The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 21, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1898. .OCTOBER 21, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. [SUSERASSSSESSSOP BB SO PPN Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager, e L A R S S S A PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Mafn 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS.. -2IT to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1574 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents @ weels By mall $6 per year; per month 68 cents. | THE WEEKLY CALL .One year, by mail. $1.50 OAKLAND OFFIKCE.......... 908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Bullding DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE .Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. | £HICAGO OFFICE ...Marquetto Building | C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertlsing Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o’clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 MocANister street, open uptil 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o’clock. 1941 Mission street, open until [0 o'clock. 2201 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. 1505 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'cloek. AMUSEMENTS Baldwin—"Love {n Hai Columbia vy the Sad Sea Waves.”™ Alcazar- aight From the Heart.” ueen.” Orpheum— Comed er—‘Where's Matilda?" y Th Vaudeville and the Zoo. . Eddy streets—Specialties. n Coursing Saturday and Sunday. Temple—Ci Thursday Evening, October 27. ' Hall—Masquerade Ball, Saturday, October 22. Swimmine. ming in February. STRIKE THEM dLL DOWN. N his concurring opinion in the case of Fitch vs. the Board of Supervisors, decided by the Supreme Court at Los Angeles on Monday, Justice Garoutte calls attention to one of the of the in a way that is striking as well as ilIumm-; [— contentions fi plain ating. According to the act under which Fitch brought his. suit to oust the Supervisors he says: “Non-| periormance of the official duty of fixing water rates | in the month of February is declared to be malfeas- ance in office.” In following the act the trial court, | therefore, substantially impeached the entire board, since its judgment went to the removal of all its mem- bers for malfeasance. In short, he declares that the statute of March 7, 1881, provides for the punishment of innocent as well as guilty Supervisors—in other words, the impeach- ment and removal of those who honestly endeavor to fix rates in February majority, fi as well as those who, being in a refuse to fix them in that month. | Justice Garoutte also directs attention to the fact that Judge Wallace declares in his findings that some of the Supervisors are innocent, and yet he enters a decree removing them from office. The learned Jus- tice regards this interpretation of the law as mon- | strous, and says: The Legislature has no power to pass an act vis- iting these serious consequences upon innocent men, | and, as a necessary result, any act attempting mf enforce such a power is unconstitutional. A de.| termination as to the exact limits of the power of the Legislature in declaring what acts of the indi- | vidual shall constitute a crime is an interesting and possibly difficult question, considered in the light of | the constitution. But there is no difficulty in de- | claring, in the light of the constitution, that a Leg- | islature has no power to say that one man wholly innocent is guilty of crime and shall be punished because another man fails to perform his official | duty. The power of the Legislature reaches no such | limit. It cannot be done under our form of govern- ment. I shall not concern myself in pointing out the particular provision of the constitution forbidding it. I find it between the lines. The whole spirit of the | instrument denies the right to do it. We agree with Justice Garoutte that the whole doc- | trine is infamous. Moreover, we are willing to add | what was evidently in the mind of the jurist, that the men who conceived and executed the doctrine, giving to it the authority of judicial decision, are infamous . men and unfit for American citizenship. Some of them are running for office at the present moment in this city. The people should ascertain their names and repudiate them. Mayor Phelan headed this entire conspiracy against American lib- erty and should be rebuked first. A man who attempts to establish such a doctrine has no place in the gov- ernment and should not be permitted to exercise power of any kind. He is unfit to hold the office of poundkeeper. w Fifth, Seventh, Ninth and Tenth wards think of Mr. Phelan’s assertion that no man among them is qualified to be a Supervisor? What do they think of his acts and advice by which cach of these wards has been colonized with a candidate of his selection? How do they receive his “holier than thou” suggestion of their universal unfitness to hold a public office? How will they vote on election day with the sting of this insult still hot upon their faces and burning in their hearts? Mr. Phelan declares