The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 4, 1899, Page 6

¢ i THE SAN ' FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1899. Address All Communications to W, S. LEAKE, Manager. P/UVBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. F. | Telephone \ain 1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS...... ..217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1574, DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. | Sirgle Copies. § cents 1 Terms by Mail. Including Postage: { DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 6 months. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 3 months. 8U AY CALL, one year WEEKLY CALL, one ye All postmasters are auths . Bample coples will be forwarded when requested. | OAKLAND OFFICE.. ..908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room 188, World Building | DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. | WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE...............Riggs Hou-ol C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. | CHICAGO OFFICE ... Marquette Building | €.GEORGE KROGNESS ing Representative, Ad BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until | 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 943G o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2991 Markey/ | street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 | Mission street, open until 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 strects, open until 9 o'clock. | | AMU EMENTa } a Perichole."” -— phe Vaudeville. | Comedy — “'Spider and Fly” Sunday night. | Chutes and Zoo—Planka, the “‘Lady of Lions.” Iympia — Corner Mason and Bllis streets, Speclaities. | | Park—The Steeplechase. | - Clay Hall—Concert this afternoon. | muple—Plano Recital Monday evening, Feb- | itorfum, Oakland — Shakespearean Recital \| ! | rack—Races To-day. THE PEI{FIDY OF WRIGHT. NE point in connection with the retirement of O Howard E. Wright from the Speakership of the Assembly can scarcely have failed to at- t the attention of observing persons. igating committee reported that. Mr. epted money from Ulysses S. Grant | plied promise to support him for United States Senator. The transaction was denounced by igators as immoral and subversive of Legis- iecency. The report was adopted by the .v\s-‘ after debate, and therefore stands as the de- | serate conclusion of that body. Yet Mr. Wright is | owed to resign the Speakership, resume his place | upon the floor of the House and take the positions up es which have been occupied by the man who succeeded him as Speaker. Naturally the reflection to which all this gives rise is not ¢ ated to reflect much credit upon the mem- | bers who have ratified Wright's reinstatement. If | the raced Speaker is not sufficiently honest and virtuous to preside over the Assembly, by what process of reasoning can the Assembly conclude that | he is fit to occupy a place upon the floor where he | may vote for the passage of laws and participate gen- erally in the deliberations of the House? It seems to us that an Assembly which will permit | such a compromise as has here evidently been made | i> a weak and thoughtless body. There is nmhing} Spartan in accepting the resignation of Wright and | then continuing to associate with him. If Wright is the boodler and confidence operator which the inves- tigating committee reported him to be he ought to | cpelled from the Assembly and sent into private1 h all the obloquy possible heaped upon him. rce to mete out such punishment as the As- sembly has decided adequate for his offenses. Members of the Assembly should, however, note that this proceeding is not going to end with the ad- journment of the present Legislature. Thousands of Repu ns throughout California have reached a ate of disgust upon the Senatorial subject which is | rapidly changing their political tendencies. If the | Republican party desires to continue in power in this State it cannot through its representatives palliate | such moral crimes as have been committed by How-" ard E. Wright. A political organization which will | not maintain its seli-respect in the presence of the in- fluences which were exerted to save this miserable | reprgbate cannot hope to receive much consideration | at the hands of the people when it asks for a re-lease of power. An inve Wright had upon an i ra lisg life wit Itis a aN P there are such indications of rottenness as recall the shameful history of the McDonalds, father and sons. It would appear that depositors had been robbed, | funds loaned reckless of security, and thousands wasted in chimerical schemes. All this has a familiar sound. Where a bank should have been a financial | stay to the community it has been the means of caus- ing distress to many and actual ruin to others, some of the sufferers being wholly innocent. There is a Bank Commission, and at this juncture a question arises as to what it is for. Assuredly the body in this instance has fallen far short of the measure