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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1898 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE .Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2IT to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (BAILY AND SUNDAY) Is | served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns | for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year: per montb | 65 cents. | THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE. ne year, by matl, $1.50 | 908 Broadway | NEW YORK OFFICE. ..Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE... .Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE... ...Marquette Bullding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—52T7 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until | o'clock. 621 McAlllster street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2991 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS Columbia—''A Parlor Match.” California—"'O'Brien, the Contractor.” “Humbug." Yellow Dwart.” Incle Tom's Cabin. es—Gorilla Man, Vaudeville and the Zoo. Olympia — Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Speciaities, Ingleside Race Track—Races To-day. Glen Parl isston Z0o, Sunday. Metropolitan Hall—Rosenthal Piano Recital, Tuesday even- | ing, Janua | HAS MR. PHELAN BEEN HEFTING| AaGaiN? i "~ ERTAIN shrewd lawyers have made to the (-/ officers of the various counties of California a proposition to collect from the State a sum due as a commission on the collection of State taxes. It is a considerable sum; enough in the aggregate to | embarrass the State treasury. The lawyers are not; working for love, nor with a view to the promotion of health. In fact, they are trying to dispose of a gold brick. They ask a percentage, reaching up to a certain sum, to half the amount collected, and be- yond this they are willing to accept less. This is good of them. Even if moderately successful, each lawyer in the lot can retire with a fortune. } It is strange that the authorities cannot see through ‘ a scheme so transparent. It is more than strange | that public business cannot be conducted at least as | adroitly as the individuals guiding it would look after their own affairs. Imagine Mayor Phelan, for in- | stance, permitting a lawyer to direct his private con- | cerns and paying him a handsome commission for | taking money from one pocket and putting it in another. California is not prepared to meet the claims | threatened to be brought against it. The only way | in which they could be met would be through thcf levying of taxes. Any county recovering from the | State would simply have to reimburse the common- | wealth, and do it with the knowledge that commis- | sions aggregating, as nearly as can be estimated, $700,000, will pass into the pockets of attorneys, whose | only object in instigating the suits is to get this com- fortable reward. The inevitable result will be that | the counties will be obliged to make good to the | State not only the thousands recovered, but the other | thousands consumed in fees. Thus there will be no | gain, but a distinct loss. The Mayor of San Francisco is aiding and | abetting the lawyers. He did not devote to the; proposition the consideration its importance merited. | He merely heited the chances, and fell into error. This county is more deeply concerned than any other. It has more money at stake. Here the law- yers would make their richest haul, and the nccessity‘. of an extra tax would be more heavily felt than in | other quarter. Nevertheless the Mayor seems to think that in winning a suit against the State there | would be a triumph. - How does he figure it out? D of the passion of corporations for tearing up pavement. The sight of a good, smooth sur- face produces a peculiar effect upon those who have TEARING UP PAVEMENTS. the privilege of digging ditches in the thoroughfares. | While a street is covered with cobbles, or presents a | tep of virgin earth, it does not constitute a tempta- tion. Let it be graded, given a coat of bituminous rock, and immediately an army with axes and picks appears to assault it. It is chopped, stabbed, turned bottom up, wheeled to one side, where it forms a pile of debris; it is sundered lengthwise, crosswise, carved in angles, curves, unclassified rents. Then the debris is, with more or less pretense of care, placed back, leaving a scar which is never effaced, while the army, shouldering its weapons, marches away to new conquests. In time this sort of thing becomes irri- tating. Neither is the work done completely at one swoop. Perchance there is some perfect surface left, and this is reserved for a second assault. The corporations do not wish to appear too eager in demolition. They ac- complish their object by stages. Their plan is simi- lar to that of the humane man who, having to ampu- tate the tail of a dog, essayed to avoid cruelty by cutting