that his committee on nomina- tion reported to his Committee of One Hundred that “suitable” men could not be found in any one of these wards for the office of Supervisor. What does Mr. Phelan mean by “suitable men”? Does he mean honest men? Surely there must be one honest man in these five wards. Does he mean capable men? Surely in this large section of owr city there is one man at least both honest and capable enough to be a Super- visor. What, then, does Mr. Phelan mean by the term ‘“suitable men”? Perhaps he means “service- able men.” If so, it is quite probable that Mr. Phelan was not able to pick out any of his sort of “service- able man” in any of those five wards. But even that should not have tempted him to commit the mis- demeanor of inducing five other men to commit a wrong. AN INSULT TO CITIZENS. HAT do the residents and voters in the Third, e —————— Chief Surgeon Huidckeper of the volunteers has been honorably discharged. There will be no ob- MR. HEARST AND HIS PAPER. T is not pleasant to have to pause in the dignified and proper discussion of public issues to respond to the provocation offered by a coward without character, a cur with none of the instincts which make even curs worth the tax and the collar which keep them out of the pound. Mr. Hearst has chosen to conduct this campaign with mud which he flings at persons rather than to discuss principles and apply policies. Therefore it becomes necessary to recall the offen- sive personality of this man, who was so longa fugitive, to the attention of the people of this ‘city, from the midst of whom he fled, and to which for years he dare not return, while the courts waited fo get jurisdiction of him to punish his offenses against decency. From the beginning of his newspaper career Hearst was a blackmailer. The tendency was as marked as if inherited. He haggled for a price on his silence as shamelessly as a thief bulling the value of stolen goods at the pawnbroker’s. His paper has for years professed anti-railroad sen- timents, and yet whenever it m‘ght have been for- midable to the railroad its silence has been offered at a price. When the Pattison Commission was here in 1887 probing into Southern Pacific affairs there was an op- portunity for the Examiner to make good its anti- railroad pretenses. But it sold its forbearance, pock- eted its price and maintained an innocuous attitude until the commission was gone. Hearst’s $30,000 contract with the Southern Pacific is notorious history. He entered into a written treaty, which he signed, a copy of which is in existence, to give the Southern Pacific “fair treatment” for the period of thirty months, covering two sessions of the ; Legislature. The verbiage of the treaty completely reveals the threat by which he forced the corporation | into it. If it would not be blackmailed into buying | fair treatment of this perverted fellow, the publicity | at his command in his paper would be used in treat- ing it unfairly. No fact that can be brought to the attention of men is more firmly established than this blackmailingd treaty. The advertising contract which | | cloaked it, and which referred to it as a condition of | the superimposed contract, was hypothecated at a bank and was paid to within $8000 of the $30,000 it | called for, when the Southern Pacific stopped pay- ment because Hearst had violated his treaty for “fair | treatment” of the corporation. If the only element | in the transaction were the advertising contract, why does he not sue for the $8000 balance? If the treaty that underlies the contract were an open, legi!imatcl and proper transaction, as it is made a part of the ad- | vertising contract, why does he not go into the courts on it and prove that he treated the corporation fairly | by proving that the things he printed about it were | | true and therefore “fair,” and not in violation of the treaty? | He does not go into the courts because the black- mailing treaty would be declared against good con- | science or public policy. The courts would decide | that a newspaper cannot make a legal contract to abstain from unfair treatment of an individual or a corporation for a money consideration. The courts would decide that Mr. Hearst was a blackmailer, and | the public that he was a blackguard, when he held up the Southern Pacific and made it agree to pay him $30,000 for thirty months’ “fair treatment.” While_he was a fugitive from civil justice in this State, avoiding the jurisdiction of California courts, | he managed his paper through another blackmailer, | the fellow Lawrence. We carry on no controversy with him. We kick the dog, not his flecas. Of course it is unpleasant for citizens to be held up to public contempt by the libels which Lawrence prints, as the biting of any parasite is annoying. But we realize that 2 cur must have parasites, and that those who live | on Hearst gain in their power to annoy, as flies gain in poison by the carrion on which they gender. When Lawrence uses a pretense of charity to ad- vertise the Examiner and pinches the proceeds; when he lies, fakes, libels and slanders, he is