The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 3, 1899, Page 6

40 ESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1899 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, * .....JANUARY 3, 1899 7JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propnetor. unications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. OFFICE.......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone :Main 1GS. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2IT to 92| Stevenson Street Telephone: Main 1574, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND S8UNDAY) Is served by carrlers In thls city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month €5 cents. i 5 THE WEEKLY CALL, 18 pagos ..One year, by mall, $i OAKLAND OFFICE.. ...908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room 168. ‘World Buillding DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Répresentative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE... Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE.......... .Marquette Bullding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. 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Vaudeville an Eddy stréet Piano Recital. hal Jan. 4, at 327 Sixth st., A SINGULAR DISPHRITY.‘ CCORDING to a morning newspaper a lobby- ing in hand at:the last session of the ¢ the famous Assembly - Bill .273—a h. it was -charged, proposed to interfere then pending in Judge ard’s department of the Superior Court—paid ece for votes in the Senate.and $250 apicce According to the same ced to pass the bill; that ver of votes were purchased in A h the Hale & Norcross su Het for votes in the Assembly rity these amounts at the figures- named to send it to the Governor. We do not refer to this r for the purpose of g the ent of contemporary. On the we we think if all prob- As we Bill 273 it possessed are iree to d upon- fact. s backed by lobby s desired by a millionaire seek- bilities .in one of the.courts. ut the range of probability to conceive ase out-of Heb- led against Him—the lat- vty 2 BLUTHEY S frvs get his as singular is 500 for their votes Is it because thiere are Is it be- cause it costs more to get to the Senate than to get mbly? Are Senators better talkers, clev- deeper thinkers, better financiers, ful in the art of selling their votes? On is the tariff referred to based? The cost ial votes is apparently double that of As- votes. ‘There must be some explanation of But the point which has ‘struck thi Why S, and Assemb s hould" Senators get men only Senators ‘as Assemblymen? telligent person- knows that none-of the we have propounded can be answered in ve. The tariff for .Senatorial- support is fixed by the size of,the Housé, nor by the cost { election, nor because Senators are smarter than Assemblymen, nor because they are greater adepts in getting a fair price for their votes. We. do not krow wh s in the upper hoeuse should cost double as much as in the lower, hut we are niorally certdin that affirma ve the fact is not due to any of these cause: How, then, is the digparity to be accounted for? . That it ought to be accounted for is undeniable. As | things are going all the boodlers are making for the Senate and in the course of time there wi quence be none i 1l in conse- the Assembly. This will be in the rity. . Without boodlers in the. Assem~ bly there will be nothing for the corporation lobbyists do, and they will urally turn to ‘burglary, pick- ing pockets, footpadding and the other-unlawful oc- cupations for which their peculiar talenfs fit them. In the meantime our contemporary should ascertain why he Senate bring-$500 and in the Assembly only $250. Can it be possible that these figures rep- resent the old principle of all the traffic will bear? If s0, t should be established [ nature of a cal 1o « votes in t the NOT CITY EDITOR WARREFN. trust practiced -by the telephane company there was o on to allude to the city editor of Examitier as .party to the fraud. . In justice to Mr. Warren, the present city editor of that paper, The Il desires to state that no.reference was had to him. This the gentleman himself understands, and.so do all the newspaper men of the State, but the truth might not be clear to the general public. In view of possible confusion, this explanation, being a simple gladly made. matter of justice. i While to permit \\';dhcr to make a farewell tour of the tenderloin and’ indulge in- a ‘final spree may have been kind, it was a plan riot to be regarded as a precedent. soner must ordinarily submit to the hardship of sobriety, and perhaps it is better thus. By the w how did it happen. that the President sent congratulations to the peace commission and never a word to-the yellow journals who had.so firm nd yet so modestly conducted