The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 8, 1899, Page 6

'HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1899. X FEBRUARY 8, 1809 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propretor. A Ay Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manl.ger. PUBLICATION OFFICE .Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telepbone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2IT to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Sirgle Coples. § cents Terms by Mail, Including Postage: D:ILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 6 months. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 3 month: DAILY CALL—By Single Month. BUNDAY CALL oné year WEEKLY CALIL; one year. . 100 All postmasters are authorized 1o recelve subscriptions. Bample coples will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE.... NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.. Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Corrcepondent. CHICAGO OFFICE Marquette Bullding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—52T Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAlilster street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:3G o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1805 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second anc Kentucky streets, open untlil 9 o'clock. AMU-EMENTS Columbia—*‘The School for Scandal. California—*""Why Smith Left Hom Alca: Peaceful Valley.” Tivoli—""Suzette.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Comedy—*'Spider and Fly."” Chutes and Zoo—Pianka, the “Lady of Lions."” Olympia — Corner Mason and Ellis streets, Specialties. Central Park—The Steeplechase. Metropolitan Temple—Piano Recltal February 9. Mechanics' Pavilion—Six-Day Cycle Race, Commencing Mon- day, February 13. Ingleside Race Track—Races to-day. Thursday evening, CALIFORNIA AT THE FRONT. OWEVER weary the California volunteers at H Manila may have become during the long dreary days of waiting that followed the occu- pation of the city, and however eager they may have been to return home and resume their lives of busy occupation, we may be sure all such feelings van- ished when the attack of the natives upon our lines roused them to action and summoned them to battle. All reports from the Philippines unite in giving to the Californians credit for distinguished gallantry during every phase of the fight. When our lines were subject to a galling fire from a troop of natives for- tified behind the thick walls of Paco church Colonel Smith saw the importance of dislodging them, and | promptly ordered an advance. In carrying out the orders Lieutenant Colonel Duboce achieved at the head of a small force what was perhaps the most daring deed of the day. Dash- ing across the open in the face of a heavy fire, he and his men forced their way into the lower story of the church, and by setting it on fire compelled the enemy to fly and abandon their point of vantage. Again, when in the course of the action the Four- teenth Regulars were in danger of being cut off by a strong and overwhelming body of Filipinos, it was the men of the First California who went to their rescue and drove back the enemy. On still another ccasion Companies K and M of the regiment assisted | the regiments of Washington and Idaho in breaking the lines of the concealed foe by a charge which led them across open rice fields, where they were fully exposed to a heavy fire. Thus throughout the day the fortunes of the battle assigned to the Californians the hazardous duties of the posts of greatest danger. It was theirs to perform the most conspicuous feats of wvalor in a _little army full of brave men, all eager for distinction and ardent to uphold the credit of their States as well as the glory of the republic. California at the front has achieved anoltler honor in the history of she nation, and from the whole State will go words of greeting and praise for the gallant men and officers who won it by the noble performance of dangerous duty. Tof racing the year around is so marked and ex- 5 plicit, the crimes to which it has led—theft, em- -bezzlement, murder and suicide—so familiar, that to more than revert to them is superfluous. Therefore the opinion that racing should be restricted is general, the only exceptions being among people who fatten and batten on the racegoer—the tout, the vagrant with a doubtful tip, the “bookie” and the speculator. 1i these can secure legislative support their power is a thing to be dreaded. There has been-introduced by Senator Braunhart a bill directed against gambling, but particularly de- signed to limit the racing season to thirty days. It is so good a bill we take pleasure in commending it, embodying, as it does, many points which this paper kas set forth as essential. If racing is to be a stimulus to the breeding of fine horses there can be no objec- tion to it, but when it becomes a gambling game wherein the scheme is the fleecing of the ever- present sucker, it assumes a wholly different aspect, and is a thing of evil, with o redeeming quality. Racing in San Francisco is but the pretext for milk- ing the public. It possesses no element of sport. To sustain it requires many thousands of dollars daily, and almost all of this comes from people who in contributing it rob either