The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 2, 1898, Page 6

FRIDAY A —t .DECEMBER’ 2, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propretos unications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. Market and Third Sts., S P Teleph Main 1868, EDITORIAL ROOMS.... ..2I7 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 @ w By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE... ievieeseseasssneses$08 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE Room IS8, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative, WASHINGTON ®. C.) OFFICE... -Rigge Houes C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE... «...Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. Address All Comm PUBLICATION OFFICE. One year, by mall. $1.50 BRANCH OFFICES—52T7 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 930 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open unti 9:30 o'clock. 65 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 229! Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street. open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, ope! wntil 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second eas Kentucky ts, open until 9 o'cleck, AMU MENTS ecret Service.' bl ayest Manhattan.” —*“The Politiclan.” “yrano de Bergerac.' #—"The Commodore." Comedy Theater—'"The Crust of Soclety.” Orpheum—Vaudeville, The Chutes—Gorrilla man, vaudeville and the zoo. Olympla—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, specialties. Baths anic's Pavilion—Charity Bazaar. Palace Hotel Maple Room—Doll Show this afternoon and evening Columbia — Press Club Entertalnment, noon, December & Glen Park—Mission Zoo, Sunday. Oakland Race Track—Races to-day. Ingleside Coursing Park—Coursing Saturday and Sunday. Rosenthal—Coming in December. vimming. AUCTION SALES, December 2, at 11 o'clock, Fur- This evening, December 2, Thorough- Howard street. Killip & Tuesday evening, December 6, at 7:30 Thoroughbred Yearlings, at corner Market street and ees avenue. . By K ROBBED BY THE METER. a'el Van M HAT the San Francisca Gas and, Electric Light | T »mpany is an overbearing, swinish and arro- | gant corporation, without regard for the: rights | of patrons, has been shown again and again. That | it charges outrageously for a bad illuminant, and | charges just the same whether the illuminant is used | or the household remain darkened during the: ab- | sence of the fi is well understood. That its rates | are exorbitant, its conduct arbitrary, its response to well-founded requests impertinent, goes without ‘say- | It numbers its victims by the thousands, and olds a fortune exacted from them with no warrant f law and no shadow of equity. But this company has surpassed its own: record for | le tricks, It has achieved the seemingly im- | From the acute meanness of its greed | 1as emanated an action such as would be be- | h the dignity of a footpad, and give -the miser | pause. It has applied its hold-up tactics to a char- itable organization, which is not only organized for a noble purpose, but amply able to pay its bills. In its accustomed fashion of suspecting every customer | of being a thief, it has insulted a number of ladies, | and upon their request that a meter be put in certain 3 premises responded that a $5 deposit would be neces-i sary. In vain was the case presented. An itching | palm was outstrétched for the coin, and the money | has gone to join the fund wrested from other dupes. The story is brief. Among the works of the Native | Daughters is that of maintaining a home for members | of the order. It is the design there to care for Native Daughters who' may arrive from interior points, to provide the sick with shelter, medicine and gentle ministration. For this purpose a good woman -had left 3 sum of money, and the order has been applying it.. A place was rented at 925 O’Farreil street. The’ furnishing of it is now in progress.