the war to a The gentieman selected by Judge Treadwell to act as bailiff of his court has had the misfortune to blast his chances of an ofti It is to.be hoped the Judge may find another as good or even better ‘than an ex-convict of homicidal tendencies, ZETERAT If a woman really cannot keep a secret she will naturally feel sympathy for the telephone éompany. —_— A message of condolence flitting either way be- tween Burns and Quay would be timely. al career. Yesterday was a holiday at Sacramento, too, but the people up there seemed mostly to forget it." N MAKING an expose of the methods of betray- | COL. DAN BURNS CONFESSES HIS CANDIDACY. T LAST Dan Burns has declared himself a can- didate for the United States Senate. He issued the proclamation y‘esterday. If designed to create a wave of enthusiasm, it failed abjectly. If meant to surprise, it fell equally short of its purpose. That Burns had long been a candidate was known to the people of this State. It had been known so far back as when Burns, having secured the confidence of Editor de Young, was engaged in gilding a brick | for presentation to that gentleman. The only doubt arose from the difficulty of compre- | | hending how a man of repute so unsavory, with so | lengthened a record of trusts betrayed, of friendships | | sordidly abused, could have the measureless effrontery to assume an attitude which would certainly lay bare [ to the world his personal history. Instead of seeking | official honors, such a man, unless within him lay | dead all sense of decency, would rather court oblivion and pray to be forgot. | When suspicion of his real intent became a certain- ty, some journals, including the Call, felt that an ex- | posure of the Burns character was a duty, and while the facts presented were not new, some of them had grown dim in the general recollection. For the ne- | cessity of refreshing the memory of the people Burns | is alone to blame. For him to pose as a martyr is | simply for him to be ridiculous, yet he poses as a | martyr and fancies that a halo bedecks him. Burns asserts that his good name has been taken from him. | He errs in that he had no good name of which to be | deprived. Years ago he deliberately threw it to the | winds of scandal. Now he laments that it is gone, and | for his own fauit blames those whose only relation to | the. matter has been to tell the truth. He begs for sympathy. His soul pines for a vindication, and this | he fancies can be secured only by election to the United States Senate. He wants California to send him to Washington, to throw over his past, for which he has never expressed contrition, the mantle of char- -, and to give him credentials as a trusted agent in one of the high places of the nation. There could not well be a presumption more impucent and monstrous. It is an insuit to the commonwealth. California cannot afford to choose as Senator a man who is still indebted to it in the sum of $31,000 ! for money stolen from it while he was Secretary of State. * With all his millions, Burns has never offered to make restitution. If he has experienced the emo- tion of regret, he has refrained from expressing it. If, since that wanton misdeed, he has acquired a new set "of principles they have not been made manifest by any change of conduct. He carried into private life the same code of morality which had shadowed his public career with disgrace. And now this man asks that a vindication be given him, and given in such a manner that the State, which has suffered through My, Stare Wit NNm e peratty uf - Shanre. Thiy would be more than forgiveness, it would be folly. It would be the extending of a reward to the trans- gressor who had escaped punishment, condoning an offense for which the offender had not requested for- giveness. California wants a Senator who can represent its best interests and its manhood. It does not want a person of the Burns stripe. There is upon it no obli- gation to “vindicate” any rogue, and a vindication which involves the bestowal of honors which worthy ' men would be glad to receive would carry too far the spirit of turning the other cheek. The most that Burns could reasonably expect would be to be undis- | turbed as he goes about his ordinary vocations, and his qualities m\‘hcraldcd. If he projects himself into a “fierce light” it is not logical that he should shy at the misshapen silhouettes it casts. | Y the disclosures made in The Call on Sunday TELEPHONE EAVESDROPPING. B concerning the manner in which spies and eavesdroppers obtain information from the telephone wires there was laid before the people of San Francisco one of the most serious outrages | against honor, private rights and business honesty | that has ever been committed in the history of the | country. It is an outrage which affects all classes of citizens ‘and even invades the privacy of home life | and the confidences of husband and wife, since the spying eavesdroppers who contrive to tap the tele- phones to learn the affairs of business rivals are sure to tap them also when they desire to gratify a sneak- | ing curiosity concerning any individual or family. As was explained on Sunday, The Call was led to | undertake an investigation of the subject by the fact that a telephone message from one of its reporters { was betrayed to the Examiner. Starting from the | discovery of that offense The Call traced the iniquity | out and discovered that an habitual system of eaves- | dropping is practiced by that paper through the me- diim of telephone wires. Three decoy conversations | carried on between The Call and different people were | betrayed to the listening spy in the Examiner, and | other evidences showing the extent to which the ras- | cally practice is carried were discovered. Of course, anything like a complete exposure is | impossible. It will never be known to what extent | the telephone company has permitted the sneaks of | the Examiner office to listen to conversations over its wires. It suffices to say that no one is safe in con- | versing by telephone in this city. The eavesdrop- } per is listening continually and has an ear for the pri- | vate talk of families as well as for that of politics and business. A prompt remedy is needed for the outrage. A | faw making this betrayal of confidence as gross an offense as that of breaking open a private letter should be enacted, and for the sneaking eavesdropper there should be a term in penitentiary. Of course, owing to the absence of Mr. Hearst the evacuation ceremony at Havana was a little slow, but under the circumstances it went off as well as could have been expected. | | Seiee Senator Hanna need feel no alarm at the threat of death conveyed in an anonymous letter. The writer of such a missive is before all else a coward. Pl s One discouraging circumstanc. the chaplains of both houses must face is that some of their auditors |are beyond praying for. THE RAILROAD’'S BAD FAITH. EFORE the election the railroad swore by all B the gods at once that it was out of politics. Its asseverations were so loud and so constant that it was almost painful to hear them. They were ap- parently so sincere that they were implicitly believed. It is now feared that its pledges were false and that its disguises have been thrown aside. Whether Dan Burns be a candidate for the United States Senate in reality or for the benefit of some other person equally acceptable to the railroad and less obnoxious to the public, a question is presented which every Republican in the Legislature should re- gard as of vital importance. That question is whether the choice for President so far as this State is concerned shall be treacherously turned over to the Democratic party in 1900. Unless a Senator be chosen who is at least negatively respectable and who will represent the railroad only as part of his con- stituency, Republican defeat in 1000 is certain. Every legislator who contributed to that defeat would sound his own political death knell. There is no escape from this proposition. Only the sensational press assumes the unrecognized right of dictating to courts or to legislative bodies, which, within their proper limits, should be firmly upheld in unrestricted independence of thought and of action. There are many Republi- cans who would do no discredit to the Senate of the United States—some by whom that body would be honored—and every right-thinking man, whatever his individual opinion, should be satisfied with the selec- tion of one of them by the unfettered action of the Republican majority in the Assembly and the Sen- ate. But there are two elementary facts upon which it is right to insist—that the elected Senator be, first, competent; second, respectable. It cannot be pre- tended that either of these conditions is met by Dan Burns, or by any other candidate to whom his in- fluence is likely to be transferred. Of late years, and especially since the somewhat general adoption of the Australian ballot, the voters of the United States have exhibited marked inde- pendence and discrimination, as was strikingly proved in the elections of 1808. Throughout the Union stump oratory and the alternate wheedling and bully- ing of newspapers like the Journal-Examiner had very little weight. In this State the ranting of the fusionists against corporations and property and in favor of proletarian Democracy produced the exact effect that was not anticipated. The voters exercised their instructed and balanced judgments, and they overwhelmingly demonstrated their aversion to free