off a piece every day. It is certainly strange that the impulse to lay pipes comes only after there is a pavement to be marred and probably to be ruined by the operation. The work could surely be better done after the paving had been ordered, done with less expense to the corporations and less cost and annoyance to the taxpayers, who really do not buy pavements for the mere sake of having them destroyed. The Grand Jury has made bold to suggest that the nickel-in-the-slot machine is not a promoter of virtue. And yet people in their blindness have sometimes wondered what the Grand Jury is for. I would seem that the books of the Standard Oil people just happened to be burned at the time there was occasion to refer to them. Accidents will occur. Spain’s soldiers might as well have died fighting. They will die, anyhow, before reaching their native shores, and no glory. . The very least to be required of the Fuhrig woman is that she acquire a degree of skill making her less fatal. —iein LAINT has occasionally been made heretofore b THE CONSTITUTION OUTGROWN. from the annexation of Hawaii to the conquest | of the Philippines, a feeble attempt has been | made to defend that policy on constitutional grounds. | No argument of that kind so far made has appealed | to constitutional lawyers. The late Judge Cooley ex- pressly denied constitutional warrant for colonial ac- quisition. Ex-Senator Edmunds and Senator Hoar take the same Indeed, the constitutional ar- | gument is so obviously against taking and holding these tropical conquests that its advocates are aban- doning that view entirely. In a speech this week at the banquet of the New England Society General Merritt said: “We have cutgrown the constitution. It is not worth while to discuss it.” That is a very short statement of a very great matter. It should be soundly pondered by the American people. It is the declaration of a soldier that our Federal constitution is obsolete and beneath the courtesy of discussion! A year ago no majo general of the United States army, no soldier in uni- form, would have dared make such a declaration. It | THROL‘GHOUT the discussion of expansion, | | is an expression of military contempt for civil gov- ernment. It shows that the same spirit is in most military men that was in Alaric the Goth, Attila the | Hun, and many leaders of armies from the beginning. That spirit has been roused by the appointment of | Military Governors for these tropical islands, who are |to rule by the force of a great army backing them. ! Our Government was organized so as to subordinate the military to the civil power. There can be no war | without a declaration by the civil authority, vested in Congr The constitution provides that Congress shall raise and support armies, but shall make no ap- propriation for that purpose longer than a term of two years, and that Congress shall have the power to provide a navy and make rules and regulations for the government of the land and naval forces. Such au- | thority in the civil government has always chafed | military commanders, and they have seldom failed to overthrow it when a state of war gave them the op- | portunity. The advocates of imperialism in Congress have al- ready addressed the country fervidly upon the exten- sion of our institutions and the blessings of our form of government to the tropical races. be forgotten that those institutions and blessings have their origin in the constitution, and nowhere else. Withdraw that, and they fall with it. They can no longer exist at home, nor be extended abroad. Obso- lete the constitution, and every judicial court ceases to be. Every judicial safeguard of person and prop- erty falls to the ground. All the civil rights enjoyed by our people cease when their source, the constitu- tion, ceases to be. Under these circumstances this soldier comes home after three weeks in Manila to inform us that we have outgrown the constitution, which no longer merits discussion! This can only mean that the country has grown out of its organic and fundamental law, and that it has cast off its form of civil government like a worn-out garment. But this major-general does not suggest that in outgrowing the constitution we have grown into another form of civil government. Our 1d constitution having ceased to deserve respect or discussion, the titular military Governor General of the Philippines, the successor of Weyler in those islands, who informs us of the fact, does not suggest that we have clothed us in the more abundant gar- ments of another form of civil government. A sol- dier’s sword follows and cuts where his word has gone before. Having uttered the word of disrespect and contempt for our civil government, he does not compromise his military position and view by indi- cating that any other form of civil power is installed in its place. Granting his judgment good as to the failure and outgrowth of the fundamental law, noth- ing is leit but