themselves or their em- ployers, and in either case court disgrace. The pro- moters of racing wear purple and fine linen, because they can afford to do so, but the dupes who have acquired the habit of betting on these same races pay for. this display, and themselves wear rags. It is to be hoped that the Braunhart bill will be- come a law. The purpose of it is altogether worthy. It is designed to correct a shameful abuse, an abuse which is corrupting the youth of the community, swindling the mature, swallowing up the wages of men and women, giving no return. Such racing as is practiced here twelve months in a year is an actual crime. Since there can be no penalty, the only method is to check it, or proscribe it utterly. Better that the tracks should become grass-grown than that they should continue the scene of an uninterrupted confidence game, debauching morals and depleting pockets. LIMIT THE RACING. HE harm accomplished through the continuance Depositors in the looted San Jose bank are re- ported to feel angry. If this is the limit of the pen- alty to be dealt out to the looters it is well to be prepared for additional collapses. RS AT AR Aguinaldo’s patriotism is of so rare a brand that he knows too much to risk it on the firing line. Senator Shortridge is a man of ideas, but he sel- dom lets go of one of his collection. l IS THE RESPONSIBILITY ? WHERE N the day of the ratification of the Paris treaty O a statement was published to the effect that the votes of opposing Senators were secured by an assurance from the White House that the ad- ministration does not intend a colonial policy in the Philippines. Quite to the contrary of such a policy, it was declared to be the intention of the President to treat the Filipinos like the Cubans, holding them un- der a temporary protectorate, to aid them in the es- tablishment of an independent government, upon con- dition that this country is recouped its expenditures in their behalf. We find difficulty in believing this statement to be true. If such be the intention of the President its frank declaration any time within the last month | would have removed all opposition to the treaty, would have taken away friction at Manila and averted the bloody encounter of last Sunday. The whole world has been made aware of the as- piration of the Filipinos for independence. They have shown it with a spirit which commands respect. The women of Cavite asked to be armed to fight for it. Had they been assured of our support of that as- piration, instead of suspicion would have been confi- dence, and friendship would have appeared instead of friction. Granting that their attack on our lines was an act of folly, which must be punished, and that se- verely, the responsibility for it is not with the Sena- torial opponents of the Paris treaty, but rests wher- cver the purpose of this Government to aid their in- dependence was cherished in secret, instead of being frankly avowed. If this Washington statement be true some one has an account to settle over the bodies of our own dead and the carnage colored scene of the third battle of Manila. The country is so willing to follow the President that he can afford frankness with the people. ~The treaty has been ratified by the votes of anti-imperial- ists. Is the country to understand that Senator Mc- Enery's bloodless and colorless resolution of quali- fication is an expression of the purpose which secured the votes of Faulkner, Gray, Jones of Nevada, Lind- say, McEnery, McLaurin and Mason? If so, our opinion is that it is an inadequate expression, and will not satisfy the country. We are refusing to placate the Filipinos, and our own people are proceeding blindfolded and in the dark, apparently in the direc- tion of another trap set and baited with “manifest destiny.” 1f we are to merely assert a Philippine pro- tectorate, a final declaration of independence, and ask only repayment of our costs, there is a better way to such end than the sacrifice of more American lives, in the slaughter of more thousands of a people who offer their blood and bodies in the fear that they have been merely sold to a new master. If we are able to say, in good conscience, that we have not bought them, but their independence, from Spain, not arother shot need be fired, not another tear shed in the home of an American volunteer. | Why should not this assurance go forth as well as an order to crush those people? Let us beware of | the consequences to ourselves. If this mean con- quest and colonization, so be it, but let us not con- ceal from ourselves the fact that it will also mean the abandonment of every distinctive American policy. 