silver at sixteen to one and to all the other grotesque and un-American features of the fusion platform. Thus they vindicated the principle of popular sov- ereignty. But there is one thing they did not do. They did not hand the State over to the Southern Pacific Com- pany in order that it might choose a Senator for its own benefit and to enable Mr. William F. Herrin, himself a Democrat, to beat the Republican party in 1900. That is a trick which the higher class Demo- crats of California and of the Union would themselves be the first to expose and to condemn. All through the late canvass in the Republican press and on the | E : | that of Commissioners La Rue and Hin- stump the assurance was definite and constant that the railroad was out of politics, and it was indignantly and repeatedly denied that its deft hand had moved the Republican State convention or any county, dis- trict or municipal convention. The truth undoubted- ly is that no vote more expressive of the deepest sen- timents of the people was ever cast in all our history. 17 1t should twin OUT that any of the Officers elected, municipal or State, executive, judicial or legislative, were secretly railroad tools, then the public and the press were grossly and wantonly deceived. While falsehood is now virtually confessed by the railroad, so far as the legislators themselves are concerned the presumption is that they were not parties to the decep- tion and that they are beyond corporate dictation and, therefore, beyond the power of Dan Burns and his associates. The Southern Pacific Company has a right to fair treatment, which it has not always received, but to nothing more. If it now seeks to force the election of a Federal Senator, owned by itself, and should succeed, confidence in the Republican party will be locally destroyed. This would be the fact, even if the man himself were of fair standing, and doubly the | fact if a name should be put forward that stinks in the nostrils of decency. Surely the Southern Pacific Company itself, embracing as it does so many gentle- men identified with the solid interests of the country, does not really imagine that it can falsify its own pledges, and by brutal coercion and by coarse brib- ery compel the election of Dan Burns or his substi- tute through the representatives of a free and inde- pendent American constituency? Can it be possible that it has reaclied such an exaltation of self-import- ance that it proposes to substitute itseli for the legislative department of the Government, and, in the name of the State, appoint Dan Burns or some one like him as its agent at Washington? If this condi- tion of inebriety exist it demands correction, and we have faith to believe that correction will be adminis- tered by the Legislature, not only from policy, but on the higher ground of principle. If the State Re- publican organization should be smashed into pulp through an unprecedented betrayal of the people and violation of definite pledges, a responsibility would be incurred that even the railroad could hardly bear. There would be a political revolution in California. The same weight of public sentiment that crushed Bryanism in 1806 and fusion in 1898 and held all human rights, including property, whether of individ- vals or corporations, within the equal protection of the constitution and the laws, will smash the railroad power if it attempts to usurp the Government. And the next lesson it receives will not be from cranks, fanatics or self-seekers, but from the conservative and solid elements of the public. Our people will not tolerate, after an election, the cold repudiation of promises made before an election. The merchants, the bankers, the manufacturers, the farmers, the tradesmen, the mechanics and the laborers of Cali- fornia united in one grand and successful effort to overthrow what they conceived to be a revolutionary attack upon our institutions, but they made no bar- gain to accept Dan Burns or his equivalent as their Federal leader or to help the railroad in schemes of self-aggrandizement or revenge. They insist that the Republican pledges shall be kept and that property and franchises, as well as personal liberty, shall be safeguarded by public officers yielding allegiance ex- clusively to the source whence their authority is de- rived. For obvious reasons the Examiner will never effectively resist corruption in the choice of a Federal Senator and an audacious attempt to seduce the Leg- islature into the temporary disruption of the Repub- lican party in this State naturaily commands its in- direct support and also that of its tender, the Bulletin, but it will be resisted by The Call and, as we are glad to observe, by the Chronicle also, and by other lead- ing Republican papers and committees. It is hardly to be supposed that a combination between the rail- road and the baser elements of the Democracy can be sanctioned by legislators fresh from their constit- uents and with the taste of their solemn pledges still 1remaining in their mouths. APPOINTEES OF RAILROAD COMMISSION Will Probably Be Named To-Day. ANNUAL REPORT SUBMITTED HUNTINGTON CRITICIZED AS A WITNESS. Valley Road Will Solve the Fare and Freights Question—Memorial Adopted on Stanton’s Death. Contrary to the announcement, the new Board of Rallroad Commissioners, con- sisting of N. Blackstock, E. B. Edson and C. S. Laumeister, did not organize yes- terday, the reason assigned being that it was a holiday. It was thought best to defer this work until to-day, for which purpose the new board will come together at 10 a. m. There are three patronage positions in the gift of the three members, and ac- cording to reliable reports, the appointees havealready been selected. W. S. Sesnon, ex-County Clerk of San Francisco, is slat- ed for the secretaryship, Mr. Foley, a relative of Commissioner Laumelster, is to be the bailiff of the board, and James D. Brown will in all probability be the stenographer, though he has a rival in Stephen Potter, the stenographer of the old board. It is also the announced purpose of the new board to move from the present quarters of the commission in the Chron- icle building, owing to lack of room. The members of the old board, com- prising H. M. La Rue, W. M. Hinton and W. R. Clark, have filed their final report with the Governor. It is a voluminous document and fills nearly 120 typewritten ages. In the course of reviewing the gourd‘s work for the year just past, the report says in regard to its efforts to re- duce grain rates § per cent in the Stati We regret to have to state the case of the Southern Pacific Company againstethe Board of Rallroad Commissioners, restraining it from carrying into effect the schedule adopted re- ducing grain rates 8 per cent is still pending in the Circuit Court of the United States. Testimony is being taken before Master in Chancery Heacock. It is claimed by some of the members of the old board that the past year should show, by rea- son of increased earnings, such profits for the railroad as will make it legally pos- sible to make the sought for reduction. Tribute is paid in the report to the high qualities of C. P. Huntington as an art- ful dodger of disagreeable questions. He was before the commission In connection with its investigation of the Southern Pa- cific Company. The opinfon expressed is ton, Commissioner Clark having =~ de- murred to having it incorporated In the report of the board, ese are the words of the commission: Mr. Collis P. Huntington appeared before the commission May 2, 186§, and was examined from day to day until May 15, 158, His an- swers were characterized by ‘that persistent evasion which has always been the leading feature of his testimony alike before courts, commissions and Congressional committees. Mr. Huntington proved to be avery remarkable witness. Upon all questions affecting the con- structlon of railroads, their physical condition, when built, and by whom, he was very famil- iar and well informed, but on the original cost of construction, the value of stocks, the pres- ent value of roads, upon which we desired in- formation, his memory was very poor, and his knowledge of but little tmportance to us. High appreciation of the economic valus to the State of the Valley road is shown in the report as follows: The San Francisco and San Joaguin Valley Rallroad has_extended its lines through the Ban Joaquin Valley to Bakersfleld, and at the present time has its engineers surveying from Stookton to Oakland, which, when completed, will be of great benefit to the shippers and growers on tha line of said road, and will, in a great measure, regulate the question of fix- ing fares and freight rates. After reviewing the proceedings which resulted in failure to investigate the af- fairs of the Southern Pacific Company on the complaint of John R. Robinson, and to regulate fares on street railways, the report concludes with a memorial on the death of Dr. James I. Stanton as follows: It is with profound regret and sorrow we record in this report the death of one of the members of this board, James I Stanton, who died in his home in San Francisco ‘'on December 25, 1867. The exalted character and distin- guished services of the deceased appro- riately demand the highest recognition, No member who has served the State and who has contributed to the efficiency of this commission has left a deeper impress or a larger place in the hearts of the peo- ple. His example will inspire other men to strive to emulate the performance of noble deeds for the benefit