military government by the army, or civil and social chaos. At the close of our Revolution there was a great commander at the head of the Continental army. It was plastic in his hands, and the country was ready te accept what he dictated. There was no constitution to limit him, no av hority equal to the task of curb- ing his army or subordinating it to the civil power. A Continental Congress had made him the head of the army without limit to his commission. But that com- mander had a conscience and a patriotic spirit, which | supplied the limitations that were externally lacking. Meeting the Continental Congress in session in the old Courthouse at Annapolis, a body feeble in power and authority, that would have dispersed at a wave of his sword, Washington handed that sword back and resigned the commission which gave him the right to bear it. When Mifflin, the President of that Congress, re- ceived Washington's sword and commission, the civil ;powcr advanced to primacy of the military power, the | foundation of the constitution was laid, and the in- stitutions of freedom were planted thereon. In less than six score years from that scene we are told by a professional soldier that we have no civil government and freedom no foundation! THE GRAND JURY FAILURE THE adjournment of the Grand Jury without ac- tion upon the School Board scandals is merely a repetition of the history of this county inquisi- tion during many years past. The failure of justice again emphasizes anew what has often been said, that the Grand Jury system is a complete failure. In the days of its usefulness it is said to have served as a | barrier between tyranny and the people, but as a | modern means of prosecuting crime, investigating public officials and bringing the guilty ones to justice, it has fallen into the contempt of all thoughtful people. The members of the present Grand Jury say they | have been unable to obtain any conclusive evidence of crookedness in the Board of Education. Yet it would seem to the casual observer that if they had merely followed up the publications in the newspapers they | could not have failed to indict several of the ring. Grand Juries need not set themselves up as sticklers for legal evidence. When they know that crime has been committed they can exclude the usually luke- warm District Attorney from their presence and find indictments to fit the case. It is a fact, however, that grand juries are ordinar- ily made up of politicians, and business men on the verge of politics, who respond promptly to the “pull” of the tax-eating classes. A few virtuous members upon a Grand Jury cannot sway the majority, who are interested personally in shielding criminals and preventing scandal. When the District Attorney is indifferent or neglectful his office becomes an instru- ment for preventing the indictment of political crim- inals, and so the whole machinery of the law is thrown into confusion, and the Grand Jury adjourns, as this one has adjourned, acknowledging itself help- less and impotent. We do not know whether there is any remedy for this or not. If the Superior Judges were to name for a while grand jurors who were outside the politica influence of the City Hall, and would place upon Hobson is deserving of every honor short of kisses & every Grand Jury two ar three lawyers of courage and integrity, they would soon find that results would 1 But it must not | ) | long been oppressed by the companies, and this last | exaction exhausted their powers of endurance. learned in the law are unable to frame indictments without assistance and the District Attorney will not lead them. A Grand Jury or two constituted as we have sug- gested would make things exceedingly sultry at the City Hall instead of generally making a poor quality of politics. Why do not the Judges try the experi- ment ? THE EXTORTIONS OF EXPRESS COMPANIES. MOVEMENT has been started by the Mer- A chants’ Association of New York to procure some form of regulation of express companies to put an end to the extortions they now practice upon the public. The promoters of the movement are vigorous men and are making an active campaign for the proposed reform. From reports that come to us it appears the pur- pose of the agitation is to obtain legislation bringing express companies, like railways, under the control of the Railroad Commissioners of the several States; and, in addition thereto, the association declares an intention “to bend all the energies of the mercantile class of the United States to substitute for the ex- press companies an efficiently organized fast freight service, which can perform practically the same func- ticns as the express companies at far less cost.” Commenting upon the excessive rates charged by the express companies the New York Herald says: “It is alleged by the association that this charge is sometimes valued so low as 4 cents for individual shipments, and sometimes as high as several