- A stage " had been reached at which light became a necessity, and this company was asked to put a meter in. Refusal to do so was absolute. The ladies explained the situ- | ation, that they would be individually responsible, that ample money would in any event be forthcoming. Their words were wasted. They had, or thought they had, to deposit $5, and they did so. That is to say, a shrewd and conscienceless corporation robbed them | of this trifle just as it had robbed before and -will | again unless the Legislature lay a. hand = heavily apon it. The highwayman, pistol in hand, is no more’ an offender than this corporation. . It uses its power, its monopoly of the meter, for the purpose of larceny. It reaches into the pocket, abstracts a coin, and has 00 excuse save the bad one that the opportunity is afforded. The Legislature should check this peculiarly exas- perating form of crime. Citizens are entitled alike to protection from insult and from theft. Such:a de- mand as these ladies were forced to accede to ought 1o be rated as a felony, for morally it is nothing less. The time is here for the gas people to understand that they have no privilege of peculation. 'By the right to shut off the gas supply they are amply guarded. They ing. tannot ask more. Other dealers in public utilities | 1sk no more. Let the demand of the gas company ‘or a deposit be legally rated as a felony. Nothing short of this will give its swollen and defiant officials \ proper conception of their place in the general sconomy. FOR OUR MANILA SOLDIERS. N his latest letter from Manila, published last Sun- l day, Corporal Healy appealed to the good people of San Francisco for reading matter. ' The boys n the PXZlopines yearn for” magazines and books. n every household there are apt to be many of these, 2ad and cast'aside. Let them he sent to the soldiers. All the literature brought to' The Call business office vill be boxed and forwarded to the troops free of ost to the donor. There could be.no better ‘way. in vhich to stiow the California boys that in the trapics ar away they are not forgatten of the pedple ‘who vatched them ‘go and bade them ‘farewell with tears' :nd cheers. All ‘cantributions will be forwarded to Torporal Healy, who will see that they shall be. dis-. ributed in the most effective way, and not a scrap’ 1ill be lost. . : e The good ladies of Healdsburg will receive - the hanks of the soldiers for the thoughtfulness of their uggestion, the import of which is set forth in an- ither column of this issue: e Aguinaldo demands ransom for certain’ of the Thursday After- | | ticles in the American press illuminates the enormity THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1595. - 3 THE MONROE DOCTRINE.- DEAD. | 'HE purchase of the Philippines, if that folly be Tratificd by the :Senate, will be the final, formal and official abandonment of the Monroe doc- trine by the United States. It is the consummation of an act of aggression against a European state, concluded outside of our:own hemisphere. Having broken out of our own hemisphere, we can no longer | oppose the breaking into it by any power that has the strength. The tone of the Continental press is unmistakable. Those nations have the experience that equips them for judgment, and when their press declares that our past republican policy is obsolete and that we have entered into the conflicts of the world as an imperial military power, they speak:the truth. Mr. Henry Adams in his history of the - United States says: “Jefferson aspired beyond the ambition of a na- | tionality and embraced in his view the whole future | of man. That the United States should become a na- | tion like France, England or Russia; should conguer | the world like Rome or develop a typical race like } China, was no part of his scheme. He wished to be- | gin a new era. Hoping for a time when the warld's | ruling interests should cease to be local and should | become universal; when questions of boundary and | of nationality should become insignificant; when | armies and navies should be reduced to the work of police and politics should consist only in non-inter- vention, he set himself to the task of governing with this Golden Age in view. Few men have dared to legislate as though eternal peace were at hand, in a world torn by wars and convulsions and drowned in blood, but this is what Jefferson aspired to do. Even in such dangers he believed that Ame-icans might safely set an example which the Christian world should be led by interest to respect, and at length to imitate. As he conceived a true American policy, war was a blunder, an unnecessary risk; and even in case of robbery and aggression the United States, he believed, had only to stand on the dcfensive in or- der to obtain justice in the end. He would not con- sent to build up a new nationality merely to create more navies and armies, to