of duty. It examined the now closed insti- tution last December. and pronounced its affairs in good condition, whereas they were really in a des- perate condition, and the bankers had even before re- sorted to extraordinary means to delay the evil day of collapse which they must have known to be near at hand. If a commission authorized to subject the books and accounts of any bank to the closest scrutiny can go through the form of doing so and emerge from the experience utterly befooled as to the real status of the concern, the commission is useless and might as well be abolished. It is a high-priced and super- fluous ornament. The best work of a police force is not always in catching a thief, but in preventing a theft, and analogous to this should be the work of a Hank Commission. It should be a guard betiveen the depositor and the knavery or incompetency of the man handling the deposit. When it is anything less, its purpose is unaccoptplished and its existence vain. INEFFECTIVE COMMISSION. ERHAPS the time has not arrived for passing final judgment on the conduct of the Union | Savings Bank of San Jose, but it is certain (haz" If the anti-cartoon bill is going through, the able artists of the press ought to work overtime until the fatal day. e Nobody has yet suggested that the cold spell.at tlie East was due to the recent meeting of Miles and Eagan. il v Brandes did not get a change of venue, but if it is | justice he wants he can get it right in Oakland. ! law, no limit. | recommendation. COLONIAL GOVERNMENT. ENATOR PLATT of Connecticut, in his S speech for imperialism, declared this Govern- ment, as a whole, to be a sovereignty, with all the powers thereof, and that those powers were limited by the constitution only when they are exer- cised within the United States. This being true, his contention is that in providing colonial government for tropical islands. in the West and East Indies we may do by them just as we please, because the con- stitution -has neither granted nor taken away the powers necessary in the Federal Government to be exercised on distl'.mt and alien people, fallen into our ownership by ‘conquest or the fortunes ot war. This statement is absolutely true. , The Senator has therein laid the proper foundation for a system of colonial government unknown to the ‘ constitution and to exercise powers not granted by that instru- nient to the Government which it created. It is also true that there is no check upon such exercise of the authority of the Federal Government, except the public opinion of the people. We will not be long embarked upon such an experiment before it will be discovered that government of these tropical colonies must be executive, that Congres cannot, in | regular or special session, attend to the issues which will constantly arise in the unconstitutional govern- ment of those distant peoples. The President must be the final authority and the actual ruler of those im- perial possessions. His authority will not be limited one jot by the Federal constitution. Its sole measure will be the extent of the necessity for his action. He will be more independent than the Czar, who rests under a coronation oath and certain principles of the empire that have grown into law since the reign of Rurik. Here there will be no such principles, no In the United States the President will be a constitutional officer, subject to impeach- ment for a very slight deviation from the path laid down for him to follow. Abroad, in our colonial em- pire, he will be an absolute monarch, an Oriental despot, not pent nor controlled in the ‘use of his power, and backed by the awful strength of eighty millions of people. What American desires this duality of power and official character in the President? Whenever and wherever it has been tried the constitutional char- ter of the officer has yielded to the autocratic. A Roman citizen was hedged about by all the guarantees of the civil law. A provincial Roman was subject to the will of the Roman politician who héppened to be set over him as a reward for partisan services. ‘Under the Roman system, which finally destroyed that republic, the provinces and cgnqucred ccuntries contributed to the growth of greaf fortunes in the hands of their Governors, which in turn were used in politics in Rome to perpetuate the profits of the provincialofficers. At last freedom fell in that republic by injection of the poison of unlimited power. There rises now in this country a justifiable outcry against the seizure of the Senatorial office by men who have enriched themselves by some form of gov- ernmental favor and privilege. If they extract these fortunes from our own people and use them in do- mestic politics, what is to be expected when a dis- tant people, unsheltered by the constitution, are the victims, and our domestic politics may be controlled as casily as now? The claim for imperialism made by Senator Platt’ is the best reason for refusing to enter upon that poliry. ac However strongly the Morehouse bill