The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 24, 1898, Page 6

AL HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1898. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS. ...2I7 to 221 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 montb €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.............One year, by mail, $.5C OAKLAND OFFICE............. tereernessnesss.908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertlsing Representative, WASHINGTON (B. C.) OFFICE... Riggs House | €. C. CARLTON, Correspondcnt. CHICAGO OFFICE... .Marquette Bullding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advert ng Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open untll 930 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ane Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. | | | | | California Columbia: { Vaudeville and the Zoo. treets, Speclalties, Man, a er Mason and Edcy Park—Mission Zoo. ursing Park--Coursing. Oly Glen THUGS OF THE RING. | | the rapidity with which the flames spread are con- { upon its construction; but the type which it repre- ! sented should not be permitted again in the business | Baldwin Hotel. | | the boundaries were adopted the city has grown, and | | THE LESSONS OF THE FIRE. ISASTROUS as was the fire that destroyed the D Baldwin Hotel, the results would have been far worse had not the brave and energetic labors of the Fire Department been assisted by a species of good fortune. Had the night been windy | there is no telling how far the flames would have spread, or had a panic ensued among the startled guests it is probable the victims would have been | numbered by the scores. | Full credit will be given to the arduous work of the | firemen and to the skill with which that work was | directed. Nevertheless, when the nature of the huge | building, the time of night when the alarm was given, i the number of persons sleeping in the structure and | sidered, it will be seen that good reasons exist for accounting ourselves fortunate that the damage toi property and the destruction of life were not appall- ingly great. San Francisco cannot always count upon good | fortune to save her from the most direful conse- | quences of such disasters as this. It behooves those in | authority, therefore, to study well the lessons of the fire and profit by their teaching. They point an | emphatic warning against the toleration of fire traps | among the great structures in the crowded center of | the city. | A careful watch should be kept upon the construc- | n of buildings within the fire limits, and every- where upon all tall structures designed for habitation. When the Baldwin was built it was outside the center of the city, and fireproof construction was unknown to us. No particular blame, therefore, can be placed pertions of the community. | The lesson, moreover, should be acted upon at | once. There are reasons for believing the super- vision of buildings within the fire limits has been carelessly done, and that buildings are now in process of construction which are not even as good as was the | An examination should be made of | all these structures, and fire-proofing arrangements be required before it is permitted to complete them and open them for use. It will be further worth while to give consideration to the extent of the area within the fire limits. Since a considerable district left at that time outside the | HE prize-ring is a disgrace to the country. Tol- | T eration of it has bred a race of muscled | nts, petty confidence men; has lowered the | general -moral tone of more than one community; has been productive of no good. The pugilist is a | public burden, too lazy to work, too uncultured for professional life and lacking in courage to become | ak yman. When not in training for some event, co, he naturally | ich when it does come off is a fi iation with criminals nd outcasts. | | re should be an abatement of the professional st. Other nuis s far less obnoxious are | ated. Garbage goes to the crematory; thieves lo‘ 1. Why this exception in favor of the pugilist, who | is more of a menace to humanity than the inert offal e rogue who gets caught? Theoretically there may be some excuse for pri fighting. In reality there is not. It does not stimu- late decent people to healthful exercise, but it opens an easy way in which to make ighting, but o1 tt to a lot of pluguglies There are laws st prize a living gain they are so constructed that locally the Supervisors can override them; and thc Supervisors do. They have on more than one occasion been bought for a | to the ringside seat clo Upon the Legis! ing the statute that it c ire 1 rest the duty of so chang- 1ot be defied by lawless | promoters.” Every person ] affairs by his presence Every principal | Every | | Supervisors and other encouraging should be arrested and 1 one of these ill ily fined. should be sent to the jail or the chain gang. official conniving at it should be deprived of office. Prize-fighting, so