perpetuate the crimes and follies of Europe; the central government at Wash- ington should not, in his view, be permitted to in- | dulge in the miserable ambitions that had made the | Old World a hell and frustrated the hopes of hu- | manity.” It must be admitted that the spirit of this Jeffer- sonian view largely controlled our national policy. It was violated by the Ostend manifesto, which was plain affirmation of the brutal doctrine that might makes right. But that manifesto was not influential in controlling our policy. Now, however, a change has come. American sentiment makes no conceal- ment of our purpose to take Cuba, against the pro- tests of its people and: without giving them adequate opportunity to prove a self-governing ca- pacity. The lines are written in the treaty of Paris by which we take the Philippines, also- against the wish and in the face of the protest of nine-tenths of their people. We have taken Hawaii, while 95 per cent of the people mourned in their darkened homes. A reference to the speeches in the Senate and ar- + of this policy. The country was told in the Senate that Cuba had already a government, with a fiscal establishment deriving revenue by taxation; that it had an executive, legislative and judicial government, co-ordinate and in the exercise of all its functions; that it had an organized public school system in operation, using textbooks prirted by the govern- | ment, and, in fine, that the Cuban government was equipped with and operating all the machinery of civilized authority for the protection of personal and property rights. This statement of its condition was one of the moving factors in bringing on our declara- tion of war against Spain, in which we solemnly-ab- jured territorial aggrandizement and repudiated: all irtention of conquest. Therefore, up to the adoption of the war declaration by Congress, we_still stood in the traditional posi- tion of the republic. With victory, all this-was changed. Our solemnly declared purpose was abandoned and we were seized with the lust of conquest and a craze for the arbitrary use of power. ‘What has become of the organized government of Cuba, which we were told was in’ operation one year ago? Has it gone glimmering to the imbo of -lies along with our high-minded pledge against conquest and aggrandizement? With ordinary revenues still short of ordinary ex- penditures, we propose a standing army of 100,000 men and the immediate building of fifty ‘battleships. Suddenly the ‘only objects of national interest ap- pear to be a great army and'a massive navy to gar- rison and guard distant possessions, the ‘ownership of which was not desired a year ago, and is not de- sirable niow. Instead of setting an example which will lift from the people of the world the burden.and sore oppression of militarism, we are forcing the in- crease of that incubstis throughout the globe. We are throwing moral power to the winds and going back to (the principles that governed the early empires, that there is only one element in the successful gov- ernment of man, and that is material, physical force. To what quarter can the people turn for light and leading in this time of national lust and passion?: The American- Commissioners have exceeded the wish and transcended the expectations of. the people. They have affirmed a policy that will drain us of a billion. dollars’ within five years. It may be admitted that in'the flush of military suc- cess the people have seemed to approve some such course, ‘but no thoughtful man believes: that it ‘will have the indorsement of their sober second thought. U print, Peter McGlade is a fugitive, hiding from those whose trust he ‘has betrayed. : It seems | that he had stolen, and that flight was the only method by ‘which he could hope to escape facing opén disgrace and taking the consequences: : MeGlade was in ‘receipt of an ample salary had he confined his expenditures to proper channels. - They were not so‘corifined, however, for, like the rest of the long list of:embezzlers, defaulters and. official thieves, ‘McGlade pliyed the races. The dazzling, if remote, ANOTHER OBJECT LESSON. - NLESS “captured by the time this appears .in Fit to strengthen.their respective machines. Why does ‘ troubles: or of shame. Figel was ruined by the races. - He ap- | peared in court under the imputation of dishonesty and of ‘murder. Welburn was -ruined by the races. He is an