1f it be permanent conquest, let the original copy of the Declaration of Independence which hangs in the State Department at Washington be no longer pro- | tected from decay. Let the parchment rot and the | signatures fade, for we will have destroyed the spirit of the instrument. Let there be also immediate ac- | ceptance of General Merritt's declaration that we have cutgrown the constitution, and it no longer deserves | consideration or respect, and let the Monroe doc- | trine, just risen to full glory in its last interpretation, be put away as‘'a childish vagary, inconsistent with } the imperial policy and manifest destiny of the na- | tion. HOW DEPOSITORS ARE ROBBED. INCE the Union Savings Bank of San Jose S has closed its doors, and hundreds are mourn- ing the hard-earned dollars they had given into the care of the institution, there has been afforded an opportunity for reflection. Why should such calamities be permitted? Is there nothing to safe- guard the people? Is the act of trusting in a bank simply the yielding to a confidence game? Surely | there is something out of the common when deposit- ors are swindled, possibly ruined. | While the officials of this bank were throwing money recklessly into schemes which promised no returns; while they were loaning without security, gathering the funds to do so by the most profligate discounts, Paris Kilburn, one of the Bank Commis- | sioners, was warming a chair in Republican head- | quarters, and nothing cared he for the fate of de- | positors. His duty, as he conceived it, although he | drew pay for another, was to throw his influence to the election of one Dan Burns to the Senate. The! headquarters of a great party was prostituted to the vses of Burns, and the influence of certain Republi- cans, among them Kilburn, was prostituted to the same end: There could be but one result. While Kilburn | warmed the chair the bank progressed toward col- | lapse, and when a bank fails it means suffering to many. All the affairs of this particular bank should | have been to Kilburn as an’open book, but he was | too busy to read. His ambition was set upon the | loftier scheme of sending this man Burns to the Sen- ate. He warmed the chair, the bank kept on its course toward destruction. In China the officials of that bank would now be headless. In more than one civilized country they ! would be on the way to penal servitude. In the | United States they do not seem disturbed, and the | commissioners who permitted their crime to develop | to the point of disaster display no sign of remorse. | The commission must be reformed. It was not de- signed to fatten the Kilburns of politics. Y T T SR T SLAVERY AND POLYGAMY. because of the attempted dislodgment of our forces at Manila does not affect the main question at issue. We are quite competent to main- tain the occupation we have gained, without any seri- ous disturbance of our balance, and at the same time discuss the deeper problems that are unaffected by temporary conditions. : The men who organized the Republican party and who, in 1860, secured the election of Abraham Lin- coln, designated slavery and polygamy as “the twin relics of barbarism.” E. D. Baker and Frederick P. Tracy in this State, with their splendid oratory, de- nounced these institutions as blots upon the fair chart of the constitution. The deathless invocation to freedom of Colonel Baker at the American Theater in San Francisco, in 1861, antidipated a result that the civil war imbedded in the constitution, with the cop- sent of the whole people North and South. Thus, one of the twins was presumptively buried. When Utah was admitted into the Union, it was supposed that Congressional legislation had destroyed the other. It THE existinjg necessity of thrashing the Filipinos is now proposed by the acquisition of the Philippines | cratic vote for the Senatorship, seems about as near to reincorporate both, either in a colonial dependency, imperially administered, or by a territorial annexation and the admission of the Filipinos to the ranks of American citizenship. 3 Both slavery and polygamy exist in the Philippines. What are we to do with them? If we govern the archipelago as an imperial colony, we must either tolerate and protect these institutions of barbarism or plunge into a bloody war, seven or eight thousand miles away from the soil where Americans are pro- duced, in which an army of a hundred thousand men would be a bagatelle. If we annex these fourteen hundred islands and give them a territorial organiza- tion, we must either abandon our principles or the war is without an alternative. Some of our expan- sionists, who have a “national policy,” are deep in the crusade against Roberts, the Utah Congressman, because he is believed to have a plurality of wives. What will they do with the nine or ten millions of Filipinos? Do they expect to reconcile the contra- dictory positions 6i freedom and monogamy on this continent with slave holding, slave driving and poly- gamy in Asia? Or do they desire the restoration of the two blots removed from the constitution at so great a cost, and that the present generation shall wit- ness either the obliteration of the Declaration of In- dependence, or Mohammedan and Pagan representa- tion in the Lower House of Congress? The cause of the expansionists is filled with inex- tricable dilemmas, and they are equally unadorned by the twin jewels of consistency and of Americanism. e o ——— THull bill, reaffirming the gold standard and providing that greenbacks redeemed in gold shall stay in the treasury until exchanged for gold will meet all the requirements of financial reform. Of this, however, there is very grave doubt. The country knows that gold is already the standard. The act of 1873 says that “the gold dollar, 25.8 grains in weight, 9oo parts fine, shall be the unit of value.” Of course the term “standard” is not employed, but that is because “unit” is more scientifically correct, 2nd it means the same thing. This being true, the only change introduced by