living up to his nature, it is true, but he does it because he is the parasite of a cur. The paper, which is feculent with the corruptions and blackmailing of Hearst, is selected as the organ of reform by the purists who are pretending to rectify politics while striving for power to be used under the dictation of a blackmailer. Mayor Phelan takes or- ders from Hearst's parasite, and wig-wags as Law- rence’s thumb is raised. The Mayor has a right-to select his methods and the men with whom he con- sorts, or whose orders he obeys. The decent com- munity have also the right to judge him by the com- pany he keeps, and he cannot complain. It may be that there is a section of public opinion, not a highly commendable opinion, that a corporation is the legitimate prey of the blackmailer Hearst. But the vicious and immroral use of his newspaper is not confined to the blackmailing of corporations. Its silence has been bought and paid for when it had in its possession knowledge that if published would have prevented crime and protected the rights of the help- less. When the Pacific Bank was rotting and was sap- ping the funds of the savings bank which belonged to thousands of poor depositors, the Examiner gained a perfect knowledge of the situation, and instead of publishing it in time to prevent the robbery of the savings depositors, it sold its silence to the robbers for a money consideration, which was taken out of the funds of those deposifors. Instead of timely warning of the robbery, it joined the robbers and took its share of the spoil. This will not be denied for Mr. Hearst by his parasite, for the evidence is in existence and is ample. The record of Hearst is abhorrent. When it is studied every fair-minded man is convinced that when he exposes offenses in his paper a blackmail dicker with the offender has failed, and those who may be jection. He is said to be a good horse doctot, and that is an honorable calling. Indictment of the manager of a matrimonial bureay merely means the extension to him of an opportunit: to jump bail. S ‘When Democrats “get together” the one nearest victims of burglars, or bank looters, or corporate crime or individual transgression, have the right to assume that Hearst has fattened his wallet out of their spoliation by selling his silence to their de- spoiler. Let no one say that this is a newspaper quarrel, for the door will be wise to put his head out and yell for | it is not. It is no more a newspaper quarrel-than the the police. exposure of a bank burglar is a quarrel between lock- When Mayor Phelan talked over the telephone to | Makers because the robber is a lockpicker. The hang- the Mayor of Portland, he did not tell him a word of | ing of a man who has murdered with a razor may be | is a joy as much to be sought aiter as a post in the what he knew concerning the subject of colonization. | indorsed by an honest barber without exposing him | navy. to the accusation of jealousy. A wretch may be pun- ished for infanticide by malpractice without calling it a doctors’ quarrel, and a shyster may be disbarred without ascribing it to the professional jealousy sof lawyers. We treat the case of this cur, Hearst, from the same standpoint, our interest in it being only that of the citizen who is entitled to protection in his good name, without being compelled to make a contract with Hearst for “fair treatment.” THE HONORABLE JACOB NEFF. T no time in the Republican State Convention fl was the enthusiasm greater than at the nomi- nation of Jacob Neff for the office of Lieu- tenant Governor. Throughout the State there - was felt the same delighted pride in the choice. His nom- ination was everywhere ratified with the heart as well as with the brain, for honest Jacob Neff is one of those genial, whole-souled men whom the people love and whom they are always glad to honor and to ele- vate to high office. No other man so completely represents all Califor- nia‘as Mr. Nefi. He has been identified with its his- tory and its advancement from the days of the pio- heers. He is known in the city and in the country; among the farmers of the valleys and among the miners of the mountains. Gifted in a high degree with the faculty of making and retaining friendships, he counts his personal friends by the thousands, while his reputation has won for him the esteem of thou- sands more who have never met him. It has not been by good fortune or by popular caprice that Mr. Neff has won this high place in the esteem of the community. It is his because he has mer- ited it. He has made friends among all classes of people because he has shown himself friendly to all classes. He has been kindly, hospitable, helpful, in all the relations of life. He has not lived for himself alone. He has borne his share of public duties and has been as faithful and as energetic in the perform- ance of them as in the conduct of his private business. He can, therefore, count upon the permanence of the esteem of his friends, neighbors and fellow citizens, because it is based upon the solid foundation of ser- vice rendered and good work well done. So great is