dollars for the same work, the rate being lowered where there is competition with local carriers and inordinately ad- vanced where this does not exist. It is asserted that where the railway companies get $1 44 for carrying about one hundred pounds a distance of nine hundred miles, the terminal charges of the express companies upon the same package are $2 17.” It is worth noting that while the Merchants’ Asso- ciation support their movement by strong reasons drawn from the extortionate rates of the companies, the immediate cause of the agitation and the revolt against the extortion is the action of the companies ir shirking the war tax and shifting it upon the pub- lic. The merchants are reported as saying they had Whether the plans proposed by the association for relief are the best that could be adopted is doubtful. Regulation by State Railroad Commissioners might be beneficial in New York, but we despair of it in California. Nor is the probability of railroad com- panies furnishing fast freights sufficiently strong to be encouraging. A better plan would be to ask of the General Government a statute placing express com- panies, like railways, under the control of the Inter- state Commerce Commission and the adoption of a parcels post system similar to that which prevails in the more progressive countries of Europe. Under any circumstances, however, the New York agitation merits support throughout the country. The Merchants’ Association and the Chamber of Commerce in this city, as well as similar bodies throughout the State, should cordially co-operate with the movement so auspiciously begun. No express company in the Union has been more greedy, grasp- ing, disloyal and unpatriotic than that which operates in this State and plunders the public under the direc- tion of a psalm-singing Pecksniff who swindles all the week by tax-shirking and makes a farce of religion by dropping a nickel in the contribution-box on Sunday. New York has the honor of leading the way, but San Francisco should get into line at once and help her to make the fight and win it. NOT HAMPERED BY PRECEDENT. AWYERS declare that for the case of Cheese- L man, an Oakland murderer, the records of the — courts afford no precedent. For this the tribunal before which the man is to be tried ought to be grateful. Doubtless precedents are often useful, but that in many instances they are pernicious and work injustice | is equally certain. As times and customs and standards change, it is hardly reasonable to submit to the guid- ance of fusty opinions, filed by men dead now for gen- crations, who may not have been master minds when at their prime and whose opinions may have been based on a misconception of right and equity. Ap- parently the fact that an opinion becobmes embalmed in a book is often regarded as sufficient to give it a value. The modern Judge cons the decision dug up from centuries past, and dares not say his soul is his own. But if there is no precedent to rule in the Cheese- man matter the difficulty of giving the prisoner a fair trial will be reduced to a minimum. Cheeseman, in pursuance of a habit of killing people, a style of amusement appealing to his fancy, shot a resident of Oakland fatally and wounded some others. He was sent to an asylum, where the professional experts de- clared he was sane and had never been otherwise, and said in effect that his impulse to slay was due to a vicious tendency which should be repressed by more rigorous methods than detention in a comiortable asylum. = We have no desire to have the law applied with un- due harshness. The fact that Cheeseman knew enough to pretend, with temporary success, to be crazy, is evidence that he is of sound mind. Therefore, in the absence of hampering precedent, there ought not to be any particular delay in hanging the fellow. Something of this kind must be done, or the escape of Rosser will come to be regarded as the ruling pre- cedent, and assassins in California follow their voca- tion without hindrance. ACCURATE MARKET REPORTS. S to the accuracy of its market reports, The fl Call has not been wont to boast, as these mat- ters speak for themselves and are well under- stood among commercial men. It is not often that the market report of any paper comes before a court and there receives judicial com- mendation. not only as being superior to the reports of other papers, but as absolutely reliable and virtually official. The matter recently came before Judge Ogden of Oakland. As to the subject of controversy there is no interest here. Enough to say that a witness, Walter G. Manuel, testified that the prices as quoted in The Call were gathered- by competent reporters who daily visit the wharves, warehouses and com- mission houses. “The prices,” said Mr. Manuel, “are published in the big dailies, but The Call is most ac- curate in the matter.” 