dangers menace their loved ones in the camps at home since the close of the war than in the trenches before Santiago; and they have mocked the honor of brave officers by representing them as cow- ards and thieves. Such is the policy of attack the yellow journals have outlined for the fusionists. It remains to be scen whether any of them will be base enough to- adopt it. The Examiner has led the way in this State, but as yet no speaker has followed the lead. Tt will be well for them, indeed, if they abstain. Trying to evade the single tax, land confiscation record of Ma- guire by such tactics would be a striking instance of avoiding the road by taking to the mire. e ———— PLEASING PHASE OF EXTRADITION. HETHER Chief Lees succeeds finally in con- W vincing himself @f Mrs. Botkin’s guilt or not, it will undoubtedly be a great hardship upon the lady to go to Delaware for trial. Her friends are here, her witnesses are here, this is the stamping ground of her attorneys, and here the chief and his “tanks” are located. Yet we are constrained to re- mark that the principle involved in her extradition is extremely important, and also that if decided by Governor Budd against her it will at once relieve a long standing and congested department of the law in California. If Mrs. Botkin can be extradited and sent to Dela- ware for trial W. R. Hearst of the yellow Examiner can be extradited and brought to San Francisco for the same purposé. A charge of criminal libel is pending against Hearst in one of the courts of this city upon which it has been impossible to try him. He is not a fugitive from justice, not having been here since the crime was committed, and the lawyers engaged in the case have been compelled to drop the prosecution until he ventures into the State. As the yellow fellow is never likely to visit California and stand trial, or constitute himself a fugitive from jus- tice by appearing and running away, he is practically beyond the reach of our people. A decision adverse to Mrs. Botkin would, however, present the large number of men in California who are anxious to meet Hearst an opportunity to force an interview. The Examiner's libelees are as numerous as leaves in the bowers of Vallombrosa. Indeed, they are known to constitute a small army. Were he to visit this city and were they to meet him at the ferry, no political hero would be more warmly or numerously “received.” These gentlemen all re- gard the Botkin case with interest. They are filled with a desire to once more cast their eyes upon the yellow journalist, and they perceive a beacon of light in that litigation. We do not exactly hope the Governor of Dela- ware will get possession of Mrs. Botkin; that would bf a rather unfeeling sentiment to express at this moment of her danger and distress. But it is not out of place to remark that if she shall be compelled to go to Delaware, Mr. Hearst can be compelled to come to San Francisco. The question is, Will the end justify the means? Perhaps Mrs. Botkin could be induced to make the sacrifice. Certainly if she desired to benefit this community she could discover no better cause in which to serve it than to aid us in getting Hearst out here and into one of our jails. Up tdthe present time we have been unable to ac- count for the earnestness with which Chief Lees has advocated extradition. It is now as plain as a pike- staff. He wants to establish a precedent by which he can get Hearst into one of his “tanks.” Chief. The entire State is with you in this matter, and may success crown your efforts. U Whether Captain Henry committed suicide or was assisted across the border, there seems no doubt but he carried a number of secrets with him. The Oregon’s chaplain is to be court-martialed. Tt seems that he not only talked too’ much, but was injudicious in selection of a text. Aiirg e T Count Esterhazy may not be a guilty wretch, but after contemplating his picture awhile one would find difficulty in believing it. As to the disarmament of Europe, every nation’| there is willing that any other nation there shall try | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. the expe.riment. ’ Rumors that Russia and China are in a secret pact recall that the lion and the lamb once made a com- 'days, the longest interval being fourteen days in the latter half Good boy, Bicycle is pronounced as if written bi- slk-1, the first { being sounded as it is in pine and the second as in pin. it most convenient method for cutting lawn GORDON AVENGED, AND WHAT IT MEANS. After thirteen years Chinese Gordon, the martyr of Khartoum, has been avenged. Thousands of Dervish skeletons, bleaching on the sandy Sou- dan desert; attest the fact that the long arm of the British Empire has at last stretched itself toward the innermost regions of Africa. The re- venge has been slow in coming, but it is all the more effective. The Kha- lifa and his fanatical followers have paid dearly for their perfidy. The prestige of British arms has been firmly established throughout TUpper Egypt, and one of the strongest fanatical outbreaks of the century has been utterly crushed. Egypt, regenerated by a long period of rest and good government, has won back the lost equatorial provinces that Sir Samuel Baker conquered for her in 1870, and a flood of light will now be thrown upon what has hitherto been one of the darkest and least known regions of the globe. It is no wonder that the magnificent victories at Atbara and Omdur- man have sent a thrill of joy from one end of the British Empire to the other; that is to say, around the globe. To a large section of the British public Gordon has always appeared in the light of a martyred hero, sacri- ficedgby the neglect and procrastination of the political party then in power. His followers erected a splendid statue to him in Trafalgar Square, and last Sunday, when the news of the British victories reached London, the scene must have been most impressive. Thousands of people as- sembled in the great square, under the very shadow of Nelson, who looked down upon the gathering from his lofty memorial column. And there, Wwith song and prayer, the avenging of Gordon was fittingly celebrated, his statue was decked with garlands, paeans of victory resounded every- Where, for all England felt that the stigma of a great national disgrace had been removed. However, apart altogether from the question of revenge, the results of this forward movement will be stupendous, reaching even farther than we can at present forecast. It is not merely .that Britain, through Egypt, has added to her empire a province measuring some two million square miles, populated by twenty or thirty million people. She has opened for trade one of the most fertile regions of the world, the Upper Nile basin, and has laid, on solid rock, the foundations of a great African empire. Nothing now stands in the way of the accomplishment of Sir Cecil Rhodes’ great dream. The Napoleon of the Cape may yet see a railway from Capetown to Cairo, running all the way through British territory. He may live to bring the whole eastern coast of Africa under the national rule, throwing open to commerce the densely populated and immensely productive regions of Central Africa. It is a fitting sequel to the pioneer work of Baker and Livingston, Gordon and Stanley. No wonder that such an event has had a marked effect on European politics, But a few years ago, at the time of the abortive Transvaal ris- ing, the BEmperor of Germany openly sympathized with the Boers, and brought his nation to the brink of war in consequence. Popular feeling in England rose to the boiling point. The antagonism to Germany was so strong that it actually extended to commercial circles, and for a time all German made goods were boycotted by the British. Nothing but the rapid mobilization and dispatch of a powerful naval squadron prevented war, for even the hot headed young Emperor saw that it was time to re- frain from further action. To-day the same Emperor is the first to send a telegram congratulat- ing the Queen on the splendid victory achieved by her troops. He addresses his soldiers in language appreciative of the English. Everything indicates that the Anglo-German alliance is an accomplished fact, and is going to prove a potent influence in European politics. Also in America, for we cannot ignore the truth that, since the war with Spain, we have become one of the great powers, and may no longer excuse ourselves under the plea that Europe’s business is none of ours. For good or evil, the thing has been done, and the United States has definitely taken her place in what diplomatists facetiously call the European concert. Even France, chafing bitterly under secret resentment, feels bound to applaud, for the Temps, an official organ, remarks: ‘A march so scienti- fically planned may be likened to the solution of a mathematical equation.” Coming from such a source, this is high praise, indeed, for the victory em- phasizes, with a finality which can never be undone, the utter rout of French schemes in Egypt. At one time, during the second empire, French interests were everywhere supreme in the Khedive’s land. The language was generally spoken in educated circles, the finances of the state were con- trolled by Frenchmen; even the Khedive's court was modeled on that of Napoleon III. It was an era of unlimited display and extravagance. The unfortunate fellah groaned bitterly under his load of taxation, but there were fine times for Europeans at Cairo. The construction of the Suez canal, the greatest of all French works, brought millions of money into the land, but even this triumph of De Lesseps’ engineering and financial skill proved of no permanent benefit to the nation. The control of the canal has long since passed out of French hands, and England to-day, thanks to Lord Beaconsfield’s coup, is the largest shareholder. fi The decline of French influence in Egypt dates from the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882. Arabi Pasha's suctessful revolt against the impo- tent rule of the Khedive compelled European interference. France had her warships on the scene, as well as England, but at the last moment she backed out and left the latter nation to do all the work. The task, for trained forces, was a comparatively easy one. The Egyptian soldier, in Arabi Pasha’s time, was vastly different from what he is to-day. No one at that date thought he had any fighting blood in him. He was regarded with utter contempt by European soldiers, and Wolseley, at Tel el Kebir, walked over his intrenched position with the utmost ease. From that period the Government of Egypt passed practiecally into Eng- lish hands, and France strove vainly to regain her lost position. Diplo- matically, and by every other means, she has endeavored to thwart British rule. On the mixed tribunal, with Russia to aid her, she has systemat- ically opposed every scheme put forward for the fellahs’ benefit. Over and over again she has invited Great Britain, politely and otherwise, to let g0 and come out of that; but John Bull has invariably replied that he was not quite ready; there were still a few little things which required atten- tion before Egypt could be safely trusted to Gallic rule. France’s impotent rage has made her the laughing stock of Europe, and meanwhile the work of regeneration has gone steadily on. Egypt to-day is admittedly in a more prosperous condition than at any previous period of her existence. All the extravagant splendor of an Oriental court has van- ished, and in its place we have a sober, matter-of-fact administration, car- ried on by men who have spent their whole lives governing Orientals. Hence the taxes are light and the fellah, secure in the possession of his gains, is rapidly becoming a wealthy peasantry. English non-commis- sioned officers, celebrated in verse by Kipling, took the native army in hand and the success of the work has been proved beyond dispute by re- cent events. The once despised Egyptian has become a splendid fighting machine, capablé, under efficient leadership, of going anywhere and doing anything. Finally, to crown the edifice, we have the recapture of the lost Sou- dan provinces. The Anglo-German alliance places England’s position, with regard to Egypt, on an assured basis. John Bull's valid title to the country is practically accepted bv Europe, and the protests of France and Russia, now hopelessly isolated, will avail naught. Nor is John Bull likely to let go of his own accord. On the day when the British soldiers held solemn funeral service within the walls of conqueréd Khartoum, they commemor- ated, with patriotic fidelity, the martyr whose death their victorious arms had avenged. But they also celebrated an enormous accession to the re- sources and power of the British Empire. Gordon is avenged and the em- pire enlarged. It is a happy conjunction of -events. J. F. ROSE-SOLEY. AN UNEXPECTED - SUNSPOT. VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE A record of solar observations during the last ten months that sunspot phenomena were approaching the minimum of the From October 17, 1897, to March 18, 1898, a period of 151 days, served on 126 days, during which thirty spots appeared on the disk, and thelr indicated clearly eleven year cycle. the sun was ob- varfous durations caused it to present a spotted aspect on ninety-q terspersed with intervals of unspottedness amounting in all t’oe‘f:te::yy-z‘lgl:; of March 18 to August 15 of the present year, a succeeding period of (e)g‘llzlzeri;?:hm observations were taken 113 days, seventy-three of which revealed a state of activity due to the coming and duration of nineteen spots; while on forty days the disk was an unbroken white tract, sixteen consecutive days of unspotted- ness having occurred in April. . The Instrument used was a four-inch telesco; withstanding the marked indications of these comp: calms have not yet arrived. On the morning of September 2 area was discernible close to the limb of the sun. In the a.(t:n::;ieul::nngz was visible, and on the 3d it was seen to be. the largest that has appeared in some years. On the 4th inst. it had changed in form, ana the enormous umsbm seemed pm‘:llly clilvided. As shown in fully divided on September 6th, the large tract of encireling ; - maining entire. This lighter portion is about 51,000 miles mglex;egl:;m:;: :gi‘enrdes from about 8 degrees to 15 degrees south, heliographic latitude. 2 This great disturbance of the sun’s surface, which has com. t - son, is now visible without magnifying power; and as it cros:e: umg!c:::ersegt the disk may be seen for several days, unless the 'pred,omlnaung solar calms in- terfere with its duration. R ; San Francisco, September 6. OSE O'HALLORAN. De, with a low power. Not- ared data the expected solar the day following e illutration, it Brass is to use est way is to small lawn. LIME JUICE CORDIAL—Subseriber, City. Ona of the best preventives against mfiuon of uime juice al is to P the preparation in a place. BROWN HAIR-X, City. There are 2 lawn mower, The cheap- use a hand sickle, if it is a BICYCLE—Volunteer, Presidio, City. LAWN GRASS—Subscriber, City. The number of preparations for the darken- la;‘.g of brown I:Jl' gther colored hair, which P can be obtained from any first-class & pharmacist. DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE——G..BOEfl. der Creek, Cal. The lighthouse service is included under the civil service rules in the departmental service. PEACE—W. F., (“!ty, General orders announced that all volunteers are entitled to discharge when peace is declared, but peace has not yet been declared. THE YUKON RIVER—A Number of 01d Subscribers, City. The Yukon River Is usually closed by ice from November to May of each year, and during that time is unnavigable. It does not freeze solid. The fish found there in summer, With the exception of salmon. as a ge eral thing, remain in the river. A ftr. eler writing of the northern country s that in winter, if not too cold, the In- dians go on the river, cut holes in the ice, and draw up fish by means of bone hooks. S MINERS' DRILL CONTEST—Miner, Coulterville, Cal. At the miners’ drill con- test, during the Golden Jubilee, P. and John Feeney and Joe Larkin entered the «t on behalf of Nevada County, and Page, John Kitto and John Ding! Lewis ) : on behalf of Tuolumne County. The were two_prizes, $225 and $120. The dri ing was fifteen minutes in solid granite. A he expiration of that time Nevada hz:d‘drillpd 36% inches and Tuolumne 41§ inches. Tuolumne won the first prize by 4% inches. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. W. R. Forman of Antioch is at the Grand. Colonel R. Williams, M. P., is at the Palace. Lester L. Morse of Santa Clara is at the California. A. Ogden, a mining man of Sonora, is at the Grand. Marion de Vries of Stockton is at the California. S. H. Callen, a journalist of Willlams, is at the Grand. W. G. Japper, a rancher of Wheatland, is at the Grand. H. H. Seaton, a merchant of Arbuckle, is at the Grand. The Rev. Dr. Alexander of Watsonville is at the Occidental. N. C. Gregg and family of Honolulu are guests at the Russ. John D. Bicknell, a lawyer of Los An- geles, is at the Palace. & A. B. Willis of the Record-Union, Sac- ramento, is at the Russ. W. Sharwood, a mining man of Susan- ville, is at the Occidental. Dr. Harold Sidebotham of Santa Bar- bara is at the California. W. R. Englebright, a merchant of Ne- vada City, is at the® Lick. E. C. W. Macdonald, a fruit-grower of Aptos, is at the Occidental. Russel Heath, a big land-owner of Santa Barbara, is at the Lick. F. A. Hihn, the capitalist, of Santa Cruz, is a guest at the Occidental. D. R. Wilson of Magdalen College, Ox- ford, is among the guests at the Palace. D. A. Lowry, Joseph Becierdon and J. H. Hollinshed, of Dawson, are at the R W. G. Nevin and son and Dr. N. H. Morrison of Los Angeles are at the Palace. Thomas McMullen, H. A. Fer~uson and wife, and Mrs. A. Calder, of Dawson, are at the Palace. W. M. Conley, the Democratic -ominee for Justice of the Supreme Court, is reg- istered at the Lick. M. Winés, the well-known stage prietor of Santa Barbara, registered the Grand yesterday. pro- at l.athan Joseph has returned from a visit to the Omaha Exposition and subsequent- 1y an outing at Lake Tahoe. Mrs. B. N. Beecher, wife of the wealthy Dawsonite, has just returned from the Klondike and fs at the Occldental. The Central overland brought in the fol- lowing guests to the Palace: Bruce Cart- wright and son and Miss Cartwright, on their way to their home in Honolulu; and J. Lamb Douty of Washington, D. C. — e T Cal glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.s —_——— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by ths Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main . The Japanese jinriksha-puller who saved the life of Alexander III and re- celved therefor a present of $10,000, spent that sum in a few years and then com- mitted suicide. 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 Collc, 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 Mra Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 25c a bottle, —_———— First and Sscond Class rates again reduced via the Santa Fe route. Call at the new ticket office, 623 Market. HOTEL DEL CORONADO-Take advantage of the round-trip tickets. Now only $60 by steamship, including fifteen days’ board at ho- tel; longer stay $2 50 per day. Apply at 4 New Montgomery street, San Francisco. —_———— SLEEPLESSNESs, Indigestion and Pain are hor- ors that PARKER'S GINGER ToNIC will abate. PABKER'S HAIR BALSAM aids the hair growth, —_— e ———— Only the best for the best only. Among the Barrels, §63 Market st. —_—————— ‘When carbolic acid is to be used as a disinfectant, it should be mixed with boil- ing water. It.is more soluble, and the two combined into a solution will keep for weeks. ADVERTISEMFENTS. PSS A~ AN NN MACKAY’S FURNITURE GOING : OUT! NOT OUT OF STYLE, BUT OUT OF THE STORE. This department is being rapldly closed out—an opportunity for furnish- ing & home seldom offered. Take ad- vantage of it while assortment is still complete. Solid Oak Center Tables. 45¢ Bed_Lounges (pa 25 A LARGE NUMBER Par- lor Pleces—China_ Closets, Sideboards. DINING TABLES and Chamber Suits at positively cost. THIS SALE is genuine, and we in- vite your inspection of the values. CARPETS! In This Department During FURNITURE CLOSE OUT LOW PRICES PREVAIL. We are now showing a most beauti- ful dnnd complete line of Carpets in all ades. mething new—Rangpur Carpets...45¢ An Elegant Quality of Linoleum....45¢ Speclal This Week—A Big Line— LOWELL, Bigelow and Hartford Axminster, all the rich colorin A ALEX. HACKAY & SON, 715 Market St.