of mankind. In all positions, s he was ever helpful to the needy and un. fortunate. His place will be hard to fill. As 8 member of this board he was above reproach, his every act being char- acterized by ability and high minded zeal for that which is right. His aim was al- ways to allay, 8o far as possible, differ- ences between complainants and the rail- roads without litigation. Lvery one with whom he came in contact admired the tender-hearted man, and it was frequent-, ly said of him that he did n~+ have an enemy. He was a man of strong convie- tions, his ways were the ways of friend- ship ‘and his words were words of kind- ness. Dr. James I. Stanton was born in the city of San Francisco on the 20th day of May, 1860, where his boyhood days wers pussed, until his entrance to St. Ignatiue ollegé, where the foundation of his early education was laid. He then entered Santa Clara College, and, after the usual course 9L ptudies, graduated with high honors in Young Mr. Stanton selected the medical profession as _his future vocatlon, and pursued a course of studles in the medical department of the University of Califor- nia, whence he graduated and received his diploma in the vear 1882, r. Stanton's first public office was that of physician to the San Francisoo Fire Department, where, in the display of con- ecientious attention to his duties, he en- deared himself to all. _He was elected Coroner of San Fran- clsco in 1886, After fulfilling the duties of this office for the term for which he was chosen he retired to private life, from which he was again called to publlo life by Mayor L. R. Ellert, who honored him by conferring the appointment of Super- visor of the Third Ward of San Fran- cisco upon him, During his incumbsnoy of the office of Supervisor, Dr. Stanton was again honored by his fellow citizens by being elected to the position of Rall- road Commissioner of the Second District of this State, which office he was filling at the time of his decease. His generous, genial, cheerful, nature endeared him to all. fg° friend ife, with almost paternal kindness, he won the hearts of his acquaintances and assoclates. His loss to the State is fir- reparable and is keenly feit by his asso- clates on the rd. ‘‘He rests from his labors and his works do follow him." lovin, Socially l.ng f the people in all walks of Among the matters left for the new board to complete is the investigation of the affalrs of the Pullman Car Company, with a view to reducing its charges for sleepers in this State. Mogan Holds the Fort. Thomas F. Graham will take his seat this morning in one of the courtrooms as Police Judge. In anticipation of a flank movement on Graham's part Judge Moiln.n was on guard yesterday afternoon at his courtroom, but no movement was made by the enemy. There m: b trouble morning. i Stricken With Apoplexy. Fred Burress, a ship liner, fell dead yes- terday afternoon at the corner of Broad- way 1m:d D;.{vls streets, presumably from apop! . He was a native of Ki aPOUL 33 Fears old. and was the father-in: law of Patrick Stevens, driver of the Cal- ifornia~street station patrol wagon. I ‘con’ as that. Then the patrol came and MR. HERRIN'S MAN BURNS. The Examiner is as qulet as a mouse | when Burns and Gunst are mentioned —what a difference inside of four years in the principles of the Monarch.—Pub- lic Opinion. NEVER FIGHT IN THE OPEN. If anybody thinks the people of Cali- fornia want Dan Burns to misrepresent them in the Senate at Washington, will he please rise up and give the reason therefor? Excuse us—the Burns gang never do things openly.—Berkeley ‘World-Herald. DANIEL MAZUMA BURNS. It would seem as though the particu- lar pattern choice of the San Francisco Examiner for United States Senator is Colonel Daniel Mazuma burns of Mex- ico.—Sacramento Bee. BURNS AND BRIBERY. The bribery methods being used at Sacramento by the Burns gang to se- cure the Senatorial votes are so open and shameless that it may be said to be a certainty that if a legislator vote: for Burns or his substitute that leg lator has been paid for his trouble. The | people of California do not want a man of the Burns stripe to represent the | State in the national Senate, neither do they care for men who are open to pur- chase in the State Legislature.—Ocean- | side Weekly Blade. DISHONEST AND DISGRACI'ZFL'L.‘ The present Senatorial situation in | California is one that will cause an ir creased desire for the election of United States Senators’ by direct vote of the | people. The State is now threatened with the election of Dan Burns to the | honorable office of Senator. Mr. Burns’ | career as a public man has been such | a dishonest and disgraceful one that he | would never dare to ask for an office | which is filled by direct vote; but owing | to the present indirect method of elec- tion for Senator we are in danger of | having our State represented in the highest lawmaking body of the land by | a man in whom we have no confidence | and who is regarded as unfit for a posi- | tion of trust.