2 Such was the view of the court, and in accordance with it a case of considerable importance was decided. An attorney attempted to make it appear that The Call's reports were hearsay statements, but the court failed to indorse the view, on the contrary saying, “Such reports are better and more reliable than the testimony of one who has actually made a purchase.” The question will soon be decided as to whether or be forthcoming. The trouble is that grand jurors un- | not Mrs. Botkin is a hypnotist. A RARE CONCESSION The assurance that the Government of | 149 between the United States and Nica- Great Britain has given or is about to glve instructions to her representative in Washington to enter upon negotiations Wwith the United States Government for the abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty and the makihg of a new treaty will be received with satisfaction, mixed with surprise, by most people familiar with her previous unalterable attitude toward the question. For nearly fifty years England has in- sisted upon the validity of that treaty and the observance of its provisions by the United States Government and peo- ple, though she has come far short of living up to them herself or of even at- tempting to make certain energetic land grabbers claiming to be her subjects or acting under her authority to do so. For nearly twenty years the British Ministry has diplomatically fenced off all attempts on the part of this Government, through Mr. Blaine and his successors, to bring about this now graciously con- ceded result. The treaty was made in ‘Washington in 180 by Mr. Clayton and Sir Henry Bulwer, under conditions that have long since ceased to exist, and to carry out certain deflnite objects.for which a concession had been obtained by the United States by a treaty with Nicaragua, made the year before—that is, the buflding of a canal from ocean to ocean along what was known as the Nicaraguan route. This last treaty, among other things, provided that work should be begun and the canal completed within certain limits of time. The financial condition of this country at the time precluded the idea of our un- dertaking a work of such magnitude and of such enormous prospective cost with- out ald from the more bountifully filled money chests of Europe. So to obtain the necessary funds overtures were made in England, which finally resulted in the making of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. This, in substance, placed Great Britain and the United States on an equal foot- ing as to the enjoyment of the privileges of the concession which the United States had already obtained from Nicaragua and of the canal which was to be bullt under it, and at the same time bound each and both of the high contracting parties to abstain from all effort and any attempt either by treaty or force of arms to obtain any privileges or rights or ac- quire any territory in any of the Central American States in which the other was not to have an equal share. The time limit fixed by the treaty of FOR GREAT BRITAIN. ragua for the completion of the canal ex- pired before the work was even begun, and so the very ‘raison d'etre” of the Clayton - Bulwer treaty ceased to exist. Though doing nothing contrary to the provisions and agreements of that treaty the Government of the United States has ever since maintained that it was no h;nger valid, but voidable at her own op- tion, This fact was insisted upon by Mr. Blaine in 1881 and by Mr. Frelinghuysen in 1884 with other able arguments, among which was that Great Britain herself had persistently and insistently violated the provisions of the treaty in occupying and extending her occupation over a large part of the Central American States of Hon- | duras. Great Britain in reply has always maintained that the treaty was in force and that she had done nothing contrary to its stipulations. She has been entirely unwilling to surrender any point under the treaty or admit any argument that would tend to lessen the prospect of her control- ling or sharing in the control of the Ni- caraguan route. On this she has long had her eye. | The expedition which sacked and burned the city of Leon, Nicaragua, in 1665 re- vealed ‘to Great Britain the value of the lake for a line of inter-oceanic communi- cation and was the beginning of a series | of efforts to seize and control it. The | leader of the expedition said that “he val- ued the booty captured as nothing in com- parison to the knowledge he had obtained | Of the lakes and the country between the | two oceans” and that he proposed re- | turning to Ometepec (the volcanic island in Lake Nicaragua) “‘to form communica- tion between the north and south seas and control it therefrom.” Both before and after this the buccaneers who made their headquarters at Bluefields and who were mostly under English leaders had the countenance of the British officials. After the capture of Jamaica by the British in 1655 systematic efforts were made to control the transit trade through Nicaragua. Treaties