the personal popularity of Mr. Neff that many persons are apt to overlook the political reasons why his election should be brought about. The office of Lieutenant Governor is by no means an unimport- ant one. Outsideof the fact that he succeeds to the gov- ernorship under certain contingencies, he is charged with the duty of presiding over the deliberations of the Senate, and has therefore considerable power and influence in the direction of legislation. A Demo- cratic Lieutenant Governor could seriously hamper a Republican Senate in carrying out policies for the general welfare, while a Republican Lieutenant Gov- ernor could and would materially facilitate their adoption and enactment. Mr. Neff is peculiarly well fitted to perform the duties of president of the Senate. His abilities as a presiding officer of deliberative bodies are well known. They have been often demonstrated. His knowledge of parliamentary law has been gained by a large ex- perience as well as by study. He is firm, just, impar- tial and prompt. The voters in this campaign who have long been residents of California can hardly need urging to cast their ballots for grand old Jacob Neff. He is dear both to the pioneers and to the native sons. He rep- resents alike the capital and the labor of the State, the patriotism and the industries of the people. His personal popularity and political strength taken to- gether render him invincible by any opponent. Let his election be given by a majority the State can be proud of. QJ carry a purse made of human skin is one of the problems still awaiting solution, and considera- tion of which has aroused interest in this community. There is, as a rule, an instinctive reverence for the dead, and this natural emotion often takes the form of an actual horror of contact with a corpse. The mummy is the only style of cadaver which fails to ex- cite a thrill of repugnance, but it is so old and its per- sonality so lost somewhere along the corridors of time that it does not count. But the tanned skins worn by the local belle were stripped from a comparatively recent entity. They sug- gest @n individual existence. They recall the pallid face on the pauper’s cot, the rigid form from which the covering was torn for the bedecking of another form which one day will be as dead and as fair an object of prey for the ghoulish. However, one girl has taken a decided lead. Her apartments are decor- ated with a human eye, a staring, unwinking, pickled human eye, which, snatched from the socket of a corpse and having been prepared by the loving hands of medical students and placed in a case of skin, was presented to this gentle maid. That eye ought to enter into her dreams. It should haunt her. It should peer at her through the dark- ness, making hér, terrified and hysterical, seek refuge under the bedclothes. It ought to look daggers in the direction where her soul would be had not nature kindly so constructed her as to be free from such an annoying tenant. It is impossible to esteem the girl whe regards human skin, aside from her own, as a suitable cover- ing, or who courts the presence of a pickled eye. S ~ THE GREWSOME GIRLIE. UST why a girl should desire to wear a belt or The Examiner says there is a “deluge of money” in this campaign. The statement can hardly be ac- cepted. If the Republicans were spending coin cor- ruptly, as intimated, the Examiner, instead of expos- tulating, would be standing with editorial palm ex- tended and singing with unction, “Let Some Drop- pings Fall on Me.” Mayor Phelan asks in what way he has done aught against the interests of labor. Well, for one thing, he has declared that the lamplighters to whom the gas company—an institution not noted for bigness of soul—pays $40 a month would be well enough paid at $2s. There is always something new concerning the Chinese Emperor. He has been variously dead, well and hearty, and now he comes into notice as an in- valid. The Emperor seems to have an active press agent who lacks accuracy. “Democrats should get together” \exclaims the or- gan which is supposed to voice the common desire for purity and reform.© Why should any more of them get together? Isn’t the Committee of One Hundred a terrible enough example? If Keenan had exhibited the determination to kill himself that he showed when his wife was the victim, he would not now be troubled by dreams of the gal- lows. i e Ex-Chaplain McIntyre, late of the Oregon, can now have the satisfaction of s‘penkin¢ his mind, and this ¥ WANDERING CANDIDATES ARE NOW INELIGIBLE John L. Love on of Those the Legal Status Who Were Colonized. Recognizing the fact that John L. Love Esq. 'would be familiar with the election laws, since he was for four years Attorney General “of the State, four years Assistant District Attorney of San Francisco and for two years City and County Attorney for San Francisco and as such a member of the Election Commission, The Call asked him to give a legal opinion on the status of Mayor James D. Phelan, the candidates for Supervisor who have registered in wards in which they do not live and of the members of ‘the sub-committee of “One Hundred” upon whom the re- sponsibility Is being thrown, assuming that what has been printed in The Call is true. The following is Mr Love's reply: SAN FRANCISCO, October 20, 1898. To the Editor of The Call—Sir: In an- swer to your communication, I will give you my ideas upon the subject from a egal standpoint as plainly as I can. hen the consolidation act was passed, each ward was represented by a Super- visor, who was a citizen and voter of that ward and who was elected by the voters of that ward only. This led to what was called “colonizing,” and it was this sit- uation which coined the word and put it into politics. To do away with this evil, the Legis- lature, which at that time, under the old constitution, had the power to amend the consolidation act, passed a law that the Supervisors should be voted for by the wholel city and county and not by wards, but they still adhered_to the proposition that a candidate for Supervisor must be an actual and not ‘‘temporary” resident of the ward he was to represent. This is the law to-day. After the adoption of the new constitu- tion in 1879, it became impossible for the Legislature to meddle with our consoli- dation act in any way. To general laws we are amenable, but not to any special act. Some one pushed an act through the last Legislature abolishing the wards, for what object or for what purpose I can- not guess, unless it is the situation that now stares us in the face. That some attorneys said this act is un- constitutional and special legislation isthe main excuse of Mayor Phelan and his followers for their dereliction in register- ing prospective candidates for Supervisors in wards and precincts in which they do not belong. There is not a lawyer worthy of the name who does not know that the law abolishing the wards is unconstitutional and of no force or effect. They might as well have abolished the consolidation act as a whole; and the committee of one hundred and Mr. Phelan admit it when they say that they resorted to false and fraudulent registration “in case the courts should so decide.”” This fear of the courts is one of the numerous excuses Mr. Phe- lan gives for what has been done. There is a very sharp edge to this business somewhere, for I notice the Mayor is al- ways very careful to say “I didn’t do it I propose to demonstrate from the statute law that all of these registrations of Supervisors named by fmu. except one, Were | fraudulent and felonlous, and if they vote on such registration they will commit anotner felony. The Sternberg case affords very little light, for the reason that this case went on the question whether the crime had been proven or not, as_to whether the accomplices who ‘“gave Sternberg away’ were corroborated or not. It was ad- mitted on all sides that it was a crime. Now I am about to_quote from the Sternberg case, and see, Mr. Editor, if you can dlszfnbzulsh it from the one we are writing about. People vs. Sternberg, 111 California Re- orts, p. 4. x“‘chshaw, J. Defendant was charged with procuring and allowing A. Gutman to be registered as a voter in the pre- clnet register of a precinct in which he was not entitled to be registered. The prosecution was had under and by vir- tue of the provisions of the purity of elections act (Stats. . ?. 2%. The of- fense charfid comes within the purview of section thereof. “Gutman, called by the prosecution, testifled that dete!gin.nt requested him to register from the Baldwin o(el‘ so that he could vote for Mahoney. WX was shown that Gutman did not resids at the hotel, and that he did reside at 172_Clara street.” Now is there any distinction between voting for Mahoney or for yoursgelf for Supervisor? Is there any distinction be- tween the Baldwin Hotel and the Occi- dental Hotel, the Nob Hill House and the Coso House? The court says further on, at page 8: “Every person (and the court “puts the words ‘every person’ in italics) who willfully causes, procures or allows false registration is punishable,” ete., 1 particularly call your attention to the words ‘“who willfully causes, procures or allows false registration,” because this expression runs all through the Penal Code and the purity of elections act. Now, let us find out who is entitled to run for office and who is entitled to_vote. Under the constitution of the State, article II, section 1, among other things, & man in order to vote must be a citi- zen and resident of the precinct thirty days. This means a bona fide residence, one taken I;fl in good faith with the in- tent to remain. Section 1239 of the Political Code is as follows:. ““The Board of Election in determining the place of residence of any person must be governed by the following rules: * * * “l. That place must be considered and held to be the residence of a person in which his habitation 1s fixed, and to which whenever he is absent be has the intention of returning. “5. A person must not be considered to have gained a residence in any precinct into whi¢ch he comes for ‘temporary’ pur- poses merely, without the intention of making such precinct his home.” In the Examiner of October 19, 1898, Mayor Phelan is quoted as saying: ‘““There is not the least suspicion of ille- gality about the ‘temporary’ change of residence. The candidate went into an- other ward for a definite purpose.” I suppose it is fair to ask what the pur- ose was. Was it to vote for Mr. Ma- oney for Senator, or Mr. Some One Else for semblyman, or for himself for Su- ervisor, or for the greater glory of Mr. 