exile. Isaac Norton was ruined by the races. He is in a suicide’s grave. Harry Piper-was ruined by the races; so was Widber, so ‘was McGlade, 5o have been a countless number more. : Because. of these facts racing should be ‘subjéct to a time limit. As a diversién it does no harm. .As a business at which men and boys and women wager, for a vain hope, all they have, ‘it is pernicious and blighting. A’ duty of the Legislature will be to ‘place. restrictions upon it. ; REAPING THE WHIRLWIND: HERE is an adage about sowing the wind and Treaping the whitlwind. President Valentine of the Wells-Fargo Express will appreciate it; be- cause ‘he not only has a leaning toward quotation, but the whirlwind harvest is his to reap. The inexcusable dishonesty of the express com- panies in refusing to pay their share of the war tax has been vigorously denounced by everybody not in the business of carrying goods. That there was any merit in the contention of the companies was not be- lieved even by themselves. ‘They mergly thought to beat back the inevitable verdict until such time as the tax had become a thing of the past. The courts have been slow, but justice is moying. There will be introduced: in- Congress more. than one bill for the establishment of a parcels post. The plan: is feasible. It has been tried elsewhere with success. So strong is the demand for it that in all probability it will be indorsed and put into opera- tion. Then the petty exactions of the express com- panies’ will be of no-consequence. A parcels post would be popular, and there is no doubt would in time be of profit to the department. In any event it would relieve the people from domination ‘by a series of monopolies and teach the corporations a les- son in manners and in business ethics. They have uniformly charged all the traffic would bear. When they added the price of the stamp, for which they should have paid themselves, they added a trifle more than the traffic would bear, and to be deprived of the traffic would serve them rightly. THE PRIMARY LAW QUESTION. HE joint non-political committee appointed by Tthe different organizations of this city with in- structions to frame a general primary election law for submission to the coming Legislature ap- pears to be as far away from an agreement as the party leaders were who appointed it. According to published accounts of its deliberations, the commit- tee will present majority and minority recommenda- tions, and in this way tangle up matters effectually. Senator Stratton, the primary law prophet who framed the measure declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, declares that he is going to try his hand again, regardless of the work of the committee. Thus we shall have, not one measure indorsed by all the political parties and embodying one general plan, but several embodying the ideas of a number of poli: ticians who think they understand exactly how poli- tics can be reformed so as to make it certain that they will get the offices. This subjéct is one that merits more attentian than it is getting. The committee ought to hold meetings and discuss it. The public may very properly be taken into its confidence, since a general primary elec- tion law affects all parties, all governments and the aspirations of the statesmen of all parties. If there is a disagreement among the members of the committee the details should be given to the press in order that the bugs that are gnawing at the vitals of the several committeemen may be put under:theé microscope and subjected to the electric. light of public intelligence. ‘What the people want to know particularly is how the primary law manufacturers are going to get over act case. It will be remembered that that tribunal discovered the test for voting in this State to :have been incorporated in the constitution, which docu- ment was overlooked by Senator Stratton when he wrote his act. Under the constitution any man may vote at all elections who is 21 years of age, a citizen of the United States, a resident of his precinct thirty days, his county three months, ‘and the State = one year. The court said the Legislature could neither add to nor take from these qualifications, and that, consequently; it could not prevent Democrats voting at' Republican primaries, or vice versa, by prescribing different qualifications. How is this difficulty to be remedied without a constitutional amendment? That is what the public wants to know. Our own opinion is that a general primary law such as this committee s in its head is a humbug. Even if it could be made to.:work it would tend to destray independent voting by strengthening the convention powers of the political bosses. What .ought to be done in this State is to let the election laws alone for awhile. It is our cus- tom as soon as we adopt a “reform” statute to im- mediately. begin an agitation to repeal it. - This is exactly what happened fo the Story counting system. That system ' completely.