were made with the Indian tribes along the Atlantic Coast and settlements were established at points between Cape Graclos a Dios and the Bocas del Toro, while the Bluefields buccaneers were encouraged and protect- ed with a view to paving the way to a British protectorate. Every inch and point so gained has been tenaciously held and used to block the way to any project for control or improvement of route in which she did not share. Two reasons may be assigned for Great Britain’s sudden change of attitude. Bith- er she has lately become imbued with a wholesome respect for the growing power and importance of the United States and wishes to make a big bid for our friend- ship by conceding what she must sooner or later surrender anyhow, or she ex- pects by her diplomacy to secure under proposed new treaty for her commercial and other interests everything, and more, than she would have under the Clayton- Bulwer agreement, and that without cost to herself. COMMISSICNERS SAY BALLOTS ARE VOID PISTOLESI WILL NOT WEAR JUDICIAL ERMINE. By This Decision Byington May Lose His Election as Supervisor of the Seventh. Garret McEnerney yesterday morning rendered to the Election Commissioners an opinion which, if the courts uphold it, | will make a difference of one in the Demo- cratic minority of the incoming Board of Supervisors, and by a vote of 2 to 1 the Commissioners upheld him. The commission met yesterday morning, with members Block and Tilton absent, and they came together with the express intention of hearing the opinion of Mr. McEnerney on the plea of Attorney F. Pistolesi for the counting of the votes cast for nominees for the unexpired terms on the Superior bench. As a result of the meeting, Mr. Plstolesi will not wear the judicial ermine even for a day, and By- ington may be compelled to give up his supervisorial seat to the Republican con- testant, Dr. Kearney. From the beginning of the official can- vass of the vote of the recent election the Commissioners have fought shy of the “unexpired term.” There were numerous votes cast, though the unexpired offices did not appear on the ballot, choices for the positions being written in in lead pencil on the tickets, and Pistolesi was the recipient of most of them. Up to the day that the result of the recount was declared he kept up a demand for the counting of the ballots, by which he claimed he had been elected, and on Thursday evening the Commissioners de- cided to test his case by calling in Mr. McEnerney. Mr. McEnerney's opinion was short and very much to the point. He said that Pistolesi was not a lawful candidate and that any vote cast for him was void. He contended that the election proclamation issued by the Governor made no call for the election of some one to fill the office of Superior Judge for the unexpired term, and, moreover, no such office was desig- nated on the official ballot. But Mr. Mc- Enerney went further than this. He said that any vote upon which Pistolesi’s name was written was invalld and must be thrown out of the count entirely, and if this opinion be backed by the courts the contest filed by Dr. Kearney against By- ington may win out for him. As it is at present, he is just eighty-four votes be- hind, and it is known that forty-one of the votes cast for Pistolesi in his own district were also voted for Byington. In case the courts abide by the opinion of Mr. McEnerney, this number will be more than enough to throw Byington out of he fight. i Bergre adjourning the Commissioners resolved to begin the count of votes for the unexpired term at 9:30 o'clock this morning. —_———————— ANOTHER VICTIM OF THE KLONDIKE CRAZE HE CAME FROM FAR BOHEMIA TO SEARCH FOR GOLD. Disappointed and Broken in Health, Adolphus Urvalek Sent a Bul- let Into His Brain. Adolphus Urvalek, a patient in ward B, City and County Hospital, committed suiclde yesterday morning by shooting himself through the head. The weapon used was a 41-caliber Colt"sflrevoll)ver. the erty of Urvyalek, which, gross g;glessyness on the part of the hospital management, he was allowed to retain. M Utyalek left the following note, written in lead pencil In a very neat hand: 22, 12, *%8. : Bec: ot general ill-health T de- B S i oma 1 Tns exictence. I.am only Sorry that I am to do so in this institution Where T recelved a graceful hospitality. But ble to leave. L nank you, theretore, sincerely, as well as Dr. Brigham and other doctors who Kkindly attended on me. My best wishes and prosperity for all. Kindly send immediately for my friend, Mr. E. Thorleuchter. Scott street, 112, nr. Haight, city, and deliver him my letter with his ad- dress on my table, B 2 my body equally at . Yours sincerely, L ‘A. URVALEK. Mr, Thorleuchter of 112 Scott street was notified of the death of his friend. He called at the Morgue and said he and Urvalek shipped from Liverpool last March and went direct to the Klondike, but with different parties. In the search for placer diggings