'helan himself? Sternberg must begin to feel that he has been g(ret% badly treated. I would sug- est, Mr. Editor, that you address a note 0 Judge Wallace, who sentenced Stern- berg toprison (and of whom the Examiner says: He is facile princeps as a Judge), that he distinguish this case from the Sternberg case; of course not pointing out the culprits. | To show that the same jdea runs all | through the election laws—that is, that a man must vote from his own home and | not around the corner—I call your atten- | tion to the law in regard to challen%m 1 a vote. There are certain questions als‘ down, which the election officers must put to be answered under oath, and among others, these: ‘“‘Section 1233, Political Code—l. When did you last come into this county or elec- tion” precinct? ‘2 ‘hen‘f‘au came into this county or | precinct did you come for a temporary | purpose merely, or for the purpose of making it your home? ‘3. Did _you come into this county or precinct for the purpose of voting here?” | The lawmakers ought to have put in another question: Did you comse to run for Bupervisor? Section 1239 reads as follows: ‘“The Board of Electior, in determining the place of residence of any person, must be governed by the fcllowing rules, as far as they are applicable: That place must be considered and held to be the residence of a person in which his babitation is fixed and to which whenever he is absent he has the inten- tion of returning.” I understand from the statements made in your paper, which I am taking all the time as true, that some of the wandering | Supervisors have already announced tha 'S0 soon as the election is over they are | going home, whichever way it goes.” Subdivision 5 of this same section reads as follows: “A person must not be considered to have gained a residence in any precinct into which he comes for temporary pur- poses merely, without the intention of making such precinct his home.” Mayor Phelan can hardly plead ignor- ance of the law when he says to the Ex- aminer that *“there is not the least sus- piclon of illegality about the temporary change of residence * ® e That word “‘temporary’’ occurs too often | in the law, and it rested unruly in his rain. ‘Without quoting any more from the| statutes, It is clear that these gentlemen in thelr zeal to do something are im- properl{ registered, and it is clearly the duty of the Registrar and the Board of Election Commissioners to serve them with a citation, and, after hearing, strike their names from the Great Register. I cannot see how any one of the persons registered away from their every-da homes will dare vote. If T am rlant, 1{ would be a felony if they aid. Suppose none of them vote, that all kee) away from the polls and that they all polled a majority vote In the city and county, still they would be ineligible and could not hold the office, because they were not ‘ntitled to vote. “And no person is eligible to an office who is not an elector.” (Political Code, section ii‘% Re- spectfully, JOHN L. VE. AROUND THE CORRIDORS Charles H. Dick of Los Angeles is at the Palace. 8. Hopkins, a Grass Valley mining man, is at the Palace. R. A. Eddy, a prominent Montana law- yer, is at the Palace. B. F. Allen, State Superintendent of Forests, is at the Russ. A. W. Rennie, a well-known Hongkong banker, is at the Palace. Dr. P. N. Russell, the well-known Fres- no physician, is at the Lick. J. E. Gillles, a prominent New York merchant, is at the Palace. H. H. Hirshfeld, a prominent fruit grow- er of Bakersfleld, is at the Lick. Dr. M. J. Davis, a prominent physician of Golconda, Nev., is at the Palace. J. 8. Goodwin, an old-time mining man of You Bet, is stopping at the Lick. L. G. Nesmith, the well-known San Jose banker, is a guest at the California. A. H. Sylvester, of the United States Geological Survey, is at the Occidental. ‘W. 8. McCluskey, a prominent attorney of Healdsburg, is a recent arrival at the Russ. Captain J. B. Overton, one of the chief owners of the Virginia City waterworks, is at the Russ. Colonel W. S. Stone, a large land owner and cattle raiser of Yreka, Is at the Russ, accompanied by his wife. Jullus P. Smith, a New Yorker largely interested in viticulture at Livermore, is a guest at the California. J. F. Colley, a prominent general mer- chant of Nevada City, accompanied by his family, is at the Lick. R. H. Mulholland of Independence, the well-known breeder of fancy stock, Is at the Russ, in company with Mrs. Mul- holland. Dr. Walter Maxwell, in charge of the Hawailan experimental station at Hono- lulu, sailed for Honolulu yesterday on the China. He is returning from an extended European trip, devoted largely to tne in- terests of the station under his charge. e is considered an authority on the pro- ?um and possibilities of the Hawalian, group, especially with reference to their adaptabllity for growing sugar cane. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YOREK. NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—W.' J. Andrews, W. F. Boardman, T. G. Fraser and wife, J. J. McDade and Dr. T. H. Morris of San Francisco and F. W. King of Los Angeles are .at the Imperial. Julian Sonntag and wife and Mrs. W. H. Mc- Kt of San "T"‘""“"-","?". Fifth Avenue. Sig Bauman and James T. Rucker of San Francisco are at the Netherland. A. Rothchild of San Fran- cisco is at the Marlborough. Mrs. W. M. G. Stafford of San Francisco is at the Manhattan. V. G. Hush of San Fran- cisco is at the Empire. D. G. Smith of Pasadena is at the Savoy. —— S WHEN YO’ ’SPECT TO SCOOT? want to 'quire, When yo' 'spect to scoot? Doan’ yo show yo’ Spanish ire, When yo’ "spect to scoot? Now an’ den we hears yo' talkin® Frew yo’ hat an’ kinduh balkin', + Reckon dat yo' bes’ be walkin'— ¢ en yo' 'spect to scoot? Mistah Blanco, fix yo’ trnuk up, ‘When yo' 'spect to scoot? On de_steamah fix yo' bunk up, é W?en 0’ 'spect to scoot? Yo' ain't mixed up in de mussin'; Folks all tired of yo' fussin’, Scon you'll git & Yankee cussin'— ‘When yo' "spect to scoot? Mistah Blanco, want to ax yo,’ When yo' 'spect to scoot? Doan’ want fo' to rush or tax yo' When yo' 'spect to scoot? Kain't yo' let up on that bluffin’'? Ain't yo' ear-sight good fo' nuthin’? Doan’t yo' hear dat steamboat puffin’? ‘When yo' 'spect to scoot? Mistah Blanco, please, suh, mention en yo' 'spect to scoot? ‘Want to show you some attention, When yo' *spect to scoot? &%n'toto t;‘y to dul yo' ‘%roud.lug: h me hen's aigs old an' loud, sah, ‘Which vou'd notice in a crowd, e ‘When f‘-’lo‘ 'spect to scoot? obart in Baltimore Amerl- JOKES PROPERLY SEASONED. To preserve peaches: Surround the or- chard with a high fence, topped with barbed wire.—Chicago Tribune. Visitor—What kind of & man is your neighbor, Mr. Flint? Farmer Hornbeak—Wa'al for one thing, he’s 0 stingy that he won't let bicyelists gl; ;heu\uru with air from his farm.— ck. “Yes sir,” sald Mr. Wimbiddle to a stranger, “I maintain that all water used for drinking and culinary purposes should be bolled at least half an hour.” “You are a physician, I presume?” “No; I am a coal dealer.”—Tit-Bits, “Why are you so unhappy, Elsie?” “My aunt doesn't llke me! She thinks Bertha is everything that's lovely, and of me she thinks nothing at all. First she talks about Bertha's wonderful hair, and then it's '‘Ah Bertha, what wonderful large eyes you have!' " Little Hans—Don't you you've just got tne loveliest | was!- Record. | Cross Society o ‘BUTCHER”. TOBACCO ADVANCE HIS EDICT RENDERED THE CUBAN LEAF SCARCE. American Consumers of High-Grade Cigars Are Made to Suffer the Consequences. Bernard Stahl, a guest at the Palace Hotel and one of the largest manufactur- ers of Havana cigars in the country, pos- Sesses interesting information concerning the effect of the recent troubles in Cuba upon the tobacco market. ‘So f{x'r as the American market is con- cerned,” he said yesterday, “the troubie ;:ng:enc:“dvi'n May, 1896, with the edict ner: eyler prohibiting the expor- tation of leaf tobacco from the isiand, ‘This edict was, of course, the work of the Cuban cigar manufacturers, and, if I mistake not, Weyler recelved a large sum for it. He went there, as everybo knows, a comparatively poor man an came away wealthy. is edict was in force until October, 1897. During that time American manufacturers were at their wits’ end for tobacco, and it went up from 75 to 100 per cent. Part of this advance, it is true, was due to the troubled condition of the island. The small farmer, with his or bales of tobacco, was in a bad way. Perhaps one day a band of insur- ents would demand $1 per bale for spar- ng his crop and the next day he would have to pay a similar sum to the Span- iards for alleged.lack of sympathy with their cause. ‘“How was the consumer affected? As a matter of fact, it all came out of him. He wouldn’t stand the differgnce in cost. and the manufacturer could rot. In other words, the consumer secured a poorer clgar. Even Connecticut tobacco was put into many well-known brands, that were introduced as and in fact were originally pure Havana. I doubt, however, If the consumers generally noticed much differ- ence. A large percentage of them judge a cigar by its price or the stamps on the box. I can see no chance of a good crop for at least two vears. My experience shows that the people of this coast re- quire more high-grade goods, proportion= ally, than the people of the iast.” —_—e————— ORDERS FOR THE INDIANA. The Finding of the Board in the Case of Captains Towers and Wat- son Approved: The formal order for the tramsport In- diana was issued yesterday from depart- ment headquarters. As has been stated, the Second and Third battalions of the Twentieth Kansas Regiment, with the fleld and staff and five hospital stewards, are assigned to the vessel. The order to sail has not yet been issued, but it is very