—Fallbrook Observer. BURNS AND THE EWSPAPERS. Dan Burns, in conversation with a | representative of the Times at San Francisco on Friday, declared, among | other things, that the newspapers were | | facts made known. | the press is simpl “attacking” him. This is really quite amusing. Dan Burns in the role of an injured innocent is something for gods and men to smile at. However it may be with the gods, men throughout Cali- fornia will smile broadly, not to say audibly. But Dan Burns, in point of fact, is attacked, not by the newspapers, but by his record! The newspapers, in showing up his unsavory record, are simply telling the plain truth about him as it is their duty to do. 'If the plain truth hurts Mr. Burns, that fact is Mr. Burns’' misfortune. He has no right to blame the newspapers for it. He should, rather, blame himsélf for so conducting his affairs as to.gain a rep- utation which is an offense in the nos- trils of decency If Mr. Burns were an honest man—if his record were free from stain—he would have nothing to fear from the newspapers, His record, if it were cred- itable to him, rather than otherwise. would not suffer from publicit It would rather benefit him to have the The newspapers can neither defeat nor injure an honest man, whose record, public and. private, is all right. Such a man can defy all adverse influences. But Dan Burns is not such a man Dan Burns r s under conviction for a serious crime committed in the repub- lic of Mexico, for which he was once imprisoned, and for which he would again be imp: 1 if he dared to set foot on Mexic There is a shortage of some $5000 in Burns' accounts County Clerk of Yolo County, California, which is still unaccounted for. £ There a shortage of some $30,000 in Burns' accounts as Secretary of State, which has never as yet been made good. Burns is known throughout the State as a notorious gambler, patron of horse races.and all-around &port. Burns is involved in the voting ma- chine scandal, by which an attempt was to have been made to foist upon the State a voting machine which has no tence in point of fact, no such ma- chine having ever been built. For a man with'such a record to com- plain that he has been “attacked” by laughable. His com- plaint is about as re ble as that of Theodore Durrant, who felt greatly ag- grieved because the newspapers pub- lished in detail the evidence which con- son AROUND THE ; CORRIDORS | G. M. Book, U. B. N., is at the Occi- dental. M. L. Wright of Tulare s staying at the Grand. C. E. Bragg of Portland is at the Occl- | dental. | W. E. Miller Jr. of Santa Cruz Is a guest | at the Grand. | Attorney A. L. Levinskey of Stockton is | at the Palace. | Attorney Paul C. Morf of Stockton is at the Grand. | C. M. Sain of Lovelock, Ohio, arrived at | the Palace vesterday. | H. B. Clark of San Diego is among the guests at the California. | R. M. Pogson, manager of the Tejon ranches, is at the Palace. | W. H. Nichols, a rancher of Courtland, | is staying at the Grand. | Attorney Charles L. Smith of Sacra- | mento is a guest at the Lick. Albert Bettins; manager of the Byron Hot Springs, is at the Palace. J. L. Hess, a_well-known commercial man from New York, is at the Lick. | F. A. Hihn, a prominent merchant of | Santa Cruz, is a guest at the Occidental. Willle Collier, better known as “The | Man From Mexico,” is staying at the | Grand. | 060000 “I under-| stand,’’ said SAZARAC CLUB ¢ President High-| balls as he call- | SUSPENDS ed the Sazarac | TWO MEMBERS. & Lying Club to or- | der, ‘“that two | ©—& members of this organization were guilty of un-| seemly conduct on Saturday night.” | Mr. Thaddeus Tomwaddy, the politician, | and Mr. Clear Havana, the cigar manu- facturer, both prominent members of the club, looked sheepishly at each other as President Highballs made his startling announcement. Mr. Tomwaddys right | arm reposed In a sling, while the left op- | tic of Mr. Clear Havana was as black as the shine on his patent leathers and tightly closed. | “I am reliably informed by Sergeant | Michael Joseph Conboy,” continued the President, “that Messrs. Tomwaddy and Clear Havana enjoyed a ride to the City | Hall at 1 o’clock on Sunday morning as a | result of a little joke that they carried too far. The sergeant says that at the time the identity of the two gentlemen was unknown to him. He further stated | that they both showed a decided disin- | clination to enjoy a ride at the city’'s ex- pense, and that the little argument that | he had with the gentlemen