they lost all their gold coin without finding any gold nug- ts, and they returned to this city, rvalek putting up at the Golden West Hotel. e was sick and had sustained n injury to his leg, and on August 6 was :emgi’regy to the City and County Hospital for treatment. The suicide was a clerk by occupation, 31 years old, a native of Bohemia and of good family. pe A Stanton Failed to Appear. The case of Dr. Ragan, School Director, charged by D. E. Stanton with soliciting a bribe, was set for a hearing before Judge Low yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock. At that hour the defendant and his attorneys—Foote, Terry and Dwyer— were on hand, but the court room was locked. They walited around for about fifteen minutes, when Clerk Haskins ap- peared and explained that Prosecuting Attorney Reynolds had in the morning asked the Judge for a continuance of the case till this morning. Stanton was not in court at the time. The attorneys were furious and there will be trouble this | morning, AROUND THE CORRIDORS Dr. G. D, Marion of Blue Lake is at the Grand. H. Swinburne of England is a guest at the Palace. George Wiley of Port Costa is registered at the Grand. Charles A. Adams, U. S. N, is a guest at the Palace. John Baker Jr. of Los Angeles is stay- ing at the Lick. M. O. Harrison of Portland is regis- tered at the Palace. B. F. Hartley, a mining man from Tos Angeles, is at the Grand. E. Wendnagel and wife of Chicago are staying at the Occidental. V. D. Gross of Denver is among the guests: at the Occidental. Ellis Johnson, a well-known grain-raiser of Stockton, is at the Lick. G. A. Blesingame and wife of Fresno are staying at the Grand. George W. Farley of the Eureka Stand- ard is in town for the holidays. W. A. Rankin and wife of Bakersfield are among the guests at the Lick. Bank Commissioner B. D. Murphy of San Jose is a gnest at the Palace. C. A. Curran, a prominent insurance man from New York, is at the Occl- dental. Leonard A. Crane of San Rosa, who owns large ranching interests, Is regis- terer at the Palace. Hon. Lafe Pence, the well-known Dem- ocratic orator, accompanied by his brother, Charles J. Pence, is at the Call- fornia. Charles H. Isham, a prominent mining man from Unga, Alaska, is at the Palace. E. M. Gaines, the well-known book- maker of New York, arrived at the Pal- ace yesterday. —————e—————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—C. B. Babcock of San Francisco is at the Cosmopolitan; Oscar Mevoe and family of San Francisco are at the Normandie; F. Barthels of San Francisco is at the Hoffman; Bishop John P. Newman of San Francisco is at the Murray Hill. ——————————— No Pay for Experts. Grand Jury experts are having some trouble in collecting pay. G. Edward Wright, who rendered services during the investigation of the ferry scandals, ren- dered a bill of $585 and the jurymen had to put up $30 each out of their own pock- ets to pay him. Professor Kilpatrick, who worked on the School Board charges, pre- sented a bill for $116, but as the jury had spent all of its cash it was put into the urgent necessity fund, as was the bill of his assistant, A. W. Atherton, for $90. Yesterday the Finance Committee of the Board of Supervisors declined to allow either bill and again the jury may be obliged to dip into its personal pocket. AL R S R S EKnocked Down by a Wagon. Mrs. M. Harper, an old lady living at 2215 Seventh street, was crossing Market —_—————— | and Seventh yesterday afternoon, when PRESIDIO HOSPITAL. | she was knocked down by a furniture wagon. She was taken to the Recelving Liberal Allowance of Money by the | Government—First Troop Utah Volunteer Cavalry The Secretary of War, through Quar- termaster General Ludington, U. S. A, has authorized the chief quartermaster of the Department of California to expend $113,338 on the new military hospital to be erected on the Presidio reservation. This sum is two-fold greater than the amount originally allowed and will enable the erection of a building sufficiently large to meet the demands of the service in this department. The quartermaster gencriu of the army appreciates the importance of the Presidio reservation. The decision to provide adequate and permanent hos- ital accommodations speaks well for his intelligence. Paymaster Downing paid the Utah troop of Cavalry at the Presidio yesterday. The troopers recelved their travel pay on the muster out and will leave for their respec- tive homes tn—n(ght_ The Utah troopers did not get to Santiago or Manila, but they rendered excellent service in the field of patrol duty in the mountains. In | a soldierly manner they accepted the as- signment of duty anu reflected credit on the volunteer army and the State of Utah. A board of survey was convened at the Presidio yesterday to inspect the horses turned in to thevpost quartermaster by the First Troop, Utah Cavalry. Rough on the Fishermen. Deputy Fish Commissioners Davis and Low went up the river on a sturgeon gear raid on Thursday, and the result of their efforts caused several fishermen to wish them anything but a merry Christ- | mas. Off in the bay opposite Martinez | and the Nevada docks over twenty sec- | tions of illegal gear were confiscated, be- | sides a number of valuable anchors. While the raid was in progress the fisher- men stood on the wharves and cursed the | deputles in all of the principal Latin lan- | guages of Europe. This kind of fishing | apparatus is very expensive and its loss | Hospital, where it was found that her | nose was broken. —_—— Townsend's, 627, Palace. Closed Sundys.