for the slaughter of newspaper men may commend itself to the Senatorial intelligence, it is destined not to go through without amendment. - For instance, Stratton wants a closed season of twenty days, which is kind the Morehouses a chance to count their dead and merely authorizing the statesmen to kill it offer a OMETHING of encouragement for the advo- the salaries of a considerable number of Consular at- J way to be remedied. sular officers Senator Halé, chairman of the Appro- and thoughtful. This would give the surviving jour- nalist a chance to lay aside his bultet-proof shirt, and clean up their weapons. We would suggest that the measure would be more nearly periect if instead of reward for the scalps of the slain CONSULAR SALARIES. S cates of an improved Consular service has been afforded by the vote in the Senate increasing taches. It would have been better if the whole sub- ject had been thoroughly revised, but in the lack of that revision it is gratifying that at least some of the more flagrant instances of underpay are now in a fair When attention was directed to the parsimony of the appropriations providing salaries for the Con- priations Committee, stated that the committee had not given the subject of salaries any thorough con- | sideration and suggested that the Committee of For- eign Relations take up the question and make some The suggestion is not a bad one, and it is to be hoped it will be eventually acted upon and an adequate pay for all branches and departments of the service be provided. ' s Without waiting for such reference of the issue the Senate proceeded at once to deal with some. of the salaries reported in the bill and raised a considerable number of them. There was some opposition, of course. Senator Cockrell of Missouri, for example, declared the present salaries to be ample, and by way of proving his assertion asked: “Have you ever known any applicant for Consulships to object to the saliaries before taking office?” To such argument as was contained in that sar- castic question Senator Gallinger answered: “Sena- tors receive $5000 a year. Many others would take the position for half that sum. Some men in Mon- tana and other States, judging from accounts in the newspapers, are willing to ‘pay a bonus for a seat in this body. But that is no reason why Senators should not receive decent salaries; nor is it a reason why some of the young men abroad should not be paid proper salaries. Some of these salaries are meanly inadequate. Our Consular servic. is verging in this respect upon what I deem disgraceful.” With the increase. of the products of our indus- tries, the. demand for new markets and the extension of commerce, the importance of the Consular service increases. We must rely largely upon the work of our Consuls and their clerks and attaches to assist in the promotion of our trade with foreign nations. That work cannot be efficiently pe’rformed incom- petent men, nor will it be performed well Dy discon- tented men. Good men and good pay are as neces- sary in that as in any other department of the Govern- ment, and the surest way to obtain the one is to pro- vide the other. B — Alameda soldiers got no more welcome than an or- dinary boatload of commuters. Alameda feels ashamed now, and it ought to. Lttt One of the hardest knocks the expansion policy has to combat is the steady advocacy of Dick Croker. get his gun has not arrived. . | ing people. Nevertheless the time for Senator Morehouse to | | entire population. THE LATE SENATOR BOGGS. HE death of Senator Boggs impressively draw: to the public attention his close relation to the birth and growth of this commonweaith and the deep historical importance of the class of citizens of whom he was a noted representative. The men who, by land or by sea, reached our soil in 1849 were ex- ceptionally gifted. They combined intellect, educa- tion, enterprise and character beyond any similar mi- gration, not even excepting the passengers by the Maytlower, and they have made the pioneers of Cali- fornia known and honored throughout the world. Many of them have attained national and even inter- national distinction, and so many great lives have never before sprung from so insignificant a number. The most important service rendered te the country and to humanity, however, by this select body of American citizeis has undoubtedly been their work in the founding and in the building of a State that scems destined to become the center of American civilization in its highest and most permanent form. Among the manifestations of power and of energy that enter into history this is the most useful and the most enduring. L Senator Boggs was broad enough to comprehend his country and yet céncentrated in his devotion to California. Intellectual, educated, at once logical and practical, thorough in everything he undertook, combining enterprise, perseverance and patience in just proportions, dignified and yet accessible, refined and therefore plain and simple in his address and in his manners, careful in deliberation and sound in judgment, prudent and exact but generous within the limits of justice, he was of the best type of manhood and of citizenship. He came here to stay, and drew ‘from the lavish wealth of nature a prosperity that in- jured no man and benefited not only himself but our He established and maintained a home, where plenty and happiness reigned, and thus became an examplar of the best American society. He was a farmer and a fruit-grower on.a large and diversified scale, and in these occupations employed modern inventions and the highest skill and system. He used his knowledge and his experience for the common good through local and State organizations. He was conspicuous in clean politics and served the | people faithfully in many public capacities, not for money or to gratify ambition, but to improve his fel- | low citizens and to reduce the destructive forces of | crime and of lunacy. He was officially connected | with both of our universities, and effectively aided the cause of higher education. Such men as John Boggs are the salt of the earth. They constitute the antidote for the gambling specu- lators and foul-hearted politicians infesting American ARE ACCUSED OF LAYING PIE- CRUST BITUMEN Charge Made Against Contractors. MAYOR PHELAN IS INFORMED REAL ESTATE OWNERS' ASSO- CIATION IS WATCHFUL. Has Engaged an Expert to Examine Into the Work Done by the City Improvement Company. e + + O LR R S S PR The above communication has been pre- | comimunities, who live on vices and weaknesses, who | consume but never produce, and whose entire in- | fluence is corrupting, lowering and degrading. It is well for the State and for the nation that the deceased | Senator was not companionless, and that there still | remain with us pioneers and many other citizens completely identified with our substantial interests and our enduring progress, and some of almost im- perial opulence, who pour back their riches into the land that nourished them, and in peace or in war, in adversity or in prosperity, remain American in heart, American in thought, and American in conduct. THE FAMINE IN RUSSIA. O absorbed are the American people 'in their S own prosperous business or in the considera- tion of political problems, it will be surprising to many to learn there is now raging in Russia a famine of extreme degree and wide extent. It has reached such large proportions, according to all re- ports, that some authorities are of the opinion that the earnest effortsof the Czartobringabouta diminu- {ion of the armies of Europe are prompted mainly by the need of money to relieve the stricken districts of his empire. A European correspondent of the Pittsburg Dis- patch, in giving an account of the situation, says: “The official reports admit that no less than nineteen provinces, with a population of 40,000,000, are ai- | fected by the famine, and it is worthy of note that the sufferers comprise not merely the peasantry, but likewise the landed gentry and territorial nobility, who in many instances are seeking and obtaining Government and even private relief. In fact, the barine and the moujik are alike reduced to beggaf¥, and, terrible as was the famine of 1891-92, the present one far exceeds it in horror.” The writer goes on to say that the lack of pasturage and forage has been so disastrous that even in many agricultural districts not directly affected by the famine 80 per cent of the rural population is without horses or cattle, and therefore without means to plow their lands. In the famine districts hunger typhus has broken out among the people, and there are grave fears that during the coming summer Russia will have a plague almost as appalling as that which swept over India in the wake of the famine in that country a few years ago. ‘While these reports may be somewhat exaggerated, it is not unlikely that the destitution is great. The Russians are a poor people. They have very little stored wealth, and the failure of a crop means not merely hard times, as in the United States, but ac- tual misery and starvation. It is, therefore, not to be wondered the Czar desires 'to reduce his army and hasten the construction of railroads and canals that will open up rich grain-growing regions to his starv- The days when the tribes of Asia and Eastern Europe could march out of a famine country and invade a fruitful one have gone by. It is not by war, but industry, that Russia must seek salvation now, and it is fortunate for her that she has rulers wise enough to know the truth and to act upon it. Grove Johnson wants the heirs of a convicted mur- derer who died in prison while awaiting a second trial to be paid $10,000. Oddly enough he asks that the State hand over this sum, although for him to hand it over out of his private purse would be just as reasonable and far more generous. The Governor of Vermont filled the vacancy in the Federal Senatorship of that State occasioned by the death of Senator Merrill by the appointment of Jonathan Ross, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of that State. Here is a suggestion for our Legis- lature hat it is unlikely to adopt. . An exchange publishes as the portraits of three tough girls & trio of handsome faces which might well belong to well-bred university students. Yet there are statesmen who would Asup;)ress the artist as one prone to distort and malign. It is a good thing for Kipling that he is once more in this country. The English stories he has been writing lately show that he is running short on in- spiration. Perhaps if‘ Judge Treadwell were to expel more of the chronic loafers from his department he would not find the air of the place so debilitating. © San Jose seems to be having experience with an almost McDonald style of banking. - > d e pared for transmission to the city’s chief executive by Secretary Albert Jeffreys of the Real Estate Owners’ Association. It| is based on a personal examination made | by an expert engaged by the executive | committee of the association and is sent to the Mayor for the purpose of compell- ing the contractors who are laying the bitumen to live up to specifications. | The Real Estate Owners’ Association is | composed of lead g citizens of this city and has on its executive committee such | well-known men as Thomas Ashworth, | J. K. Pryor, J. W. Finn, A. M. Speck, J. | A. Bergerot, Dr. C. S, Mann, E. E. Liddle, George W. Haight, W. W. Campbell,. J.I ‘W. Flynn, B. H. Lichtenstein, C"m"i Ewing, Captain W. J. Bryan, Daniel Grenninger and A. F. Lejeal. The asso- ciation was formed to secure just taxa-| tion, improvements of streets, uniform | sprinkling of streets with salt water and to consider all subjects tending to pro-| mote the welfare of real estate in the city and county of San Francisco ‘When it came to the knowledge of the association that the City Improvement Company was not carrying out its con-| tract a well-known expert was employed | to critically examine the work. He did so | and reported back that the specifications | were not being lived up to. Mr. Bergerot, a member of the execu- tive committee, was seen last evening and | said that the association’s representa- tive was a competent investigator. Mr. Bergerot further stated that the associa- tion would take no further s%ps in the matter; that its auty was accomplished when the city authorities were informed of the dereliction. A meeting of the assoclation will be | held on Monday evening next in the office | of A. M. Speck & Co. It is understood | that the Mayor will be in attendance and | discuss with the members matters per- taining to the welfare of the city. AROUND THE . CORRIDORS. SR A. Berg of Portland is at the California. Charles G. Dormer of Fresno is at the Grand. 1. J. Spenser of Towa Hill is a guest at the Lick. , G. H. Andrews of Detroit is registered at the Palace. D. G. Roberts and wife of Los Angeles are at the Grand. L. 8. and Charles Roth of Cincinnati are guests at the Palace. H. B. Chase and Isi Jacobs of Portland are staying at the Grand. L. R. Jones, a banker of Salt Lake City, is a guest at the Occidental. T. M. Bchumacher, a photographer of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. D. J. Straus and wife of San Antonio, Tex., are guests at the Grand. Captain S. H. Morrison 6f Santa Clara is registered at the California. C. W. Harman of New York was among the arrivals at the Palace yesterday. Alexander Brown of Milton, a member of the State Board of BEqualization, is at the Lick. John D. Spreckels started for the East | last evening on a business trip. He will | be gone several weeks. George B. Harris, vice president of the Burlington Railway, is at the Palace, He is accompanied by his brother, John F. Harris, and Robert Forsyth and George Manierre, all of Chicago. The entire party is here for pleasure. . Benjamin Warfield Brown and wife and William Brown, accompanied by their nieces, Mrs. May and Miss Priscilla’ Hitt, all of Springfield, IlL, are at the Califor- nia. They are all relatives of General R. H. Warfleld, and are here merely for pleasure, having arrived from Coronado yesterday. —_————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—F. 8. Poland of San Francisco is at the Normandie. C. C. ]l;loore of San Francisco is at the Shore- am. ———————_ CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW_YORK, Feb. 3.—Harry C. Lath- rop of San Francisco is at'the Bartholdi. ———— e et . WILL DISCUSS GAINES’ LAW. ‘Wheelmen’s Association To-Night. The regular monthly meeting of the board of governors of the California As- sociated Cycling Clubs will be held this evening at 562 Parrott building, the rooms of the Cycle Board of Trade. From all the talk that has been going around in wheeling circles since the last meeting the gathering to-night will be a ‘wordy war from the rap of the president’s gavel. The bone of contention is an amendment passed at the last meeting permitting any member of the association, no matter where he resides, to ride in any open, club or team event held under the auspices of the association. This is the now famous Gaines amendment. What the oy%onmon are trying to get through is a change of the wording, so that no man can ride in the relay or twenty-mile events unless he has resided in the city from which his club comes at least sixty days prior to the race. For in- the twenty-mile comes in sum- tance, mer, & if a rider were to go on his mer, and yet T vacation away from his abiding %lnce any time sixty days befort the race, he would be ineligible to ride. o The forces back of the Gaines amend- ment are 1e|d b; th|e Bay Cltnymxhsfilgmle‘;lé The Olympie eelmen are opposll’lronpflghn There will doubtless be a full meeting and a hot time to-night. Wheelmen are looking forward with considerable pleasurable anticipation to the fourteenth annual ball of the Bay City Wheelmen, which will take place next Wednesday night in the mal le room of the Palace Hotel. President ahrba.%h states that it will'be one of the most ;\ah- orate entertainments in the history o t 'e club. Fadie C. Bald, the champion short- distance rider of the world, who i knl(l"én as the,Beau Brummel of cycling, wil o te the guest of honor, and may be ix‘nduced a: lead the cotlalo!}. as l;ni_da’c esrns amex a leader as he is as - S ir ited to -the® members and }ile‘r&gls, invitations being obtainable only from the members. o eee——— SHOULD BUY HERE. Efforts to Have Government Supplies Purchased in the West. £ the Several weeks ago the officers O Chamber of Commerce communicated with Senator Perkins asking him to use his influence in getting the department officials at Washington to purchase the supplies for the army and navy of the Pacific on this coast: alsv; to‘ai\!‘slstu!}:l: , manager of the local Manufac- e nd - Producers’ Association, in his endeavor to have the supplies for the Indian reservations of the est bought in this State, instead of having them all urchased in the East and sent West. g’esterdey the following reply was re- ceived from the Senator: “I am in receipt of your telegram of 24 and have placed it before the January is: Indian Affairs, with a + “Honorable Mayor James D, Phe- 4| SO i0nen, Sfondies he made m Cali- 4 lan—Dear Sir: It has come to the 4 | fornia. I will gladly cu-opelrnte vl:tx!:h!gtre. : Efrfn:'néfieEi’fifztéfv;??"fusi 4 | year made puicha'ses Bflldounlg‘lg tI(; S}%. = | Cali nd other Pacific 4 being-done on Market street be- 4 | times its intention fto purchase there 4 tween Sixth street and Van Ness 4 | everything possible for the use of the 3 avenue is not being done in accord- 4 | army and navy on the Pacific. 4 ance with the contract and speci- + | + fications, viz.: +1 4 “The basalt rocks aré being laid + WEATHER RECORDS | 4 upon four inches of sand, with only 4 | 4 three or four inches of concrete -0] SMASHED AGAIN 4 ugderneath. The roadway is only 4 | o 4 having four or five lnchenh of coné z;TEE MERCURY BEATS HISTORY 4 crete instead of nine inches, an 3+ the mixture is only about one-half + | SEVEN DEGREES. |+ of the cement. + —_— 4+ “We have had one load examinedt, z | Greatest Range in Temperature and 4 and watched the proportions of Sl 4 mixture, which is seventy-five cubic 4 About the Lowest—Killing 4 feet of Tock and sand to one barrel 4 Frosts ¢t the Heels of 4 of cement, which would be in the + Recent Heat. + proportion of about 1 to 21, instead + 4 of 1 to 8 Very respectfully, + 3 “EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REAL + The weather has made another sensa- 4 ESTATE OWNERS' ASSOCIA- | tional record, as it did last week. A week + TION.” 3 ago Thursday was the hottest January % 4| day San Francisco had ever known, with the mercury up to 78 degrees in the shade, while the whole State was bathed on phe- nomenally hot sunshine. Then it started in to show its versatility, and it has proved it by beating the greatest previ- ous January range of temperature seven degrees. When It suddenly started to cool off early in the week it soon gave the coldest weather of the sedSon. Yesterday ‘morning the thermometer stood at 87 degrees, which, except for one phenomenal day eleven years ago, was within one degree of the lowest tempera- ture shown by the records since 1871, when the record began. This was a drop of forty-one degrees in about a week. The greatest winter range in the city’s meterological history had been thirty-four degrees in 1888, so that the range record has been beaten seven degrees. In seven previous years the January minimum has fallen as low. In 1880 it was also 37. In the years 1876, 1883, 1890, 1893 and 1884 the lowest was/ 36, one degree | colder. The phenomenor of the record is | 29 degrees in 1888, In 1873 the lowest was 46 afd the minimum is generally in the 40's, *‘Cold, very cold,” said Forecaster Will- son, “‘and it's going to stay cold for all I can see.” . This cold snaP is in a sense the fringe | of the big freezing blizzard that is raging | in the Colorado region. There's a big | “high” all over the West, and the cold | winds are coming over the mountains into the State from the east and north. Yesterday evening it was 12 below zero in ‘Wyoming, 2¢ below at Helena, and simi- larly frigid all over the Northwest. In this State it has got down to the freezing point at Sacramento, Fresno and | 1 | other interior points, and wherever it dldl not happen to be cloudy the frosts that had been feared crisped leaf and bud, and }vere the sort officlally known as “killing rosts.” “There will be ‘killing frosts’ pretty generaily over the State to-night,” said Mr., Willson last evening, “‘and possibly still more severe ‘through _there being less cloudiness. The resulting damage will depend on how far advanced the fruit buds are. My reports on this point are so conflicting that it is too early to say much that is definite, but there is a possibility of much damage.” —— e, This Week’s Wasp. This week's Wasp contains a variety of attractive illustrations scattered through its pages, and its budget of comment on local and national events is witty and in- teresting reading. The cover cartoon, “The Necessity of the Hour,” depicts a legislative machine that seems to be much | needed at Sacramento. The recent furor | in Oakland over the bibulous habits that | obtain with some of that city’s gentler members of society comes in for a fling, “To Drink or Not to Drink,” in verss and_“A Barrack-room Ballad” is indicted to Messrs. Eagan and Alger, which re- lates “The Rotten, Stinkin tory of the | Rotten, Stinking Beef,’ after the catchy style of Kipling. The Wasp’s school of | yellow journalism gives some inside in- formation about the methods of yellow artists; Teresa Doane, in ‘Social Side Lights,” relates some gossip from Sacra- mento, and a couple of stories of the week that were told in club circles. “Why Smith Left Home" is explained by Touch- stone in humorous vein. R. A. Luchesi contributes some of his always interestin musical comment, and a_couple of goo tales are told in the “Lend Me Your Ear" column. The sketches are particularly good and the half-tone illustrations very beautiful. The middle page half-tone car- toon, drawn by Gordon Ross, with ac- companying verses by the “Yellow Jour- nalist,” portrays ‘‘Ye Ancient Robber Baron and His Successor, the Yellow Journalist,” who plies his pen with as much success as did his prototype the sword in corraling Colonel Mazuma. —_——— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, KANSAS CITY—J. R. City is in Missouri. There is no pl f that name in the State of Knm?a.g',cebflt there {8 a Kansas Center. MEAT INSPECTORS—G. F. B., city. There are nine United States Inspectors of Meats at the slaughter house in San Frlnenclsco and all are -under civil service rules. F. O. B.—Anambulus, French Camp, Cal. The initials “f. o. b.” used in trade &mtatlans mean “‘free on board;” that is, e goods are shipped at the expense of the seller. WATCH AT THE SEPULCHER—J. M. ‘W., City. Persons desiring the name of the author of a poem should furnish the g:l'tml:ne o;:he polel;\. as in b‘?oks of ref- e oems are index and no?hy the title. Py e R T A CITIZEN—Anambulus, Freneh Camp, Cal. The son of an alien is a native of the country in which he was born and at the Become 1 titizen oF. the conncry in hn e coun in w! he was born of of that of his father. AN ANNUITY—G. P., City. In life in< surance parlance *“a simple annuity poli- oy" provides that in considération of the :&m&u at one m::l of a specified gross e company will pay to the annuit- ant a stipulated sum n:nuuly. elthex?un;r :1 v'ot::;(‘; tm-n‘nxl tcar dfirl lite. “‘sur- annuity policy,” sometime: b en by on:arm.ner for another by a ;emgr for a creditor, and otherwise for a busi- ness security, guarantees the payment of @ stated sum to the person named by the person taking the policy, during the peri- .od in which the nominee sutvives the in- sured. As this department does not 13- vise any one as to investments it cannot answer the other questions embraced in {::rmlgtsr afm uiry. ou can obtain he intgma urance com- ., city. Kansas AGRICULTURAL POSSIBILITIES N PHILIPPINES S. A. Knapp Considers Them Unlimited. FORTUNES EASY TO MAKE SOIL OF wHE ISLANDS PRODUC- TIVE OF EVERY PRODUCT. This Is the Report of the Represen- tative of the Secretary of Agri- culture Who Has Been Mak- ing Investigations. S. A. Knapp, probably the largest and best known sugar man in the United States, cértainly the leader of that indus- try in the State of Louisiana, is a guesf at the Occidental Hotel. Mr. Knapp ar- rived yesterday from the Orient, where he has been for some time past, making expert researches into the agricultural | possibilities of that part of the world, in fulfiliment of a mission which he accept- ed from the Washington Government last spring. Mr. Knapp was requested by the Secre- tary of Agriculture to cross the Pacific, thoroughly acquaint himself with all per- taining to the department of agriculture and return with a report which might serve as an intelligent basis for the Sac- retary to work on. While in the East Mr. Knapp visited Manila and looked over the new fleld presented for American en- terprise. He says that the Philippine Islands pre- sent vast possibilities for those who have a moderate capital to invest, but are no place for those to go who are obliged to depend on their hands for their livell- hood. Skilled mechanics will do well there at present, but even the demand for skilled labor is limited, and consequently the openings for craftsmen are not many in number. Mr. Knapp considers the chances excel- lent in most lines of agricultural pursuit. The islands, he says, contain thousands upon thousands of virgin acres that need only the touch of the husbandman’s plow to bring forth rice, sugar, cotton, coffee, indigo, copra—in fact, every product pos- sible in the tropics—in such profusion as to, in a few years, make a young, indus- trious man comparatively independent. “These islands,” said Mr. Knapp, “are of wonderful fertility and can ‘produce anything possible in those latitudes. Naturally, while I did my best to collect all the general information I could while there, yet, as a practical sugar man, I v;'als most interested in that particular ar- ticle. “For the growing and manufacture of sugar the Philippine Islands present a field that cannot be surpassed, and the opportunities for money-making in this direction are enormous. ““The soil and climatic conditions of the islands are particularly adapted to the cultivation of sugar cane. In our country it is only possible to grow cane nine months in the year. The weather in Lu- zon and the other islands is such that the cane will need comparatively little atten- tion. It can be left standing in the earth throughout the year, with the result that when cut it will contain a larger percent- age of saccharine substance and produce much more to the acre. The only reason this has not been demonstrated before tc the world is to be found in the unpro- gressiveness of the people. Their meth- ods were old a hundred years ago, and if they can by the most crude methods pro- duce enough sugar for their immediate wants they desist in their labor and rest themselves well content. For a young, active, progressive American who has a few dollars to invest in land and machin- ery and a few more with which to pay for his labor and other incidental expenses, I see no better opening than the sugar business in the Philippines.” Mr. Knflpé) also said he had looked into the reported mineral wealth of the coun- try with the result that he is fully con- vinced that the islands will upon investi- gatinn be found to be exceedingly rich in leposits of gold, silver, lead, copper and coal. He thinks that the islands should be retained by the United States Govern- ment, both because they will be a \good aying investment and because he says Ee can see no other way out of the dilem- ma in whie¢h the war_has placed the Gov- ernment. As to the Filipinos themselves, Mr. Knapp thinks they have afforded con- siderable assistance in one way. The gov- ernment of the islands, as far as it re lates .to the domestic matters of the is- lands themselves, should be placed to a great extent in Filipino hands. That care- ful and considerate diplomacy founded on justice will do away with all serious trou- ble between the Filipinos and Americans Mr. Knapp is quite certain. ‘“‘There are many smart men among these same Fili- pinos,” said Mr. Knapp, “and while the reat mass of the native population are gnorant and undeveloped, yet there are quite enough men among their leadeérs who are sufficiently advanced to take care of themselves.” Mr. Knapp will soon leave for Washing- ton and as he stands high in the estima- tion of those in power his views may have considerable weight toward framing the policy which will be ultimately adopt- ed toward the inhabitants of Luzon and the thousand-odd other islands which have been presented to the United States by Dewey and his jackies. In the Divorce Courts. Bianca H. Colombo has been granted a divorece from her husband, Enrico C. C. Colombo, on the ground of extreme eruelty. Lyda White has sued Andrew White for a divorce, alleging failure to provide as a cause of action. Cal: glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsends.* ke Ot it Special information supplied daily to business houses and pullic men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s). 510 Mont« gomery street. Telephone Main . { —_————— Fell From a Reof. John W. Lord, a carpenter, while at work on the roof of a house at Bay and Buchanan streets, yesterday morning, fell to the ground and was severely injured. He was taken to the Receiving Hospital. —_————— The most efficacious stimulant to sharpen the appetite Is Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters, See that you get the genuine. ———— Stole Money From a Child. Michael Enrlght. a big, burly man, was yesterday held to answer before the Superior Court by Acting Police Judge Barry on the charge of grand larceny in $2000 bonds. He forcibly took $3 from a Chinese little girl on Clay street.