probable that the Indiana will get away this week. The Ohio has required more repairing than was expected, and will not be able to sall until next week. The finding of the board of officers ap- inted to examine into the efficiency of aptains Towers and Watsonof the Kansas Regiment was submitted to General Mer- riam yesterday afternoon. The finding of the board was approved in both cases, and the report will now be forwarded to the Adjutant General at Washington. The board’s report was favorable to Cap- tain Watson and adverse to Captain Towers. Captain A. C. Gillem, First Tennesses, returned from his home yesterday. The captain has been absent on a thirty days’ furlough. He brought back with him | Privates Langham and Smith, who had de- serted and returned to Tennessee. First Lieutenant Delamere Skerrett, | Third Artillery, has been appointed quar- "“““'"J“S} co‘mmmsary at Fort n by_Gener: erriam. yl’(ecrults Leon G. Blet and Charles O. Golden, enlisted in_this city, have been Fort | assigned to the Fourth avalry, | ¥ 5wetone, Wyoming, and ordered to join their station. eant_Willlam C. Prull, Com- pany M, First New York, was tried vy | general ' court-martial at’ Honolulu for ;glsobedlenceflta ordel’-s m}d us;llxgg ab(‘lsh;e | age. He was found guilty and re- aeed %o’ the ranks, and forfeited $i5 of | his_pay. MW‘? g Hu.rrln{ton,\trea.surer of the Red this city, has gone to Los Angeles for the sqclety, authorized, if necessary to proceed with_ civil’ action agatnst Colonel John R. Berry for the | recovery of the $522 which he has and | Which the society claims he should turn | Dack to it, as his regiment is not goin | to Manila. The money_ was the result of |a drill given by the Seventh under the auspices of the Red Cross, and was | turned over to Colonel Berry with the | understanding that it was for the use of his regiment at Manila. The ladies of the society endeavored to get the money be- | fore Colonel Berry left, but were unsuc- | cessful. Colonel Berry claims that the | money belongs to the regiment and that | he will not return it unfil the regiment has been formally mustered out, and ot | then if the men need It. — et ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. LONDON—S., City. The area of Lon- | don i about 78200 acres, eq““n‘:" llzz uare miles. The population at the las sc%nsus. 1891, was 4,23143L THE AUTHOR—E., City. The verses entitled “Tim" frequently recited at gath- | erings and commencing “ ‘Yes, I am guil- | ty, the prisoner said” were written by | T.'M. Munyon. | QUARTERMASTER—W. E,, City. The officer of the depot quartermaster, U. S. A., who will take charge of small packages for soldiers at Manila, has his office at the depot on New Montgomery street, | near Mission. | Tl r | MINISTER OF WAR-—Subscriber, City. | There is no such office in the British Gov- | ernment as Minister of War, but thers is the Secretary of War. The following named have held that office since 1886: W. H. Smith, B. Stanhope, H. Campbell Bannerman and Marquis of Lansdowne. ANDREW JACKSON —S8., City. An- drew Jackson, seventh President of the United States, was the son of Andrew and Elizabeth Jackson. His father was born in Ireland, was of Scotch ancestry, and his mother, whose maliden name was Hutchinson, was the daughter of a linea weaver of Carrickfergus, Ireland. POPULATION AND DEBT—A. C, City. In 1860 the population of the United States was, as per census returns, 31,443,- $21; as there was no census in 1885 the figures cannot be given; in 1870 the popu- lation was 38,558,371. On July 1, 1865, the ublic debt was $2,680,647,869 74; July 1, TS5, f¢ was $2,773.236,178 60, In 1866 the population of France was $8,067,064; that was reduced by the cession to Germany of Alsace and part of Lor- raine to 86,594,845; in 1872 the population of Frans:e t"flcg’l‘&m'n’rhe ebt !of rance Jjus e anco-Pruss| WAt Was 22,622,500 000 francs. i | © First Ser; Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.® —_—— Special information supplied daily to business housci and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ Do tycm fully appreciate,” asked the earnest citizen, *‘the duty which every man owes to his country?”’ ““Well,” satd Senator Sorghum, apolo- seuan{, “I'm_getting aslittle rusty on that subject. You see, it's a good many years since I had anything to do with revenue collecting. ashington Star. —_————————— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used oves fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Paln, 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 Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Byrup. 2 a bottle. —— e Through Tourist Car to St. Paul. This car is nicely upholstered in leather, leaves every Tuesday night, no change. Goes via Shasta route and Northern Pacific Rall- ‘way. The scenic line of the continent. Tick- ets = ssale ‘f all Bastern citles at lowest rates. T. . Stateler, general 't . et agent, 638 Market st. —— HOTEL DEL CORONADO-—Take advantage of the round-trip tickets. Now only $0 by steamshlp, including ~fitteen days’ board at. hotel; longer stay $2 50 per day. Apply at