® — Popcorn, 3 quarts 10c. Townsend's. . e ee——— 1 and 2 canes in box, 10c box. Townsend's.* —_——————————— |1 1b chewing candy in box, 25c. Townsend.* —_—————— Our famous broken candy. 3! 1bs in hand- some Japanese basket, 50c. Townsend's. * The best Xmas present: Townsend’s Cal- ifornia Glace Fruits, 50c, in_fire etched boxes or Japanese baskets. 627 Market st., | Palace Hotel bullding. . — e Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s). 510 Mn.lz(- gomery street. Telephone Main 1043. —_————— Thousands of packages in %, 1, 2, 3, 5 and 10 pounds of Townsend's California glace fruits, 50 cents a pound; all ready for shipping. Send your orders and we can ship for you at reduced rates. 627 Market street, Palace Hotel. » —————— No Joke. As we don’t pay $1000 a month rent, you can buy men's and boys’ clothing, hats and caps, neckwear, etc., for the holidays at 25 per cent less than on Market street, sure. L. V. Merle, “The Old I. X. L.* corner Sixth and Misslon streets. — —e———— “Speckelhorn is a.real war hero.” “Him? He never got out of the coun- “i know he didn’t; but he hasn’t worn his uniform since he was mustered out.”— Cincinnati Enquirer. — e No Christmas Table should be without 2 bot- tle of Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters, the fin. is severely felt by the owners. est appetizer, imported from South America. OF INTEREST TO BUYERS. Purchasers’ Guide to Respomsible Merchants, Mamufacturers, Brokers, Im- porters, Wholesale Traders, Jobbers, Insurance and Real Estate Agents CATALOGUES AND PRICE LISTS MAILED ON APPLICATION. In Corresponding With Any of the Tellewing Firms Pleass tion “The Call” ART WARE AND ANTIQUE FURNITURE. THE P. ROSSI CO., @rtistic Furniture and @rt Ware importers. 117 SUTTER STREET. MANUFACTURERS. GOLDEN GATE WOOLEN MFG. CO. Manufacture Blankets, Cassimeres, Tweeds ana Flannels, £35 Market st., San Francisco, Cal. Goods for sale at all leading cry-goods stores. BAKERY AND CONFECT!ONERY. WM. SCHOENING, Sn'spine, trade supplied. 639 Broadway. BELTING. Manufacturer of Belting and L. P. DEGEN, [t Eenier. fosc107 Mis. slon St., cor. Spear. Telephone Main 562. BOILER MAKERS. EUREKA BOILER WORKS, ‘W. J. BRADY, Proprietor. Special Attention Pald to Repairs and Ship Work. . Office and Works—113-115 MISSION ST. Telephone Main 5045. BOOKS AND STATIONERY. THE SAN FRANCISCO NEWS COMPANY, 342 1o 360 Geary Street, Above Powell, Periodicals, Books and Stationery. CARRIAGE MAKERS. O’BRIEN & SONS©intacs, stacks, Viciorias, Carts and Buggles. Golden Gate avé. and Polk st., San’ Francisco. COAL, COKE AND PIG IRON. C. WILSON & CoO., 900 BATTERY STREET. Telephone Main 1864. COPPERSMITHS, SANDERS & CO., practical coppersmiths, mfr's of sheet copper and tubing, improved con- lls, etc. 415 Mission st., near First; all work guaranteed. d. MARINE INSURANCE. SWISS MARINE INSURANCE COMPANIES. Combined Capital, $4,000,000. & CO., Agents, 301 California st. PAPER DEALERS. W|L|.AMETT PULP AND PAPER CO., 722 Montgomery Street. PIANOS. The Oldest Firm and Largest Stock. PIANO and MUSIC STORE, KOHLER & CHASE, 28 and 30 O'Farrell st. A corps of expert tuners and repairers. PRINTING, E. C. HUGHES. 5, S357F2: . STATIONER AND PRINTER, 206 Call~ g PARTRIDGE &5t THE HIiCKS-JUDD CO., fnater. 5ok ... TYPEWRITERS. All Typewriters Rented. Few partly used for sale chea AGENTE SMITH PREMIER. L. & M. ALEXANDER. 110 Montgomery street. WALLPAPER. WHOLESALE & retall; send for samples, stat- ing quality & color. DUFFY CO., 2§ Howard. WAREHOUSEMEN. THE HASLETT WAREHOUSE CO., :"‘:Tvan'rudlns A}{ent- lgdGPublfic Weighers. Gea- rage, Free and Grain Warehouses, eral office, 210 California st Tel, Matn 108" HUNTERS’ EQUIPMENTS. Gu“s Hunters' Equipments, Fishin, 739 Market street. HARDWARE, IRON FOUNDERS. Western anfl?t: Morton & Hedley, Props.. FRESH AND SALT MEATS. Tackle, Athletic Goods, ete. Sen: p‘Anl.aCE Hardware Co.,Importers & Dealers 234 Fremont WATCHES, ETC. T LONDY, it et B e WHITE ASH STEAM COAL, BLACK DIAMOI:‘I‘)‘::GO:!,.‘ ;;‘;NING CO. at Its GREEN RIVER COLLIERIES, Is the Best Coal in the Market. Olace and Yard: M.lln El::et. WOOD AND IVORY TURNING. JAS. BOYES & C0., S5 f it for catalogue. GEO. W. SHREVE, lardware, 603 Market. Tel. Main 752, scrintion Made to mngfsa;w C, F, HAAS, mfr wood articles, any descri) tion. Plaring, turning, 417 Mission, tel. M. 5927,