while assist- ing them into the patrol wagon resulted in some little damage to their persons.” Here the president paused and looked at the two members in question. | “Well,” said Mr. Clear Havéna, “I sup- pose it is of no use trying to get out of it, and If it is any pleasure to the club I will relate how it happened. On Saturday afternoon that confounded old pirate, Tomwaddy, came to me and proposed that we should join the crowd on Market street that night. I did not want to go, but he insisted. He said that we were getting old, that we were too much ab- sorbed in business affairs, and that the little outing would do us good. He pro- posed that in order not to be recognized we should hire two disguises and black our faces. After much persuasion I con- sented. Tomwaddy there he rigged himself up as George Washington, while I was supposed to be the Apostle Paul. We started out about 11 o'clock. Of course we attracted considerable attention, but | we did not mind that, and all might have | gone well 1f Tomwaddy hadn’t insisted on buying a horn and blowing it in other people’s ears. About midnight we struck a water front gang and all of them were sailing along on a full tide. When they passed us that old pirate blew his horn | in the ear of one of the gang. The fellow | turned around and invited Tomwaddy to 80 where he has a good chance of going anyway. “‘One word led to another, and the first thing I knew one of the gang knocked off Tomwaddy’s cocked hat, then another Jerked off the beard I had rented and caised me an old stif. I went at him, and in the shuffle I lost my robe and san- | dals. Tomwaddy tried to get out of his | general's uniform, but somebody jerked the tails of the coat over his head, tear- ing off his wig and splitting the coat up the back. Just then along came the ser- geant and arrested us. Tomwaddy was as mad as a wet hen. “ ‘Do you know Who I am? he roared onboy. Cert; you and that guy pard of yours are two of the toughest coons in the city, and I have been looking for a chance to nab you.’ I told him our names, and Conboy sald we couldn’t give him no such victed him of murder.—Los Angeles Times. they just jammed us into it. When we got to the City nall and got the black off our faces the police recognized us and let us go.” Here Mr. Tomwaddy spoke up. “Yes that is how it occurred, and you can bet that I have done with New Year celebra- tion. That George Washington uniform | cost me $20 and I wouldn’t have sprained this arm of mine for a hundred.” Both members were fined and suspended Irum1 the club for a week. Dr. A. F. Parlow, a well known phy: clan of Boston, arrived at the Palace yes- terday. A. P. Parker and wife, who are mission- aries returned from China, are at the Oc- cidental. John Poole, a well-known and wealthy shipbuilder of Seattle, arrived at the Russ yesterday. J. B. Peakes, proprietor of the Sea Beach Hotel at Santa Cruz, is a guest at the Palace. W. 8. Berdan Jr., a well-known insur- ance man from Portland, is registered at { the Occidental. M. P. O'Connor of San Jose and W. J. O'Connor of Jackson, Tenn., are regis- tered at the Palace. Converse J. Smith of Concord, N. H., a special agent of the United States Treas- ury Department, is at the Palace. J. C. a merchant of Portland, He is accompanied by his wife and is on his way to China. N. J. Noldstad is at the Occidental. He is In the city on his wedding tour. He is a prominent citizen of Mt. Vernon, Wash. Mr. and Mrs. S. Guggenheimer of Den- ver are among the guests at the Palace. Mr. Guggenheimer is a prominent capital- ist. S e 1 CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Jan. 2—Henry Harrison Scott, Blanche Bates, San Francisco, Gerard; D. McLees, San Francisco, Nor- mandie;_ John Hemphill, San Franclsco, Gilsey; Louis Glass, San Francisco, Hol- land; Henry Grass, Los Angeles, Hoffman, —————————— Struck His Promised Wife. Tom Milton, a well-known sporting man, engaged in a dispute with a woman companion on Market street sterday afternoon, and becoming exasperated at some remark passed by her he struck her in the face with his clinched fist. Sev- eral citizens who witnessed the brutal act summoned Policeman Murphy, who laced Milton under arrest. At the City Prison he was charged with battery and drunkenness. The woman refused to give her name, but declared that she was the promised wife of the prisoner. —_————— Cal. glace fruit #c per 1b at Townsends.® planat oS b Special information supplied dafly to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * SR e e “Do you think that the people on earth remember us still, George?"' asked T. Jef- ferson of G. Washington, as the two worthies indulged in reminiscencés. “Remember us, sir’” replied G. 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