the proposed bill is in retention of greenbacks, gold redeemed, until asked in exchange for gold. There are in existence $340,- 000,000 in greenbacks. To preserve the gold unit of value, when presented at the treasury they are re- deemed in gold, and then, according to existing law, they must be reissued—that is to say, they are immediately reprinted and paid out to meet the ex- penses of the Government. This device was provided in order to prevent contraction of the currency, and it is responsible for the ‘“endless chain” which has several times threatened the treasury with insolvency and nearly compelled a suspension of specie pay- ments. It will be seen that the effect of the Hull bill is to contraet the currency. It is entirely possible to withdraw gold from the treasury to the amount of the entire greenback issue of $340,000,000, and under the proposed act this would lock that sum up to stay out of circulation until released by an exchange for gold, something rather improbable to occur. This would be a contraction of the currency and drainage of the gold from the treasury at the same time. The report of the condition of the treasury on the FINANCIAL LEGISLATION. HE opinion is expressed that the passage of the At that date there was an available cash balance of $202,039,626, and the gold reserve was $228,740,075. Therefore the presentation of the outstanding green- backs would have taken the gold reserve all out. It will be seen, then, that all the new bill proposes is this change in handling the greenbacks, and it is gravely doubtful whether, standing alone, that change is at all desirable. It is the belief of all the sound money people that efficient reform requires the pro- gressive retirement -and cancellation of the whole greenback issue as rapidly as it can be replaced by a flexible and safe paper currency, issued under legal safeguards in addition to those already provided by the national bank law, and with redemption provi- sions that prevent it from menacing the treasury and imperiling the public credit. Such a system is free from the objections which lie against both the present law and the Hull bill. As framed by the Monetary Commission of the Indianapolis conference it has other features that are desirable from a financial and political standpoint. It will put banking facilities within reach of more of our people, who can then use their credit more economically than now. It will enlarge the opportunity for the use of personal credit, and will materially decrease the necessity for mortgages. The rat® of interest being the same, the man who is compelled to use his credit by mortgage is at a disadvantage, for he must pay for drawing, acknowledging and recording his mortgage, and also for an abstract of title. Bad business habits are inculcated by resort to mortgages. The money is usually taken on long time, and a farmer will spend the profits of many intervening good crops with no thought of putting by a sinking fund to bear at last bad crops or prices and concurrent maturity of his mortgage. With a system of banking which puts the loan fund of the country within as easy reach of the farmer as of the merchant and manufacturer, he will borrow less on short time and provide to pay it at maturity, and will have the use of his credit more { cheaply and in a way that enforces better business habits. i All this is a part of the financial reform required by sound money men, and it is far from being furnished in the Hull bill. e ———— Relative merits of regulars and volunteers at this stage are not such as to create a great difference be- tween them. Many of the regular regiments are made up of as raw material as the volunteers, and there has | not yet been an inclination on the part of either of them to dodge any duty which happened to come their way. R S Cheesman, who committed one murder in Oakland and tried to commit more, has escaped from the asylum. It is not possible to avoid the reflection that | jected to a post-mortem, this would never have hap- | pened. ¥ s e Of course the Grant men are against a caucus. So is everybody else who does not wish to see Mexican Dan go to the Senate. The Grant men may be weak in spots, but for the most part, at least, they are sane. There is no joy for the Harbor Commission in the report of the Senate committee. This document sets forth fairly well the shameful facts which The Call long ago exposed. 7 SR A £ People who conduct election contests for the sake | of the fees should be allowed to whistle for them, since other people who really work are obliged to whistle. Agoncillo complains that he has been ignored, when as a matter of fact this is one of the luckiest things that ever happened to him. Colonel James Smith, with a complimentary Demo- the goal as anybody else 31st ult. will give an idea of what this would mean. | | died after the original act had gone into if he had been hanged and the carcass of him sub- | INHERITANCE TAX IS AGAIN IN THE COURT The Stanford Estate Case Reopened. WITH SUPREME JUSTICES AN ABLE ARGUMENT BY AT- TORNEY GENERAL FORD. He Contends That the State Would Be Defrauded by an Unconsti- tutional Act of the Leg- islature. A case of great importance was argued yesterday before the Supreme Court in bank involving a matter of $60,000 to the school fund of the State. The subject un- der consideration was whether or not the legislative act of 1397 amending the act of 1893 exempling certain héirs from pay- ing the income tax on the estates of de- ceased persons is constitutional. The case in particular was that of the Stanford es- tate. The decision of this will operate™m a number of others involving large estates in various parts of the State. The propo- sition, briefly outlined, is this: In 1883 the Legislature imposed an inherit- ance tax of 5 per cent upon all inheritances, devises, legacles and bequests, excepting as to certain enumerated Classes of beneficlaries. Thereafter,/in the same year, Senator Stan- ford died,” leaving a will by which he dls- posed of a large estate to various beneficlaries, including certain - nieces and nephews, who were to recelve about §1,200,000, and the Leland Stanford Jr. University, an institution falling within the excepted ciauses as defincd in the amendatory act of 1S07. In 1887 the Legislature attempted to enlarge the excepted classes by adding thereto nieces and nephews residing in the State of California, and cer- taln institutions such as would include the Leland Stanford Jr. University. This i8 not the first time thet the same matter has been before the Supreme Court. After the will of the late Senator was admitted to probate the matter went to the higher court upon the constitu- tionality of the act, and not a few be- lieved that the amendment of 1897 was made with reference to the Stanford es- tate. The agpeal was decided last No- vember by the court in department ad- verse to the interests of the State. . F. Fitzgerald, then Attorney Generc al, asked that the case be reheard, as he had never been officially informed of the existence of the case and consequently the State had not an opportunity to be represented in court. The request was granted, but Mr. Fitzgerald golng‘ out of office the new Attorney General, Tirey L. Ford, took charge of the matter, which was heard yesterday. Dr. Taylor represented the resident | nephews and nieces, Cotton & Cotton the non-resident heirs, and Tirey L. Ford the State. The points presented by the attor- neys for the heirs were the same as ad- vanced at the former hearing, but those by the Attorney General were all new. Mr. Ford attacked the constitutionality of the amendment of 1897 by asking the question: ‘“Had the Legislature the power to thus enlarge the excepted classes so as to affect the estate of a decedent who effect but before the amendatory act was passed?” In his argument Mr. Ford said: The second section of the amendatory act is vold for the reason that it bears no relation to, nor Is the subject matter of it referred to in, the title of the amendatory act. The amendatory act {8 void for the reason that the Legislature thereby attempted to make a gift of a right that had theretofore accrued to the State. This right of which the Legislature attempted to make a gift was certainly a “thing of value' from whatever standpoint it may be viewed. If it bé considered a tax, then, by the very terms of the act of 's3, it became due and payable upon the death of the decedent, or, in other words, the State then became’ vested with the right to collect the tax in the due course or tne administra- tion, which right could not be deemed less than a “thing of value.” The § per cent re- tained belonged absolutely to the State and was_unquestionably a ‘“thing of value” which the Leglslature had no more right to give away than It would have to give away the capitol grounds at Sacramento or the money in the State treasury. The attempt to nephews residing cepted classes was clearly In conflict with the constitution of the United States and the uni- form line of decisions bearing upon the sub- ject. This is admitted, but the principle is misapplied by the opinion rendered In depart- ment. The Legislature attempted to relleve the nieces and nephews alone, which clearly could not be done. No attempt was made to extend such relief to non-resident nieces and nephews. TIf an attempt to impose a burden on non-residents must fall, an attempt to ex- tend rellef to residents must likewise fail I the attempted legislation must be declared v be include the in California niaces and in the ex- alid In_ the one Instance it must likewise declared invalid in the other. YOUNG PATRIOTS. The Valentine Holt Society Elects Officers for the Current Year. The third annual meeting of the Val- entine Holt Society of the Children of the American Revolution was held at the res- fdence of Mrs. H. C. Yeman, 711 Taylor street, when the following named officers were_elected for the current term: Mrs. A, Hubbard. president; Shirley . ‘Walker, vice president; Elsie M. Mooges, recording secretary: Helen A. Hallowell, corresponding secretary: Carmel M. O« tram, treasurer; Flora M. Walton, regis- trar: Ruth C. Mitchell, historian: Mary E. Stalev. custodian of scrap book: Liz- zle D. Painter. organist, and Howard E. Ruggles. color bearer. This soclety was most enthusiastic in its’ work for the Red Cross, appropriat- ing quite a sum frilm Its treasury, besides private subscriptions from individual members. Miss TIsabel Dennison, one of the members, was the first child to con- tribute to the Red Cross treasury on the Pacific Coast. Another member, Leavitt Baker, with two other lads arranged a gulnea-pig show which netted $50 for the same object. The society has one of its members at Manila. Louis Dorr. son of Dr. L. L. Dorr, ex-Coroner of this city. There is a strong patriotic enthusiasm in the soclety, increasing as the societv grows in age. ‘It has taken for its special work for the current vear the ralsing of money to be confributed to a fund be. ing raised for the erection of a monument in New York to the memories of the mar- tyrs of the prison ships of the war of the revolution, a movement which is national in its character.| - e———— A CHINESE HOSPITAL. One Will Be Established in the Ori- ental Quarter. A movement to establish a hospital Chiratown for the care of the indigent sick of that quarter, which has been on foot for some time past, was considera- bly acdvanced at a meeting of those inter- ested in the project held yesterday after- noon.at the Chinese Consulate. Dr. Fryer, professor of Oriental languages and liter- ature of the University of California. pre- gde . Consul General Ho You, E. P. ining, manager of Market street rallway system; J. J. Valentine, Mr. Harris of the Hongkong Banking Company and other prominent gentlemen were present. Tt is the intention of those Interested in the project to establish the hospital im- mediately at 920 Washington street. The hospital will be uuo%orted by subserip- equests. -| tions, .donations and . J. J. Valentine. Ho_You, E. P. Vining, Dr. Atkebury.DDr. ver, Mrs. P. Brown, Mrs. Dr. er, Mrs. Masters, Mrs. Dr. Charlotte Brown. Mrs. Folger, dard Clarie Mrs. Hudleston and Mrs. Go were appointed a committee fo take charge of the affairs of the hospital tem- porarily. Father Doherty on Fraternity. An interesting and instructive lecture will be delivered by Rev. Francis B. Do- herty next Friday evening at Metro- litan Temple on the subject of “Fra- ernity.” From the interesting nature of t-he :ubject al:«lalsn. udfl““ 'rfh?: ‘the loctgn re In unug lemand. lecture Livered w‘h Paulist & week or so u:\; in this city on the subject of ‘“Manila was| glvenybefnre a large and apprecia- tive audience last Monday evening in Elite Hall, Ogkland. The same address will be delivered at Santa Cruz next Thursday evening. At the close of the lecture on “Fraternity’” Father Doherty will leave for New York, where he will deliver a course of Lenten lectures before the Catholic Club. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Albert Goodman of New York is at the Palace. H. H. Seaton, an Arbuckle merchant, is staying at the Grand. Ben E. Ward of Los Angeles is regis- tered at the California. Dr. G. C. Simmons and wife of Sacra- mento are at the Occidental. B. Galloway, a cattleman of Walnut Creek, is at the Russ. Theodore B. Wilcox and wife, of Port- land, are guests at the Palace. J. Crocker, a prominent merchant of San Lufs Obispo, is at the Californiz. D. C. McDonald and T. A. Matthews, Bureka merchants, ‘are at the Grand. ‘William N. Runyon, the Courtland vine- yardist, is one of the arrivals at the Lick. ‘Willlam Muir, of Sacramento, who is largely interested in dredging, is at the Russ. M. Foray, of Denver, has taken apart- ments at the Lick with his wife and child J. Sloat Fassett, a prominent politician of New York, is registered at the Palace from Elmira, N. Y. J. P. Le Count, of this city, has taken apartments at the Palace for the remain- der of the winter. Juan J. de la Guerra, who owns large walnut groves-in Yorba, Orange County, is located at the Occidental. E. H. Winship, who supplies the electric power for the city of Napa, i{s at the Grand, accompanied by his wife. Humboldt Gates, a mining man of Daw- son; R. C. Sargent, a wealthy land own- er of Stockton, are among those regis- tered at the Russ. Mrs. Draper and son, of Denver, are at the Occldental, en route to Manila, where they will join Captain Draper, of the First Colorado Volunteers. George® Myers, a Fresno tobacconist: Judge A. Hewel, of Modesto, and N. T. Pickle, who runs stage lines in Sonora, are registered at the Lick. ‘Willlam F. Kilgrove, chairman of the legislative committee of the First Church of Christ of this city, has gone to Sacra- mento to look after legislation affecting the church. J. N. Phelps Stokes and wife, of New York, who have been visiting in Los An- geles and Santa Barbara, are at the Pal- ace, and will return home in about two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Merrill and child and Miss Charlotte Ives, who have been on an extended visit to the Orient, have arrived at the Occidental, and will short- ly return East ¢o their home. Colonel C. Reichembach of the London and Liverpool Liquor and Cigar Company arrived from Dawson on the steamer Walla Walla. The colonel is one of the most prominent business men in Dawson. He will remain in the city about two months, when he will journey back aguin to the frozen north. Colonel Reichenbach is at present stopping at his residence, 1438 Geary street. Professor A. 8. Knapp, who recently re- turned from the Philippines, where he has been investigating the agricultural possibilities of the islands for the United States Government, will leave for Wash- ington, D. C., to-day, to report to his su- perior, Secretary Wilson, of the Depart- ment of Agriculture. He will be accom- panied by Lieutenant Colonel Jones, of the Idaho Volunteers, who is on his way home. —_———— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—Miss Virginia Drexel of San Francisco is at the Im- perial. —_————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. GREATER NEW YORK—Anambulus, French Camp, Cal. Greater New York is not within one county of the State of New Yor! SILVER COINED—Anambulus, French Camp, Cal. The United States Govern- ment coined silver coins between the years 1873 and 1890, SENATOR STEWART-J. F. B., City. Senator W. M. Stewart of Nevada was elected in 1887 to succeed James G. Fair, took his seat March 4, 1893, was re-elected in 1893 and again’this year. FRUIT PACKERS-I. J. J., City. There are no dry fruit packers in or near Hay- wards or San Leandro. There are a num- ber of orchardists in that vicinity who pack fresh fruit for the markets and im- mediate sale. REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE—R. W. L., Santa Cruz, Cal. For information as to the means to enter the revénue cutter service of the United States write to the Treasury Deparment, Washington, D. C. The service is under civil service rules. NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIPTION—C. A. ‘W., Chiles, Cal. If a person is a subscrib- er to a newspaper and he fails to notify the publisher at the time his subscription ends that he wishes to discontinue, and the party continues to receive the paper, he is liable to the publisher. GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK-A. 8., San Jose de Garcia, Sinaloa, Mex. At no time since 1885 has any Governor of the State of New York carried the election by so small a plurality as it was carried by Roosevelt last November. His plurality was 17,786. In 1885 Hill carried (Ee State by a plurality of only 11,134. BARBER POLES—A Subscriber, City. All barbers do not have ‘“red, white and blue poles outside of their shops.” Some have the three colors, others have red and white striped poles and some have gold and black. e pole is an advertise- ment of the business and has its origin from the times when barbers cupped and bled patlents as well as shaved customers. ‘When patients were cupped or bled they were made to hold on to a staff, and after the cu;(uiplng or bleeding the wound was wrapped with a long bandage. The band- age and staff were placed outside of shops to show that the occupant cupped and bled patients. The poie with wglte and red stripes took the place of the pole and bandage. AS TO KANSAS CITY.—A correspond- ent from Oakland, formerly a resident of Kansas City, Mo., writes as follows in re- lation to the impression that there is a (l:{‘unm City only in Missouri: “Kansas ty was originally located between th Kaw River and the State line of Missouri: on the opposite side, but up the valley were towns called Wyandotte and Cy- ress; all three ih Wyandotte County. In ater years a consolidation was_effected, and the name of Kansas C.ty. Kan., was adopted. In fllns{frum Kansas City, Mo., to Kansas City, Kan., the two cities are divided by a street named State Line. A stranger,” unless Informed of the fact pass from Kansas City, Mo., int¢ Kansas City, Kan,, under the impréssion :};:tage r;::‘ in the o::es‘ et'ktlv' 'Fhe two closely connec 2 practically one city.” i LEAVING CARDS—Letter Writer and Calls, Virginia City, Nev. In the matter of making calls and leaving cards if it is to a family the visitor ‘on the first visit leaves a card for each member of the ts.mifi. If at subsequent visits a card should be left only for any absent mem- ber. If in the matter of a guest in the family of an acquaintance or friend, the vicitor should send cards by the servant one to the }ady of the house and another to the guest. “Should thé hostess herself come to the door the visitor need, of gfourse, not present a card, but after a few moments' conversation ask to see hep friend. It she chdnncen to be out the vis- itor leaves a card for her, and if all are gone out leaves separate cards for each of those called upon, always including the lady of the house, or the visitor may turn down the upper right hand corner, which thus includes the If there are two and if there is no desire to leave so man: \cards the whole of the right side is turne: down. A gentleman never turns down the corner of his cards. THE HALL OF JUSTICE WILL BE FINISHED Supervisors to Press the Work. / NEW BIDS FOR FURNISHING COMMITITEE SUSTAINS THE MAYOR’'S VETO. The Building for the Police Should Be Ready for Occupancy on the First Day of . August. The Building Committee of the Board of Supervisors held a special meeting yes- terday. to consider matters relating to the Hall of Justice. After extended discus- sion, it was decided to sustain the May- or's veto of the contract granted the George H. Fuller Desk Company for the $80,000 worth of furniture. New bids will be advertised for at once, and if all prom- jses are .made good the building will be furnished ready for occupancy on Au- gust 1. The committee announced that it was ready to provide every accommodation re- quired by the Judges in the Criminal De- partment of the Buperior Court. They will be asked to specify their needs, which will be attended to. The Judges have taken the stand that the quarters as- signed them are too small and lack con- veniences necessary for the proper con- duct of their courts. The Supervisors say that as all city roperty is under their jurisdiction, the Pidzes nave no option, but must aceept the quarters assigned them. The Judges are not above the law, and must abide by its_provisions. The Building Committee heard a num- ber of interested parties at its session yesterday. George H. Fuller, the success- ful bidder, explained the matter of the contract from his point of view, urging the committee to stand by the award to him. He said his bid was $6,000 below the next bid, and that the city could never obtain better terms. Attorney Shadbourne, representing the North End Imnrovement Club, devoted his energles to assailing the stand taken by the Superior Judges in decnmnfi to accept the quarters prepared for the: o contended that the board had author- ity over. the Hall of Justice, and jurisdic- tion over the courts. That they were not a law_unto themselves. O. F. von Rhein followed in the san strain, scoring the contractors for the de- lay. Contractor Bateman in reply said great in{ustlce had been done him, as th chief delay was caused by the change ¢ plans fi time to time. New bids will be advertised for at once, and ample time will be given all bidders. ODD FELLOWS' JUBILEE. The Executive Committee Commences the Work of Preparation for the Grand Celebration. At a meeting of the executive commit- tee of the Odd Fellows' Golden Junilze held on Monday night a number of the niembers present discussed the various phases of the proposed celebration, and it was decided that there shall be no as- sessments on the lodges for the raising of funds, but that the money contributad for thet purpose shall be voluntary. The finance committee was named and composed of the lowing: W. T. Galloway of California Lodge, chair- man; Mrs. Mary E. Donoho, secretary of the assembly of Rebekahs; John Thomp- son of Paclfic Lodge, F. ‘Whitney of Enterprise Lodge and George A. Cash of Mission Peaks Lodge. 1t was also decided that the committea on subscriptions shall be composed of one member from each lodge and encamp- ment. The committee, as far as nanied i3 a- follows: John A. Fost>r, chairman; C. George of Golden Gate Encamp- ment, J. G. Mysell of Harmony Lodge, B. F. Wellington of Yerba Buena Lodye, Thomas P. Woodward of Bay City Lodge, L. L. Remy of Franco-American Lodge, E. A. Herman of Fidelity Lodge, C 3\[ S‘}'mnnds of Presidio Lodge and H. C. ‘Wycoft of Berkeley Lodge. The chairmen of the various subcom- mittees were requested to furnish an esti- mate of the probable amount of expense that each committee shall incur in the celebration. —————— INJURED BY BOILING SODA. Otto Hennig Meets With a Serious Accident in the San Francisco Chemical Works. Otto Hennig of 2202 Powell street met with a painful accident yesterday that will necessitate his remaining in the Ger- man Hospital for some weeks to come. He is employed in the San Francisco Chemical Works on Dupont and Bay streets. He was standing on the elevator, ‘when he stumbled and, in order to save himself from falling in, jumped into a tank of boiling soda. Both feet and legs were badly burned and he was suffering excruciating pain when taken to the Har- bor Hospital. Drs. Fitzgibbon and Swee- ney did everything possible for him. Hans Petersen Anderson Stohr was treated at the Harbor Hospital yesterday for a lacerated wound of the scalp. He and Oscar Johnson had a row and John- son tried to brain him with a gobblestone. Johnson was locked up in the Central Po- lice Station on a ‘charge of assault to murder. 2 The barkentine Omega, which left here on January 22 for the Columbia River to load lumber for South Africa, was spoken yesterday off Grays Harbor with her fore- topgallant mast gone. e e In the Divorce Courts. | Emma Hadley has been granted a di- vorce from Herbert Hadley cn the ground of desertion. Mary Murphy was granted a divorce from John J. Murphy yesterday on_ the ground of extreme cruel Suits for divorce have been filed by Arcadia_Lausten a%mst Anton’ Lausten, for ‘cruelty; Minnle E. Carne against John Carne, for infidelity: Matilda Strickland against Hiram Strickland, for failure to rovide, and Gertrude I. Graham against ederick W. Graham, for cruelty. is Marcus Levy Is Broke. Marcus Levy, salesman, residence San Francisco, yesterday filed in the United States District Court a petition in insolv- ency. His liabilities are $38778 and he has no assets. ‘All the creditors are New York firms. The debts were contracted in 1888 by Morris Levy, who has since died. Morris was the partner of Marcus, —_——— Cal. glace fruit 50c per b at Townsends.® ———— Speclal information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ ————————— Civil Service Postal Examination. No applications for the April civil serv- ice examination for postal clerks and car- riers will be accepted after March Ist. Blank forms of application may be had from the secretary at the main postofiice. —— e “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty years by milliors of mothers for their children while Teéthing with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Collc, reg- ulatés the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or Other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 2%c a bottle —_——— HOTEL DEL CORONADO—Take advantage of the round-trip tickets. Now only $0 by steamship, Including fifteen days' board \ hotel; longer stay, $8 per day. Apply at ¢ New Montgomery stréet, San Francisco,