at least as California is con- | cerned, must stop. It has been borne with too long. | It has brought odium enough upon the common- | wealth | A general discussion of the prize-fight in the ab- | stract is not here necessary. We even pass over body should care which of two other. It is enough to say now brutal and useless it would be if conducted honestly, has degenerated into a swindle | and an outrage. Let it be stopped. Any fistic contest | more than a friendly bout at an athletic club, no | admission being charged and no prize offered, should be regarded as an offense and rigidly punished. The duty of the Legislature on this subject is clear, but inquiry as to why ruffians can whip th that the sport.” when from time to time an effort may be made in these columns to illuminate the clarity. It is time for the Corbetts and Sharkeys to actually earn a living by some method of toil to which their limited intelli- gences adapt them. Yet they are not wholly to be blamed. The burden of guilt rests with those who have the power to stop the disgusting fakes and fail tc do so. QUICK WORK WELL DONE. HE work accomplished by The Call in reporting T 1e Baldwin Hotel fire merits notice as a strik- ng illustration of what a modern newspaper can accomplish directed by energetic men and equipped with up-to-date machinery. The first alarm was turned in at 3:10 a. m. The- Call obtained a report of the fire and published it in the Oakland edition, which was sent out at 4:25 a. m. Thus the news was gathered, written out, printed and published in seventy-five minutes. The Call was the only paper in the city that gave the news in its regular i Oakland edition. At 5:30 the city edition was issued with a full page account of the fire, and at 7:03 an edition containing a complete report up to the time the fire was extin- i guished was published. The record, it is to be noted, was made for quality and accuracy of the report as well as for speed. It is one of the many proofs The Call has given that it has the men and the machinery to meet and master every emergency that arises. The Anglicized Astor denounces as a lie the story that he made a wager concerning the size of the section of redwood procured from California. He has need to get exci Nobody ever believed it was anything else. UL Somehow the police reporter fails to state whether these fellows who attempt suicide on “account of de- spondency” feel any gayer after a stomach-pump has wooed them back to the discomfort of living. Uncle Sam, with Aguinaldo across his knee, a shingle in his hand and an expression of determina- tion on his face, would form a fitting picture illustra- tive of the situation in the Philippines. A wealthy man has been arrested for the theft of a can of lard worth 50 cents. He ought to be-ashamed. There are cans of lard worth a dollar. The Call will admit to being a little proud of the way in which its young men handled the story of the Baldwin fire. Jacob Neff is one of the men who must submit with {to pas limits should now be included within them. It would | be easy to point out structures now in process of erec- hich are dangerous in their liability to fire, and renace to the property around them; and many of these are in localities which if outside the fire limits It is not likely that these lessons of the fire will be overlooked. They were made too clear in the blaze of the burning hotel and too impressive by the loss of property and life. The only danger is that they may be neglected by the city officials and permitted | without profit. To avoid that danger, the work of inspection of new buildings should begin at once. There should be no delay. Now is the time to | see to it that the fire limits are made commensurate | with the danger area of the city and that all new ! structures within that area are fireproof. | OUR NATIONAL THANKSGIVING. firmly established, the American people will to- | day turn from the toils and cares of their lives and | with joyous minds celebrate the annual festival of Thanksgiving. The institution is peculiar to ourselves. No other | people have such a festival on their list of public holidays. In this land alone of all lands on earth | have all classes of people so large a share in the | profits of their labor and so fruitful a return for the | work of their hands that a yearly celebration of the common bounty and prosperity is felt as a necessity | of their lives. With each returning season the people find suf- ficient reasons for the celebration of the festival. We | have had droughts, industrial depressions, financial | panics, wars and many otker forms of hard times; but never yet has a year come without bringing to us between seedtime and harvest such a bountiful in- come of good that the hearts of all could rejoice with | a genuine sincerity when the time came for the Tranksgiving to be celebrated. ! So steadfast has been our prosperity and so con- tinuous our blessings that it has become a common- place on each recurrence