- baffled the ballot-box stuffers, and they let it: alone for just one election. The “reform” Australian system displaced it, notwith- standing “it, was’ perfection itself in producing an horiest courdt of the votes. i In New York a general primary law has proved.a qualified -success. There Platt and Croker are using not the committee study results in the Empire State and give its reasoning powers sway? . A general. pri- mary’ law is not necessarily a good thing because it is advocated by the late band of knocked out “re- form. Democrats,” the authors of all our political e e 5 There will . be general - approval of the sentence of Private Meadors to ten years in a . military prison. - Meadors was guilty of a cold-bloaded muir- der, as was known before the civil trial and amply demonstrated on that occasion, yet some eccentricity of the jury box permitted him to go free. Of course the army authorities could not again try him for mur- der; but they established that assassination practiced in camp is prejudicial to good order. . Baldwin's celebrated liick seems to Hmve taken the ferm of an ability to defy municipal authorities -and possibility - of winning a large sum was : to" him a temptation too great. He risked money and reputa-| tion, position and friendship, and he lost ail." It is the ordinary course. : e The list is growing to-a fearful length. Hundreds of yourig men in this city are treading on darigerous ground. Sooner or later many of them will, like :Mc- Glade, reach the point at which their habit of playing the races can be no longer cancealed.. The City Hall is full of clerks who are habitual -players. They handle money which does not belang to them. Their salaries are not-sufficient ta support both themselves and the bookmakers. - S R e e Aside from the hundreds who by their passion for risoners he is holding. The presence of American rocps may be found embarrassing. He wants gold, wut he due_rvea to get lead. o racing have suiik into debt and discredit, it may be worth while to recount a few of the typical cases Lihich became notorious through a :zlunn of tragedy public- sentiment. He-announces that the walls of the tomb .occupying - his. property will come -down when he gets ready, and that he will let them stand as high as the second story, anyhow. . Have the Fire. ‘Wardens'rio influence? : ¢ i "I'l'g' Examinér cannot get over its struggle to pun- isk Shafter for .having' bundled a lot of the yellow |- journal's paraphernalia-out of Cuba. This load of truck happened to include ‘several special commis- siorers, who are still sore. ~ B e - It is a shameful thing that the B with its Wallers and its Ragans, should be permitted to waste public money.and visit upon the teachers the inevitable result of .wanton extravagance in the perpetration of which the teachers had .no part. . i and ]| the decision of the Supreme Court in the Stratton | oard of Education, |- A CARTOON THAT CAUSED TROUBLE. During the early part of last month a Paris dispatch:stated that the entiré edition of Le Petit Journal of November 6 had been seized at the instance of Count Munster, the German Embassador, because it containad an offensive cari- cature of the Emperor William. As an evidence that all of the enormous: edition of the French journal was not de- stroyed The Call reproduces the caricature from a copy ijust received ih this city. peror D’Allemagne en Voyage'—the Emperor of Germany on his travels. The picture is entitled “L'Em- Californian: HEALDSBURG, Nov. 28, 1888.—To teresting letter of Corporal Healy in this. ‘We have a lox of books which we Almshouse. cerely, i Now Jet the people show that boys who sailed away months ago ook R RE R R R R AR R R kKR Rk ok ko kR R AR KR KRR R KK KK Reading'Matter to Be -Sent to the California Troops in:the Philippines. The following letter needs no explanation.. that, acting on the kindly suggestion it contains,.the business office of The Call will receive and gladly forward any papers, magazines which may be donated t6 a cduse go appealing. ‘We have over forty magazines, comprising - the - Century, Munsey's and 6thers, in good condition, which we ‘will gladly donate for the use of the:soldiers in Manila. There are, doubtléss;‘'many- families who will be equally well pleased to send the magazines which have accumulat~ ed in their homes, from year to year, if The persons will take this matter in hand. . Farm. We would prefer sending them to.the soldigrs, to. whom they would glve more: enjoyment than they would te the class usually found in the Ifi The Call will interest itself in this matter s with a ready response from all oveér the Staté of Califérnia.. Yours sin- EH KR RE XX EFFEEERERLFRFRERRF R R E AT E R R ERR LR KR E XX RRERL T E X ERERERRERRRS THEY THINK OF OUR BOYS 1t .may only be said books . or to every the Edifer of the Call.—Sir: The in- Sunday’s Call prompts me to write Scribner’s, * . Call’ or some: other reliable proposed _sending. " to: the County am sure it will' meet MRES: L. M. PRICE. ***s@_****v*v*‘_**‘*fi**-*"******‘*Qh**z:-********#*% * % they have not forgotten the brave to take the chance of war. HE CORRIDORS. L. B. Howe of Rochester is at the Pal- ace. . . W: F. Patrick of Denver is at the Pal- ace. . A.-'W. Dow of Los Angeles is at the Lick. - ° 5 : G. 8. Rice of New York is a guest at the Palace. W. G. Drown of Washington, D. C., is at the Lick. : * Dr. E. L. Cross of Stockton is a guest at the Grand. H. W. Aldis. at-the Palace..: : 2 R. Rummelburg, a merchant of Winters, is at the Grand. C. 8, Colton of Mare Island is a guest at the California. Major W. 8. A. Matthews of Des Moines AROUND T New York is registered {8 at the Qceldental.. < . > Banker T. J, Field of Monterey Is regis- tered at the Palace. . ¢ . W. Swanson of GalesBurg, 1N, 15 a guest at the California. Purser W. A. Allén of the steamer San. Blas {8 at the Occidental, B Dr. J. 0 are registered at' the Lick. - B. C: Stickle, a newspal York, 1s at the Occidental. A. L, Gamble, of the revenue steamer Rush, 1s at the:Californfa. man of New | Union . 'D. Young and wife of Stockton:|: George W. Crimmin, & prominent flour: man of Tacoma, 18 at the Lick. _:J. H:-Sayer, a prominent vineyardist of Fresno, is registered at the Lick. Mr. and Mrs. Drysdale, from Burlin- game, are registered at the Palace. g Professor O. P.’ Jenkins of Stanford University 18 a guest at the Palace. * H. B..Shackelford of Red Bluff, & prom- inent -civil engineer, is at the Grand. Captain J. W. Robertson of the steamer: San Jose is a guest:at the Occidental. ‘Willlatn _A. Davies; a prominent miner of Yowa Hill, is registered at the Grand.| . Mma.. Camlilla Urso, the distinguished violinist, who appears next week at the ‘Orpheum, arrived on-the Overland last night, and s at the Ogcidental. She is accompanied by. Rudolph von $carpa; the pianist. : : : Professor James E. Keeler, astronomer Lick Observatory; is-‘staying at the Paj- ace. : i N Churlés Erickson, a prominent raflroad contractor of Magrtinesz, is,a.guest at the Grand. e : Bishop W. S, Nichols and family ofSan Miteo have.taken up their residence.in the city at the Occidental. : R. R. Ritchie; general agent of the Chi- cago and Northwestern' Railway, arrived in the ‘city yesterday from a trip Bast. J..G.: Scott and family of Agnews are guests. at the ‘Occldental. Mr. Scott ‘is the proprietar of the Lick Paner Mills. John J: Byrne, general passenger agent of the Santa Fe Rallway, whose head- quarters are.in- Los Angeles, was in. the city yesterday. A “Géneral A.-E: Grogan; who has just re- ;‘ex::e;i tr;)miv_alpa-mlm. where “he’has ' 10- attend :to his large mining inter-- ests, is at the Californis, i Sl “W. ‘H.: Dayenport, formerly of T.os geles, ‘has -assumed charge as gen agent of tha freight department: of ‘Pacific in ‘this: city. that :there Would. bé: no - bresent staff of- the officy An- 1 - Hé anngunced ‘at’ the Lick. ‘time ago destroyed by fire, and Mr: Snell Teports that' flie ‘new hotel is- rapid ing pushed to.completion, 3 3 NIANS CALIFORNIAN -— E. C. Sherman of he Astor. - Brestes the Manhattan. T is at tl Pierce ‘of Oakland is -at ‘WASHINGTON, ‘Déc. L—I. C. Fisher of 8an Francisi s at the Shoreham. - Wil- liam Schioss San Francisco is at the Ebbitt. M. J. Durand of Los Angeles is at