of the festival to find in that particular year strong reasons why the celebration should be more exultant than at any previous time. This year will not be an exception to the rule. The swift triumphs of our arms in a war for humanity, | the many illustrations of the heroism of our citizen soldiery, the increased prestige which our republic enjoys among the powers of the earth, the revival of | industry and the proof given by the elections of the stability of popular sentiment—all these things can be cited as causes for special rejoicings, and in each case the citation will be just. Great as are the causes for these special rejoicings, however, it must not be overlooked that the pro- founder reasons for our Thanksgiving are to be found ir blessings which change not from year to year, but are permanent in their nature, or at least are so in- herent in our social organization that they will remain the heritage of the American people so long as the people have the virtue to sustain the fabric of a free government and a society in which the highest rank is accorded to intelligent industry, intellectual honesty and moral worth. In the upbuilding of the republic our fathers have accomplished more than the making of a great na- tion—they have made a great people. Among the characteristics of our manhood displayed during the | war magnanimity and generosity in the time of victory were not less notable than valor and strength in the hour of battle. So also in the battle of life among us the victors whose successes bring them millions fail not to show a generous helpfulness to those against whom the fortunes of battle have turned. Between all classes of our citizens there exists the bond of true humanity—a humanity which recognizes the right of all and does justice to each, granting every one (hat. which his merit deserves. While these republican virtues prevail among us we shall not be without cause for rejoicing at each returning Thanksgiving, whether there be peace or war, good times or bad accordance with a custom which has now become The more the recent bank failure in Emporia is looked into the more assured becomes the belief that the president’s head was level when he blew the top of it off. g After a while San Francisco will reach such a stage of development as to object to the building of great structures of lath and plaster. The Report intimates the wisdom of betting that a prize-fight will be a fake. But is it permissible to bet on a sure thing? The finger of suspicion pointed at Mr., Reddy of what patience they can to having honors thrust upon ther, | Oakland appears not to have been loaded | tinuous performance on local racetracks may be ad- | lected. So rotten has the system in vogue become | A DEGENERATE SPORT. O condemn racing as it is now carried on in this T city is not to condemn it when properly con- ducted. To maintain racing all the year :iound is simply to kill the sport so far as every legin.mnte feature of it is concerned. Racing, ideally, leads to the breeding of good horses, a healthful and pleasing exhilaration on the part of spectators who love horseflesh, and a fair re- turn to the breeder. But, like some other sports, racing has reached a low level. It has little left to commend it. Morally it is on a plane with the wheel of fortune or the shell game.. Once it was an aid to county fairs. Now it does much to ruin such events. Once there was a possibility of judging by the known merits of a horse his prospect of winning. That chance has gonme, so that racing, by inducing men to bet, becomes a swindling operation. One phase of the damage wrought by the con- verted to here. It has ruined men without number. It has sent “trusted” employes to San Quentin or to exile. Women have been caught by the fever of folly and brought sorrow to their families and disgrace to themselves. By frequenting the racetrack girls and boys have beclouded their own characters. His pas- sion for gambling, aroused by the constant oppor- tunity afforded by the races, placed Theodore Figel under the suspicion of murder and theit, and his old father suffered pain and financial reverse. Welburn sought the track, and somewhere in a foreign land, a | reward posted for his capture, Welburn is a fugitive. | Unable to flee, his cashier, ruined by the same means, | found such peace as the grave of a suicide affords. | Widber gambled on the races, and he will for seven years be a felon in stripes, his reputation gone, his future blasted. Such are a few sample specimens of the work that the racetracks have done for San Francisco. Yet, | as intimated in the beginning, there are methods and | limitations by which racing can be made a desirable attraction. To define these methods and fix these | limitations is one of the tasks which will fall to the | Legislature. It is a task too important to be lightly | considered and one which must by no means be neg- | QQQQQQGQ!&QDQQQ&QQQi:lflflCEi:(i:iQ.ClQQQ):U:l?:U:(i:(QfiQflfiflfiflflfiflflflflflfififififififlnfifi that it will in the end, unless corrected, mean the | | hitched to a dray than be used merely as a part of a plan for duping the public and leading the inexperi- | THE UNCHANGED STOMACH. F‘, REDERICK TREVOR, who has been an- nent London surgeon,” has recently declared | that the human stomach has undergone no c]mnge‘L ence can be traced. In the processes of development carried on by muscles and even the bones of men have undergone considerable transformation. The skull is larger, the | all changed. The stomach, however, stands im- mutable. It is in the daintiest darling of to-day even Mr. Trevor considers that this stomach, which has come down to us as a survival of the time when men ened needs, and is a fruitful source of ills, because it is abnormal to our civilization. He favors “the re- ex- perience has shown that such an operation would ensure greater comfort to everybody.” timely to the occasion of Thanksgiving; but he who reflects for a moment will perceive that it is most fort can we give to any American citizen as he sits down to dinner to-day than this assurance on high | the turkey and the pie is the same vast, capacious, devouring organ with which the cavernicolous giants absorbed the rich juices and massive fibers of the flesh of the megatherium and the plesiosaurus, and after a ichthyosaurus and have another feast? ‘Whether or not it may be better for us all to have future time is another question. For to-day it is sufficient to know they have not yet been reduced. In who were strong enough to subdue the earth and its beasts with their bare fists without the aid of imple- | abolition of the speed contest. The racer better be | enced into temptation nounced with a flourish of trumpets as an “emi- whatever since the earliest age to which man’s exist- evolution through long periods of time, the brain, the toes are shorter and arms and legs and lungs have | as it was in the troglodyte of the palaeolithic age. lived on raw mastodons, is too large for our enlight- moval of a considerable portion of it,” and says ““ To the unreflecting man this topic may seem un- pertinent and opportune. What greater joy and com- | authority that the stomach with which he confmms’ of the time of earth’s primitive vigor digested and dream of Eden awoke in the morning to slaughter an surgeons considerably reduce our stomachs at some the stomach we are yet equal to the primal demigods ments or weapons, and whose mighty appetites en- | abled them to eat anything from a pterodactyl to a | sea-serpent without the aid of cooks. | In this assurance let every American go to his feast | to-day. Let him eat his turkey with joy and drink his wine with a merry heart. And “may good diges- tion wait on appetite.” All honor to J. L. White. He died the death of a hero. With every opportunity to save himself, he chose to save others, and he fell a victim to his own generous bravery. There is no greater heroism. “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friend.” And yet there seems to be a greater love—the humane impulse to lay down life for'a stranger speaks of a bro~der and more un- selfish humanity. Mr. White perished at the fire. He went to death conscious that he had saved others, and those who witnessed his acts will remember him as a valiant and noble man. A woman in New York committed suicide because her husband objected to her riding a bicycle at night. The excuse appears insufficient. Still, her request that he take tender care of the pet dog, which she could not take with her, ought to be heeded, and in attending to the “purp” he may in a measure forget his woes. — For once the whole town can say, “I told you so.” The Baldwin had been for years known as a death trap, and its long exemption from destruction had been a wonder. L When people are freezin to death in Nebraska wonder arises that any should consent to stay in that blizzard-kissed country when California is so ac- cessible. —_— One reason the Kaiser will feel indignant at the re- buke from the Duke of Westminster is that there is positively no chance of sending anybody to jail for it. The war cannot be regarded as absolutely settled until somebody has explained why the crew of the Teresa deserted. The only regret as to the shooting at thieves at the Baldwin fire is that the bullets seem to have missed. Ak G Y ey A Los Angeles father has sued his son for libel. Spare the attorney’s fee and spoil the child. : CEsTe e Spain’s refusal to take cash is for temporary use only.” Oh | rior, 106 0606 100 0 06 06 08 10 K06 06 08 206 00 0% 18 400 08 20K 08 10010 J0¥ 104 0% ¢ 300 300 306 08 0 KU X A A KD HOUGH but 23 years of age, Lieutenant Thomas M. Anderson Jr., U. S. A., now a guest at the Occidental, has a military record of which any war-scarred veteran might well be proud. He entered the Fourth Cavalry in August, 1894, and, after successive promotions, received his commission as lieu- tenant in June, 1897. It was in the Thirteenth United States Infantry, however, that he won his laurels—leading the charge up San Juan hill—per- haps the most notable as well as fatal engagement of American troops on Cuban soil. Of the 420 men in his regiment that took the fleld, 109 were killed—a larger percentage of fleld loss than that suffered by any other regiment during the campaign. “The road we traversed,” he said, sterday, ‘‘was very nar- row, with high, dense and almost impenetrable underbrush on either side. The enemy, knowing that it was the only road we could take, had trained their guns upon it, and were doing terrible execution. Ahead of us were the Sixth and Sixteenth regulars, and the Sev- enty-first New York Volunteers— all comprised in the Second Bri- gade. The Seventy-first, com- posed of raw, undisciplined men and unable to respond to the tell- ing fire of an unseen enemy, was routed, badly beaten, and retreat- ed along this narrow road until stopped by our division com- mander, General Kent, who or- dered them to lie down on each side of the road. so as to permit the troops in the rear to advance. “This we did by walking over them, crossing the Bloody Bend at the San Juan River, and en- tering the open field in front of San Juan Hill, which was strongly fortified by the blockhouse and in- trenchments. It was there that we lost so many officers by Span- ish sharpshooters concealed in [eSccR=RoF-F=3-2-R-F=F-3=2-3-F=F=3-3t=F=2=2-2-F -3 333233 22 - F=1 2] MILITARY REGORD T0 BE PROUD OF . as “the first man to reach the top tall trees, only a few yards away. “Of the officers, two were killed outright and five wounded. The men behaved admirably, and the discipline of the troops was per- fect. They advanced with all the more determination as their comrades were killed off. This was a grand thing to see.” Lieutenant Anderson, who has the strongest testimonials to his bravery recalls, with very natural pride, his introduction to Alger’s chief of staff by Secretary Alger, of San Juan Hill"—an incident that occurred when he was suffer- ing from typhoid fever at Mon- tauk Point. Lieutenant Anderson is the son of Major General An- derson, now second in command ;:t"MB.nll?., and will leave for the atter point on the Copt: as his father's aid, 0o t© 8¢t =3 OYCJOROXOROXOJOROJOROJOROJOROROJ OJOROROJOROROROROXORORORO RO YO RO YO X0 [] s WORTHY CASE @ ® ® ® ©® ® ® < ® PARTICULARLY sad case of destitution is that of a family by the ® A name of Strong at 1623A Eddy street, in this city. P unfortunate accident followed by absolute want and misery. © fords an opportunity for the good offices of the charitably inclined, @ and in these days of thanksgiving a small portion ® cheer which is so widely were carried away. cember. Mrs. Strong, who fi: ity that has befallen her, s: ® [O] ® [O] [O] ® ® @ ® [O] @ O] [0} ® ® (O] ® ® @ ® @ ® take care of himself. ©OO tiently. [} JOXCROJOJOJOROJOJOOJOROJOROFOJOROJoJoJoJORoYoRoXoXoYoYoJoXo Yoo o) FOR CHARITY disseminated would be well placed in this family who have been so sadly afflicted. The case is all the more pitiful from the fact that there is a little babe of thirteen months, who, with the father and mother, has often wanted for the barest necessities of life. Last April A. L. Strong was almost killed by a premature discharge of a dynamite blast in a mine at Chinese Camp, in Tuolumne County. He escaped with his life, but at a terrible cost, for he suffered the loss of his evesight and hearing, the right eye being completely destroyed. His left arm had to be amputated at the elbow and two fingers of the right hand He sustalned other injuries, and is now utterly in- capacitated from earning a living for his little family. perform an operation next April on the left eye, but the most he can hope for is that his patient will be able to see about four feet away. The Strongs came to this city and have been living in two scantily furnighed rooms since the first of the month. month’s rent, amounting to $8, and it will be due again on the Ist of De- well-nigh distracted with the terrible calam- s that had it not been for some neighbors she does not know what would have become of them., is anxlous to get work by the day to help support her afflicted husband and Mrs. Gibeau has kindly consented to take care of the baby during her absence, as the father is utterly helpless and hardly knows how to It is a worthy case for charity, and in these prosperous times, when plenty seems to be the lot of many, a few grains of it will be gratefully received in the Strong family, who have suffered so much and so pa- It iIs a tale of an It af- of the good The doctor will A Mrs. Gibeau paid a the kindness of She CPOEERPPEIPINOPPPPNGHPNPEPNEHPNPEIVED PP PO OO WEBSTER DAVIS AND THE FIGHT It is pleasant to turn aside for a mo- ment from the boastfulness and jeal- ousy, the arrogance and self-esteem of certain public men, and contemplate the achievements of modest worth and unassuming merit. The Hon. Webster Davis, Assistant Secretary of the Inte- has just illustrated for our en- lightenment and reassurance the possi- bilities that are open to a man of real ability and worth who goes forth with- | out the meretricious aid of clamorous announcement. Mr. Davis has no clacque. He is en- veloped in no nimbus of manufactured notoriety, nor aided by any accessories of artificlal reputation. Yet Mr. Davis has just concluded a tour of the coun- try extending from Pennsylvania to the Pacific Coast, and the harvest of his oratory is Republican triumph all along the route. In Pennsylvania, Ohio, In- diana, Kansas, Nebraska, California and Washington he has strengthened the party by his eloquent and patriotic appeals. Quay owes him for much of his hard-won success against the most powerful opposition he has ever yet encountered. In Ohio Mr. Davis fought a valiant fight with burning words and sumptuous periods that carried conviction to every doubting heart. In Indiana he helped to perpetuate a Re- publican ascendancy, which, to say the least of it, is abnormal and depends | upon most extraordinary and unusual circumstances. In Kansas, where Mr. Davis was especially active, the Popu- lists have been driven out of power for the first time in many years, even Jerry Simpson, the pow-wow of Medicine Lodge, having gone down before the storm of popular enthusiasm. In Ne- braska Mr. Davis was a most conspic- uous agent of the political revolution which recovered t.¢ State to Republi- canism by a remarkable majority. In California Mr. Davis’ party has swept everything before it and in Washing- ton the tremendous majority which sent Hon. J. Hamiiton Lewis to Con- gress two years ago has been extin- guished and that picturesque and most attractive statesman has been retired | to private life. No doubt it will be said by persons of | a certain mental h:“‘¢ that these are mere coincidences. We shall neither deny nor argue that ungracious point. It is worthy of remark, however, that a still more noticeable coincidence is dis- cernible in the situation—the coinci- dence of Democratic gains in almost every State which Hon. Webster Davis did not visit, and among nearly all the communities which were deprived of the stimulus of his oratory. Enough to point out the facts and leave the coun- try to form its own conclusions. We shall not say in so meny words that Mr. Davis is the only political apostle in the land. We content ourselves with a simple statement of the fact that his itinerary has been converted into a trafl of Republican victory and leave to oth- ers the task of expl! ining it upon any hypothesis save that of his personal magnetism, his contagious fervor and his brilliant flow of language.—Wash- ineton Post. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Dr. M. D. Allen of Delano is at the Grand. Fred M. Kraus, a prominent St. Louis! merc.hflnt. is at the Palace. R. C. Miner, an extensive Stockton mer- | chant, s a guest at the Lick. A. L. Hadley, an extensive Fort Wayne (Ind.) merchant, is at the Palace. H. Cox, manager of the Stanford base- ball nine, is registered at the Palace. A. D. Cutts, a well-known general mer- chant of Marysville, is at the Grand. A. F. Jack, a prominent Paso Robles banker, is a late arrival at the Palace. F. W. Embry, a Rochester (N. Y.) capi- talist, has apartments at the California. Joseph Craig, proprietor of the High- land Springs Hotel, is stopping at the Grand. Dr. Kaestner, a prominent Leipsic phy- siclan, is among recent arrivals at the California. Deputy Controller W. W. Douglas is down from Sacramento, and registered at the Grand. Captain John E. Boyer of the First Wis- consin Infantry Volunteers is registered at the Occidental. J. W. Heard, a well-known Grass Val- ley mining man, is at the Grand, accom- panted by Mrs. Heard. C. M. Coglan, secretary of the State Board of Equalization, accompanied by his wife, is at the Lick. George Crocker and Julius Kruttschnitt of the Southern Pacific Company arrived from the north by special train vesterday morning. E. 8. Pilsbury, the well-known attorney, has gone to New York on business con- nected with his profession. He will re- turn about Christmas. E. T. Wallace, mining expert, and J. H ‘Wadsworth, banker, both of Yreka; John H. Carruthers, a Butte (Mont.) mining man; W. T. Kerney, a Toronto (Ont.) merchant, and W. A. Ward, in the mer- chandise line at Victoria, B. C. late arrivals at the Palace. Dr. Catherine V. C. Scott has just re- turned from the East, where she went three months ago to attend post-graduate lectures and to meet her brother, a medi- cal missionary, home on a vacation from Persia. She spent some time in New York City during the heated term, and re- turns ‘more than ever satisfied that San Francisco climate is the best this planet affords. ————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK San Francisco is at the- Windsor. H P Ramsdell of San Francisco is at the Hoff- man. —_———— Death of a Foolish Woman. Mrs. Annie Ambrose, wife of F. M. Am- brose, residing at 97 Roach street, died vesterday morning of pelvic peritonitis, the effect of a criminal operation per- formed by herself. The deceased was a n;sdl.lve of California, 24 years 11 month: ol C‘EE)JdflfiflCF'C(C‘QGUltf_i:‘db?fifibcflfififiQfiQOfififidUfiOQfiUflfifiGfiflflfiflflflfififlfifififififl ., are among ! tained Judge Barry. | WELLS-FARGD STILL EVADES REVENUE LAWS Test Case Filed by the Attorney General. A FINAL DECISION WANTED CASE WILL BE CARRIED TO THE HIGHEST COURT. Notwithstanding Several Adverse Decisions the Corporation Still Forces the Burden on the People. Whether the people or Wells, Fargo & Co. must bear the war revenue tax fm- | posed upon bilis of lading, receipts, mani- fests, etc., that pass through the offices of the corporation named will be decided | in the near future in a suit filed yesterday | by Attorney General W. F. Fitzgerald for | a preliminary writ of mandate, to compel | the company to bear its share of the Gov- | ernment’s burdens. An alternative writ of mandate was issued upon the filing of the complaint, directing the defendant corporation to make appearance before Judge Troutt on December 9 and show | cause why the writ should not be made | permanent. | W. H. Anderson, Assistant Attorney | General, made the affidavit upon which the proceedings are brought. He alleges that under the provisions of the act of Congress providing for the raising of rev- enue with which to carry on the late war it is the legal obligation of all express companies to pay the tax. He further avers that Wells, Fargo & Co. refuses to comply with this obligation, and for this | reason the writ is asked. Anderson, in building up his case, pre- sented at Wells,Fargo's local office a package on October 19 last for transpor- tation and the company refused to for- ward it unless a stamp was affixed by the owner. This treatment on the part of the corporation, the affiant avers, is accorded all who present packages for shipment. This amounts, he contends, to a violation of the franchise of the corporation and a breach of its duty to the public. It is further seeking, by unlawful and evasive acts, he avers, to escape bearing its share of the internal revenue tax and to force the burden upon the public. The petition is similar to the one pre- sented to the State Supreme Court, which that tribunal dismiss without prejudice, holding_that the case should be entered in the Superior Court. tant clause in yesteday's forth that: Affiant i3 informed and etc., that defendant threat nd’ will continue its afore fonate and coercive acts, nds to and will continue to force the peo- ple of this State to bear the burden of defen &nt's share of said internal revenue tax in mar and by the means rected and ord discontinue its A new and impor- petition sets £aid bills of ladin and other evi- dences of rec , and to affix thereto the 1 mps required by law at its own cost and without any cost what- ever to the shipper as provided by law. Attorney General Fitzgerald explains that the =uit is brought to make a test case arn cure a final ruling, which will necessitate carrying the matter before the United States Supreme Court. In a suit tried in the Justices’ Court Judge Barry ordered judgment entered against Wells, Fargo & Co. The case was carried to the Superior Court and Judge Troutt 1 Without doubt uch as Judge Troutt conve ith the points of law involved, he and down an opinion in the case shor Then the line of appeals will be run until ultimately the court of last resort is reached and an opinion handed down for- ever determining whether or not a corp ration has a right to _enjoy the privileg and protection afforded by the Govern- ment and then refuse to support it when it is in need of fi: cial support. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. JOAQUIN M'ILLER;Aj L. L., Chicago, Ill. The postoffice address of Joaquin Miller is Oakland, Alameda County, (‘gl. DIVORCE—P. J. 8., City. An individual coming to California from New York or any other State wishing to apply for a divorce must be a resident of the State one year before action for divorce can be instituted. RELIGIONS—Mrs. B., Oakland, Cal. The latest estimates on religions in the United States are those based on tne census of 1890. These give Roman Catho- lics, 2,277,039; Adventists, 5 Baptists, 422,991 German Evangelical, _ 160.000° Methodist, 4,95 .240: Presbyterian, 1,22 Lutherans, 1,086,048; Mennonites, 102,671; Jews, 250,000 INVITATIONS TO WEDDINGS—Miss B., Oakland, Cal. A writer on etiquette says on the subject of invitations -to weddings: “No answer is necessary. Persons ifving at a distance receiving an invitation inclose thelr card and send by mail. Those who cannot attend either send or leave their cards for the hostess within a few days after the wedding. After the bridal party returns home, If the bride has reception days, all who were invited to the wedding must call, and it is also imperative to call on her mother, who invited you.” —_——————— New baskets, just arrived. 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