the National. Chaplain John D, Par- ker, U. 8. A., retired, of San Diego, Cal., and Mrs. Parker are in Washington for the winter, and have taken apartments at 1330 Massachusettts avenue. Mr, and Mrs. John M. Biddle (formerly Miss Ethel e | IN NEW YORK. | Murphy) arrived here vesterday from San Francisco, and have taken apartments at the Bancroft.. Mr. Biddle is a clerk at the State Department, and has had charge of the department exhibit at the Omaha Ex- position. — e WILL THEY BE INTERVIEWED?P Ta - the Editor of The Call: I do not 8ee the Southern Pacific Company repre- sented in your published opinion of promi- nent-men on the results of general truth telling for twenty-four hours. I think the | company was slighted. And now I pro- | poss that you ask the opinlons of its rep- |'Tésentatives as to what would be the | proliable result on the community if ALL | its pficlals would tell the whole truth for ‘only twenty-four hours. I want to know. Very' truly yours, C. A. BARRETT. Conicord, Cal., November 30, 1868. ——— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, FITZSIMMONS' < AGE—N. ' N., City. Robert * Fitzsimmons, the prize-fighter, was: born on the 4th of June, 1862, THE CITY HALL SITE—Subscriber, City." The site of the City Hall in San Francisco, ‘was, in February, 1850, set apart by the Hoard of Aldermen, as & eity burying ground. THE FIRST VOLUNTEER—J. A. B, City. "This department cannot furnish the nams of ‘the first man who volunteered his: services to tite United States in the war with Spain, nor is there any record of the first man in California who volun- teered his services in that war. THE WAR TAX—A. D.,, Napa, Cal The San: Francisco Call has within the ast week arnotinced that the Attorney eneral has taken steps to compel Wells, Fargo & Co..to pay the war tax. Some time’ ago-Justice of the Peace Barry de- cided . that the company must pay the tax, but the company, not satisfied with the ‘decision,” has taken am appeal. In séveral of the States in the East whers companies have acted as Wells, Fargo & Co., ‘have, the decision has been that the company ‘must pay the tax. A NOTE—J.‘R.; Grizzly Bluff, Cal. Gen- erally. when a:man gives his note for one year he fs liable for the amount of inter- est the note would draw during that pe- riod. ' He may, however, take it up at any time within ‘the year, providing he ten- dered “the amount of interest that would accrue from ‘the time'the note is taken up until the end of the year. Oftén the hold- er: of the nots waives the interest. As to the particular case named in your letter of inquiry,: this dqpartment is not in a position to éxpress an opinion, not being conversant with the facts as presented by bath .sides. CALIFORNIA'S GOVERNORS — New Subscriber, San Jose, Cal. Of the Gover- nors : elected-in. California the following named were at the time of election rese- dents: of: San: Francisco:- P. H. Burnett, M. 8. Latham, F. F. Low, H. H. Haight, George. C. Perkins, George Stoneman an Washington Bartlett. The following were from Sacramento County: John Bigler, +f.. Neely: Johnson, John B.Welller, Leland %tam&um Newton Booth, Willlam Irwin. . H. Markham was from LoS Angeles County and J. H. Budd from San Joaquin County. - The Governor-elect is from Los | Angeles Tounty. e Teok ouit £or 81 Fourth; best eyeglasses, specs; 15¢ to dlc; note 81, next grocery. * —e—— Cal; glace frii.."50¢ per 1b at Townsend's.® Sy i Rt s ‘Special” information supplied dally to business: houses ‘and public men by the ‘Preis Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont. goméry. streét.” Telephone Mafn 1042, ¢ “Speaking of -taking a little flier in wheat,” remarked the farmer, as his fin- erg closed on a cinchbug, “how’'s that?* ‘hicago Tribune. 2 —_———— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” ‘Has been used -over fifty years by millions of mothers for thelr children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the guims. allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, reg- ulateés the Bowels and is the best remedy for oeas, whether arising. from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be stre and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 2%c a bottle. —_—— HOTEL DEL CORONADO—Teke advantage of the round-trip tickets. Now only $60 by steamship, including fitteen days’ board at hotel; longer stay 3250 per day. Apply at 4 New Montgomery street, San F: