The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 9, 1899, Page 6

H E SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9 1899 SENATE BILL 386. MONG what may be termed the retaliatory one THURSDAY.. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propretor. ress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. - PUBLICATION OFFICE .Market and Third Sts:, S. F. Telephone \ain 1868. CDITORIAL ROOMS.. Telephone Main 1874 DELIVERED EY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Eirgle Coples. 5 cents Terms by Mall, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (Including Sunday Call), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call). 6 month: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 3 months. CALL—Dy Single Month Y CALL one year KLY CALIL, one year. . All_postmasters are authorized to recelve subscriptions. Bample coples will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE... ...903 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE ..Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—52T Montgomery street, corner Clay, cpen until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clo: 621 NcAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:3¢ o'clock. 1941 Mission street, opzn untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock.. 2518 Misslon street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh cpen until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open )30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana streets, open until 9 o'clock. street, ‘The School for “Why Smith 1 Vall Recltal this evening. Lady of Lions.” Ellis streets, Specialties. Six-Day Cycle Race, Commencing Mon- FUNDS FOR THE EXPOSITION. ich a e com ITH a commendable promptness and with an \V‘ wl irs well. for the future, the ttee in charge of the proposed Pacific Exposition has set about the preliminary work of provid f 1e undertaking. Appropriations are expected from the city, the State and the nation, it is to cbtain these the efforts of the committee ds for are now directed. At the meeting on Wednesday it was decided to ,000, and from the State and the om the 1 each $500,000. n appointed to draft an appropriation bill for sion to the Legislature and to visit Sacramento rge its pas The active work of preparation ittually begun, and upon the results to therefore be attained 2 yrise will depend. ¢ amount asked of the State is moderate when the scope and the benefits of the enterprise are taken into consideration. It will be remembered the State 1ade an appropriation of $350,000 for a display at the Worl ir in Chicago and has never had occasion to regret the expenditure. That money was sent out of the State. The sum now applied for will be ex- pended within the State. The display made at Chicago attracted people to California only indirectly. The dis- play to be made in San Francisco will attract people frota all parts of the world directly to California, where they will perceive not only the products of the of her people, but the marvelous resources mdus of the State and the opportunities afforded by all sec- tions to persons who are seeking homes or profitable' investments for capital. Little argument will be needed to convince intelli- gent progressive members of the Legislature of the. merits of the proposed exposition and the advis- of making a liberal appropriation for it. In a million been asked it would have been priate $ vn her industrial and and create a wide demand for all the products of her labor. 00,000 for an undertaking which will make commercial possibilities knov Moreover, an appropriation of the amount re- ill assure the enterprise and thus strengthen the claim upon the General Government for an equal nount. From whatever point of view considered, subject is one deserving favorable and prompt n on the part of the legislators, so that the great may be pushed vigorously forward without PATERNALISM GONE MAD. MONG the numerous paternal measures which have been introduced into the present Legis- lature with a view to regulating and control- A ling the customs of the people and preserving and up- holding their interests, none is quite so ridiculous as a bill which passed the Assembly the other day by the decisive vote of 45 to 20. This measure provides for the regulation and control of the business - af horse-shoeing in California, and among other things it establishes a Board of Horseshoe Examiners and confers upon them authority to certify all men who in the blacksmithing business attempt to shoe horses. We have heard of boards to examine dentists, doctors, engineers, druggists, etc., but never before have we heard of the State establishing a board to pass upon the qualifications of horseshoers. business of horse-shoeing of course is very impor- * tant, but we venture to say that the annals of legisla- tion will be searched in vain for an instance in which a State has actually interfered with the feet of its | beasts of burden. If a board of examiners for the examination of horseshoers is to bc established, a large number of cther boards designed to pass upon the qualifications of other artisanis will follow as a matter of course: For instance, we shall have boards to examine jour- nalists, stenographers, printers, bakers, street car conductors, blacksmiths, carpenters, newshoy;s, real estate agents and the followers of other vocations who are now left to prescribe their own qualifications. Undoubtedly large numbers of journalists, printers, bakers and newsboys are incompetent, and undoubt- edly a board to issue certificates to them would serve - the excellent purpose of shutting out of those occu- pations men and boys who have no business to be in them From this prospect to that in which every man who -works at anything will have to hold a State certificate or join the grand army of tramps it is but a step. If paternalism is to continue on these lines there will te but one way out of the difficulty, and that is to place everybody upon the State payroll and have the work of the State done by Chinamen. We know large rumbers of people who would rejoice to see things reduced to such an agreeable basi: —— Now the Filipinos declare they were not prepared for hostilities, and there seems no reason for doubt- ing this. However, they thought they were all ready. i .FEBRUARY 9, 1899 =1 ......2IT to 221 Stevenson Street | A special committee of seven | Sacramento much of the success of the | uch. The State can well afford to appro- | The | fl measures before the Legislature is the proposed by Senator Ashe to repeal the statute of 1872, concerning actions for libel and slander. The statute to be repealed requires that the plaintiff in such actions shall put up a bond in the | sum of $300 precedent to the commencement of the | action. The statute was originally passed to prevent the | bringing of merely wanton suits against newspapers, with intent to only submit them to the costs of a suit. no matter what might be the issue of a trial. The statute of 1872 -is not required at all for the protection or restraint of the large city newspapers. They are equipped with legal advice and the means of defense, and recovery of their costs by suit on the plaintiff’s bond is a matter of minor importance. The | real protection afforded by the law is for the benefit of the country press. As the law of libel stands, and as it is interpreted by the courts, a newspaper fre- quently commits inadvertent libel, and a country paper may be constantly subject to suit for. damages. Even if a retraction is made, suit may be brought and the paper compelled to make a costly defense, and without this bond will have no recovery of the sums paid out for jury fees, reporters’ costs and other | expenses, even if it win. With the statute of 1872 nullified, nine-tenths of the country papers of California can be bankrupted | before the next Legislature meets. | We deprecate and thoroughly despise the license of the press, taken advantage of too frequently for the good name of journalism. But the great majority of the newspapers render a distinct public service and enlighten the community without corrupting public opinion. When purely retaliatory laws are passed this majority must suffer with the rest, and the final effect will be to extend and multiply the number of noxious journals, since men of credit and standing will find too much peril in following a business unprotected by | any law against vexatious suits. In every community | | there are men who practice at the law by methods | which cause them to seek just such suits as will be | promoted when this bill removes from the plaintiff | | alt financial responsibility, and the result will merely } encourage litigation and incumber court dockets with | causes that delay other and more legitimate busi- | ness. | The law will not, by removing a legitimate protec- tion fror legitimate journalism, in any way extend protection to any one against illegitimate journalism. The fact is that no justifiable suit for a newspaper ibel was ever prevented by the of the| statute of 1872. Its only effect has been to sum)rcss] unjustifiable suits and make it possible for a decent | man, with property and credit, to publish a news- | paper in this State. We feel sure that when the country press is made aware of the proposition to expose it to extinction | as legitimate enterprise, and leave it only an illegiti- | mate and discreditable survival, it will unite in a pro- test against the Ashe bill. A glance at the country press discloses in nearly | | every paper a system of news correspondence from | remote parts of the county in which a paper is pub- | lished. A lawyer can take any issue of such a paper | and find in it half a dozen instances of technical libel, upon which a suit may be founded. Statements inno- { cent in themselves, or intended as mere pleasantries, | or a mistaken announcement of a birth, death or mar- ‘t riage, a loss or an acquisition of property, is the basis | of a libel suit. True, the paper may always win in such | a suit, but its costs, not being recoverable on a | plaintiff's bond, may in one year exhaust its property | resources and destroy, it. The Ashe bill should be entitled, “A bill for an act to make it impossible for a responsible man to pub- lish a country newspaper in California.” P —— | For having beaten his infant child into insen- | sibility, it being his fourth offense, a man has just been sentenced to six months in jail, which is all right as far as it goes. It does not go far enough by forty-nine years and a half. The man really deserves 3 to be lashed to death, but unhappily such a course | must be reckoned impracticable. \/\/ Legislature it is difficult to extirpate it. Some one has wittily said that mortgages and weeds are the two hardest things to get off a ranch, but they are easily eradicated compared with an idea which has become deeply imbedded in the Legislative Mind. Indeed, we often have had occasion to observe that | no matter how great the obstacles to be overcome, nor | how discouraging the prospect, the Legislative Mind | recurs with unfailing regularity to its pet jobs, al- | ways with a determiration to put them through. | Ever since the adoption of the constitution in 1879 | the Legislature has been dissatisfied with the provi- | sions which regulate its business. Scarcely a session has adjourned without a proposition to amend of | some kind being submitted to the people. At first an attempt was made to increase the pay of.the mem- bers; then to lengthen the sessions; then to enlarge the perquisites. But finally the Legislative Mind settled down to splitting the sessions into two parts, and for about six years now the members have been | struggling to get some sort of an amendment adopted | which will put into force this peculiar idea. | At the last election an amendment was submitted i‘ providing that the Legislature should meet biennially | as usual and sit for twenty-five days, during which period bills might be introduced. Then an adjourn- ment was to be taken for thirty days, when the ses- sion might be resumed, but no bills introduced. The idea was to give the members a vacation of thirty days during which they could organize to jam through the jobs agreed upon by the bosses. But the | promoter of the scheme could not resist the tempta- tion to drag in a provision extending the sessions. | He placed the pay limit at seventy-five instead of sixty days. The amendment was voted down by the people, as have been all others devoted to the same subject, by | an overwhelming majority. But this defeat—the last of a dozen—has not quieted the Legislative Mind. The other day Assemblyman Jilson introduced the same amendment with the pay limit fixed at sixty days, as at present. Evidently Mr. Jilson thinks the length- ened sessions defeated the proposition at the late | election. Evidently he thinks the split session idea will go if only it can be divorced from the old job of getting more pay for the members. In this, however, he is mistaken. The history of constitutional amendments since 1879 demonstrates conclusively that the people will adopt nothing chang- ing the present legislative system. They have the Legislature just exactly where they want it, and they are patiently waiting for the Supreme Court to strip it of the little power which it still possesses. The ! sooner Mr. Jilson drops the matter, therefore, the hetter. The people will vote down any and all propo- sitions upon the subject. The fact that the Legisla- ture is constantly complaining of its constitutional existence 3 A SETTLED PROPOSITION. 1 HEN an idea thoroughly takes root in a PUBLIC OPINION AND IMPERIALISM. HEN, as a mighty force in modern times, Mr. Webster recognized “the public opinion W'oi the civilized world,” he referred to that settled public opinion which is the product of reason applied to fact by the educated human mind. It is now' three-quarters of a century since the indepen= dence of Greece was accomplished, and, notwithstand- ing frauds and failures that have stained and .check- ered national life, that force has.increased in breadth and intensity until it has become a prevailing in- fiuence that neither despotism nor freedom can suc- cessfully defy. It has modified imperialism in Europe. It has substantially. dedicated the North and -South American continents, even including the Dominion of Canada, to republicanism. It has created and main- tzined the republic of France. It has forced Austria, . Italy, Germany and Russia into recognition of the common people. It has stripped Spain of her pos- sessions, one by one, until, isolated and tumultuous, she is the sole representative in the civilized world of the expiring throes of medievalism. Armies and navies, scientifically organized and disciplined, have been proximate instrumentalities through which the national transformations and ex- tensions of the nineteenth century have been largely effected. Immigration, commerce, trade, steam, elec- tricity, the great inventions and developments of man, have been powerful agencies in the irresistible march of civilization. But penetrating, and in the ultimate analysis controlling thém all, the motor of progress has been and is the public opinion of the civilized world. ; In the United States settled public opinion has been the victor in every vital national controversy. It struck the keynote for humanity in the Declaration of Independence. It hardened the thirteen colonies, Lot and palpitating from the Revolutionary War, into autonomous States and consolidated them into a con- stitutional union. It destroyed the slave trade. It extirpated slavery. It swept into the sepulcher of dead wrongs the last denial of pe. gnal rights and of equality before the law. It insured every citizen his free soul and his free mind, restrained only for the common good, and with his own consent. It made nationality a fact, ingpired by a living and eternal sentiment. And all these unequaled achievements it symbolized in our flag, waving from ocean to ocean over forty-five States and a cemented Caucasian Union. 1t is this American public opinion, radiant with past conquests and meeting new issues with confidence and with judgment, emanating from inteligence, from education and from principle, that will interpret the treaty of Paris and settle the questions of imperialism and of Asiatic annexation. Slowly forming, slowly rising, slowly spreading, it will not be diverted into revolutionary channels by falsehood, by sophistry or by treason. It will not be seducéd by the dazzle of a Roman dream or the splendor of a British example. It will hold to.the model of the republic. It will not substitute Confucius, the Koran, or the vile theories of paganism for the American charter and for the elegy of Washington, which was the birthright of a nation. It will teach—it has taught—the Filipinos that our flag is sacred alike at the seat of government and in Manila, but it will not clasp them in the embrace of American citizenship nor place the foot of American sovereignty in their racial degradation and their sweltering barbarism. It will search Asiatic seas and the Asiatic continent and islands wherever commerce offers reciprocal advantages. It will diffuse truth and morality wherever ignorance solicits light and suffer- ing pleads for relief. But it will remain the Américan republic, with its constitution unimpaired, multiplying | its own population, enriched by nourishing blood, gathering wealth from its own resources and from the involuntary contributions oi other lands, and execut- ing for the world the solemn trust that can never be impaired until liberty itself is crucified. WHERE LEGISLATION IS NEEDED.E ROM the report made by the Senate investigat- I:ing committee on the construction of the ferry depot it appears the Harbor Commissioners were guilty of gross wrongs in the management of the work, but are not liable to any punishment, nor can the money they wasted be recovered by the State. The report points out that the Commissioners, in- stead of constructing the entire building out of the $600,000 provided for that purpose, used $349,000 out of the harbor improvement fund for the construction of the foundation; that after letting contracts for the erection of the building on that substructure for $545,000 they admitted so many changes in the work called for in the original specifications as to increase the cost by upward of $145,000; that by reason of these changes the State has suffered a heavy loss. The committee does not make a close estimate of the loss, and by way of explanation for not doing so says: “We leave this wide margin because the com- mittee did not consider it to be its duty to trace these figures down to a mathematical certainty, and we could not see how any recovery can be had, or anybody punished, in the premises.” The Call went over this subject some time ago and made an exposure of many of the greater wrongs and frauds committed in the construction of the depot. The full extent of the waste of money of course can never be known. The Senate committee virtually confirms all that was published by The Call at that time. In fact, the report of the committee expressly states: “This commission seems to have entirely, during the last years, ignored the law where it suited its convenience to do so.” Here is certainly a complete showing of gross mal- feasance in office under circumstances which compel intelligent and impartial men to suspect corruption and dishonesty. Yet, with all the facts made public by the investigations in The' Call, with all the evi- dence obtained by the official examination of the Senate committee, the lame and impotent conclu- sion is that nothing can be done to vindicate justice by either civil or criminal processes, by recovering the wasted money for the State, or by inflicting a wholesome penalty upon the offenders. Sucli being the condition of affairs, it is clear there is needed.in our Penal Code some provision for the punishment of officials who take it upon themselves to ignore the laws where it suits their convenience. One such lesson as we have had in this case should be enough for any commonwealth. The Legislature should not fail to profit by what has been taught. There should be promptly enacted some statute which wiil give the State a resource by which to do justice if ever another set of officials wastes her money and violates her laws. When the Evening Bulletin prints as telegraphic news a story clipped from a New York paper, neces- sarily several days old, it ought to eliminate the illus- trations. Pictures do not come by wire, and the pre- tense that they do tends to strain human faith. The man Nolan, who is trying to send his own son to prison, seems to be in need of condign treatment situation is enough for the people. They will see that ‘the complaints continue l of kicking him. himself. It is a pity the son is not equal to the task i tounding. signation was accepted. ing. signed. retires from the contest. they must stick to him. p=3=gagagegugegagagagaPugagegegagadatatagaug PR R LT 08 X0 30 308 306 06 308 30K XK 0100 0 0 6 0 11 0 E 0 MR R RN SAVING THE STATE'S HONOR. After accepting the report of the committee ing that Howard E. Wright had accepted bribe the Assembly defeated a resolution expelling hi and allowed him to go without even a censure. It is true Mr. Wright resigned as S But it is submitted that i conduct of Wright as Speaker with which the Assem Mr. Burnett made this point very strong. gemblyman Wright they had to deal; but, even Supj pose him was considered punishment enough bribe, there is nothing in the records to show In fact, he was not Speaker when the vote Bribe taking, therefore, is not an o punishable by the California Assembly. How awfully funny some things can app heen voting for Grant for the Senate have co: the honor of the State they will continue to vo ‘When a committee repor had been guilty of bribery not one of the twenty-seven could ralse his voice agdinst the fact, and yet to save the Mark Twain never concel with more genuine wit-in it.—Colusa Sun. Qfififififit{fififififi)fifififlfififififififl)} fag=%23 of investigation, find- money from Grant, m from that body, It is perfectly as- peaker and that re- t was not the bly was deal- It was with As- pose that to de- for the mere taking of a that he was deposed. was taken—he had re- ffense considered at all ear. The men who have ncluded that to save te for him until Burns ted that Grant honor of the State ived a situation HDOROTVGRGV TSN OGIVGOO LGS SN REAL ESTATE CHARACTERIZED BY DULLNESS Little Improvement in the Market. CONDITION IN THE COUNTRY CITY SALES FEW AND DECIDED- LY SMALL IN VALUE. A Complete Review of the Records, New Building Contracts, Re- cent Sales and General ‘Notes. There was little business of any value transacted in the realty market during | the past week. Sales were few and of mi- nor importance. It is expected, however, that during the coming week a decided change for the better will take place. Al- ready many transactions have been out- lined and negotlations are expeeted to be completed within the next few days. Notwithstanding the general improve- ment in city property after months of continual business stagnation, progression and improvement in the country seems to have outdistanced entirely ‘that of the city. Outside sales are more frequent and of greater value proportionately. Building operations in the local market are anything but extensive, there being few contracts let and these of small value. REVIEW OF THE RECORDS. During the week there were forty mort- gages and trust deeds recorded, amount- ing to an aggregate value of $275,8%. For the same perlod forty-eight releases and reconveyances passed to record in the to- tal sum of $181,724. The principal mortgages and trust deeds as recorded are as follows: By the Mutual Sav- ings Bank to Louis Metzger, $17,600 on prop- erty In one hundred blocic 346, situated on the southwesterly line of First street, eleven feet northwest of Mission, northwest 2 by south- west 156:6; by the Mutual Savings Bank to James B. Duggan, $12,000 for one year at 8l per cent on property in Western Addition blocke 318 and 9, situated respectively on. the southerly line of Pacific avenue 137:6 feet West of Webster, west 65 by south 127:8%, and the southerly line of O'Farrell street 110 feet east of Polk, east 27:6 by south 137:8; by_the Mutual Savings Bank to E. and Sarah I Ellery, 39500 for one year at 61 per cent, on property in one hundred block 364, situated on the norther- 1y line of Folsom street, 375 feet east of Fourth by E. B. Pond and H. C. Campbell, truste of thé San Francisco Savings Union, to James Denman, $125,000 on property in one hundred blocks 325, 326 and 344, two pleces in Western Addition block 17 and one piece in. Western Addition block 50, situated respectively on the northeasterly line of Mason street 183:4 feet southeast of Union, the southeasterly line of Howard street 91:8 feet northeast of Main, the westerly corner of Fremont and Bryant streets, the northeast corner of Sacramento and Polk streets, the northeast corner of Clay and Polk streets and the northwest corner of Wash- ington and Polk streets; by the Hibernia Sav- ings and Loan Soclety to the German Evangeli- cal Lutheran St. Paul's Congregation, $32,000 for one year at 81 per cent on property in Western “Addition block 134, situated on the southeast corner of Gough and Eddy streets, east 137:6 by south 120. . The principal releases and reconveyances assed to record as follows: From Fronfe Schmiedell, Antoinette W. Howard, by E. G. Schmiedell, attorney, and E. G. Schmiedell to Evelyn A. and Irwin C. Stump, $15000 on property in Western Addition block 434, situated on the northerly lne of McAllister street 100 feet east of Scott street, east 100 by north 187:6, west 99, south 37:8, west 1, south 100; from the Hibernia Savings and Loan Society to Joseph L. Moody, $65,000 on property in one hundred block -38, ‘situated on the southerly corner of Bluxome and Fifth streets. NEW BUILDING CONTRACTS. Southwest corner of Pacific and Jones streets, west 52:4 by south 60—All work except drain. ing, plumbing, gas fitting, etc., for a three- story frame building; owner, H. W. Holle; architects, Martens & Coffey; contractor, S. Saywell; cost, $5000. Southeast corner of Nineteenth and Angelica— Laundry. machinery plant; owner, Youths' Directory; architect, C. J. I Devlin; con- tractors, Troy Laundry Machine Company; cost, $1765. Berry street, between Sixth and Seventh— Ralsing of a story on a brick building, and alterations to first story; owners, King & Lathrop; cost, $1500. Easterly line of Taylor street, 46 feet north of Sacramento, north 28 by east 80— Removal of old buildings and all work for a new two-story frame dwelling; owner, J. L. Flood; architect, Albert Pissis; contractor, Willilam Paterson; cost, $4025. Junction of Ellis and ket streets, west 108:3 by south 76:7% by northeast 130:10— ‘Wrought and cast iron work, stone and con- crete work, mason and cement work for altera- tions and additions to a four-story frame building; owner, M. A. Gunst & Co.; architect, . A. Herman; contractor, James A. Wilson; cost, $1673. 2 Northerly line of EIlis street. 30 feet west of Gough, west 30 by north 100—Excavations for the erection of a building; Regers; architect, C. A. M; tractors, Warren & Malley; cost, $375. Northwest corner of Ellis and Gough streets, west 30 by north 100—Excavations preparatory to the erection of a buildin Louls Friedman;_architect, C. A. Muessdorffer; con- tractors, Warren & Malley; cost, §23. Northeast corner of Guerrero 'and Twenty- seventh, north 27 by east 80—All work for a two-story frame bullding; owner, P. Broderick; contractor, John Gilliogley; cost, $2850. RECENT SALES. The residence situated on the southerly line of California_street, between Laguna and Oc- was' formerly ~owned by Russell J. Wilson, was reoent}‘yhlold to Henry St. Goar, the stock broker. e lot is 40 by 187:6. The price paid was $24,000. The real estate brokers who negotiated the sale are Shainwald, Buckbee & Co. Two transfers of considerable value were made during the past week, the purchaser of both being V. M. Coyne. They consist of a 50 vara lot on the southeast corner of Vallejo and Front streets, bought from Willlam T. Wallace, Dio Hastings and others for 337,000 50 vara lot on Broadway and Front street from A. P. Hotaling for $0,000. The brokers in the transaction were Benjamin M. unn & Co. The following country sales were reported harft: B|tx Jundred :ml' elghty-ive pasturage land seven miles southwest by L. 5 Bantley to Christopher An- derson for §11 an acre, 450 acres of grain land in Glenn County by Willlam H. Hartley to Jacob Muller for $6000 and a farm of forty- one acres two miles from' Napa by Henry McDonald to Ge: ‘Wilcox for $3500. ‘The Richmond d House, . including the lot, 82:6 by 12, on the northeast corner of Eighth avenue and D street, has beeh bought y A. Hotaling & Co. from S, W. Coles for an estimated price of $13,000. The brokers were Benjamin Gunn & Co. A lot 32:6 by 137:6, on the northerly line of street, between Leavenworth and Hyde streets, has been sold by Thomas Magee & Sons for $10,500. The following lots and old street cars 4 been sold by Jacob He & Bons have : To something over 40 years. . Robinson, the lot 82:8 by 100 on the e tust corner of 1 street and Forty-gaventh | avenue and two cars, for $830; to Mrs. Staples, two cars and a lot 25 by 100 on the south line of T street, 32:6 east of Forty-seventh avenie: a cottage with a lot % by 120 on the eust line of Forty-seventh averue, between I and I streets, to John McCullom, for §1230; a lot 25 by | 120 on the same block to Thomas G. Obram. for $150; & lot of the same size on the same block to Samuel D. Cole, for $0; a lot 32:6 by 100 on the south line of J street to John Fita- cerald, for $120; a lot 25 by 120 to Charles Foung, for $860, and a lot 50 by 100, from Jacob Heyman to Lena Heyman, value $1250. RANDOM NOTES. Schlosser has awarded a contract for the et e er0. §i000 residences in San Rafael. The bulldings have already been leased to Messrs, M. L. and W. L. Gerstle. | The new Underwriters’ Fire Patrol building, | which has been in process of m?:t(:;cuon on City Hall avenue, hias been completed. s were pecsntly opened by the Harbor Commissioners for the erection of a number | of sheds on the water front. Gella Wolf has leased the premises situated at 244 Sutter street to Henry T. Hock for a year at §112 50 a month, and for two years at $125 a month. A meeting of the creditors of A, R. Denke, a real estate broker in Alameda, was recently held in the office of the Registrar in Bank- ruptey at Oakland. The assets are placed at $15,000 and liabilities at §16,868 33. A $5000 homestead has been declared by Mrs. o Albert P. Brown on the premises situated on | the northerly line of Hill street, 235 feet west f Noe. 0s.’\A, Pewter, a lumberman of Portland, Or., has disposed of 1,000,000,000 feet of standing lumber, chiefly fir, on Abiqua Creek, Oregon. The purchasers are from Wisconsin. They have formed themselves into a stock company called the Abiqua Lumber Company of Wisconsin for the purpose of placirig the lumber on the mar- kel M. Speck & Co. have removed their real estate office to 667 Market street. M. J. Lyon, the architect, is figuring on plans for the erection of twenty-one flats. The additions to the Grand Opera-house on Mission street are rapidly progressing, and will be completed In time for the production of grand opera early in March. AROUND THE | CORRIDORS. Chartes L. Dailey, a merchant of Salem, Or., is at the Grand. L. F. Bruner, a Sacramento business man, is at the Grand. Charles Rule, a dairyman and rancher of Duncans Mills, is at the Lick. W. L. Wimmer, a capitalist of Salt Lake City, Is a guest at the Russ. S. Glasgow, a mining man of Spokane, ‘Wash., is registered at the Palace. ‘William A. Bowden, a leading attorney of San Jose, is registered at the Palace. J. Aubineau, a mining man of Flagstaff, Arizona, is at the Russ, accompanied by his wife. Mrs. W. T. Ellis and her daughter, Mrs, Hope Sherwood, are registered at the Pal- ace from Marysville - Otto Schmidt, superintendent of the Crockett Sugar Refinery, and wife are registered at the California. ‘Willilam Cogswell, the artist, who has been in Honolulu for some,time, returned yesterday, and is at the Lick. George de la Vergne, who owns large interests in Honolulu, nas arrived at the Occidental for a prolonged stay. George Bray and R. Menzel, orchardists and land owners of Santa Clara, are mak- | ing their headquarters at the Russ. 8. H. Wagener and George B. McKee, of San Jose, who are interested in tan- neries in that town, are located at the Grand. J. B. Dermody, of Downieville; C. B. Hamilton,. of Napa; H. E. Irish, of Santa Cruz, and George A. Grymes are some of the Interior residents registered at the Lick. B. B. Nutting, a merchant of New York; James A. Gibson, a Los Angeles business man, and P. M. Garrity, a Chi- cago attorney, are some of the guests at the Palace. Felix E. Morton, a New Zealand mail agent who accompanies the Moana and represents the English postoffice, will be at the California until the departure of the steamer. P. C. Jones, a wealthy sugar planter of Honolulu, who has been connected with the Hawaiian government, is at the Occi- dental on his way to Philadelphia, where his children are being educated. Hon. J. J. Toohey, a member of the leg- islative council of New South Wales, and the largest brewer in Sydney, was one of the passengers on the Moana, and will make a protracted visit to the United States, M. Moss of Sydney, New South Wales, arrived vesterday and registered at the Occidental. He came to this coast to visit his ‘son in Oakland, whom he had not seen in six years. He learned after his arrival that the young man had recentiy gone to San Luis Obispo, and he will pro- ceed to that place to-day. Felix Brannigan, assistant to United States Attorney General Griggs, and W. Meclntire, of Washington, D. C., are at the Palace. They are here to take some dep- ositions in the suit of Bowers and Brown against the Government regarding the al- leged Infringement of a patent on a dredger, now pending in the United States Court of Claims. They expect to finish their work In a week and will then return home. —_——— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 8—J. T. Gordon of Los Angeles is at the Shoreham. L. Needham of Oakland is at Willards. ——— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Feb. 8—R. A. Graham of San Francisco is at the Windsor. W. J. Kennedy of San Francisco is at the Man- hattan. : —————— COMPELLED TO WED. Hearry Houston Would Shake His Venerable Wife Now That He Is of Age. Harry Hous¥on, some 21 years of age, filed suit yesterday in which he requests the court to annul his marriage to his wife, Harriet E. Houston, whom he mar- ried a year or so ago. Houston alleges that when he married his wife he was a youth of tender years and incapable of legally taking a wife, while she had lived Houston claims that he married his wife under fear of great bodily harm, and threats of injury to his character. She threatened to ex- pose him to all the world unless he mar- ried her, he alleges, and also stated that she would deal with him in ways not al- lowed by law. Fearful that he would get the worst of it, he led his motherly brfda to the aitar. Now he is of age and he repudiates her and asks the court to legal- ly. allow him to do so. Joseph Choate gives some very pertinent advice to his brothers in the law in next Sunday’s Call. | him, and upon his d 0LD MEMORIES NOT BITTER N0, How the war with Spain and its ge. quel of battle with the savage ; of the Philippines has wrought ing common brotherhood the peopl North and the South was n touchingly illustrated than by t tion of George H. Thoma R., Monday night. At its ing a motion prevailed that a cor tee be appointed to draft resol respect and condolence on the death Colonel William C. Smith. This was g course without precedent. Colonel Smith had worn the gray had fought in many a bloody e ment. Among them who had oy him then and found him ever a valian and honorable foe were membe: this very post. When he came here at the head of the Tennessee regiment they greeted him, they threw apen their doors to him, and with him excharn tales of the days when they had be foes. With laughter and with but always with a fraternity unmarre by memory, théy exchanged stories campaigns now a part of which there is no shame to eith and when he ed they wer wharf to wish him godspeed. Yet all this was personal, and Grand Army is hedged around strictive formalitie character of the.soldier s ‘and his one-time enemies, t would have done for one in their ranks, were ready to pay him the ute the soldier living gives to th dier dead.. The man who lays do his life for his countr ] the Stars and Stripes be draped about stant grave friend- | ship would lay a wreath. The committee decided that an edito- rial published in The call, and perhaps not devoid of sympathy, fully met the unique requirements, and so adopted it as its report. The editorial was as fol- lows: COLONEL SMITH OF TENNE Colonel William C. Smith, First nessee, died of apople at the h command on the firing line Febru histor; Such was the brief telegram wuich came | from. Manila to announce the death of as | loyal a patriot and as royal a gentleman as ever fought for principle or gave hand in friendship. Colonel Smith w soldier. In the days long gone he had battled for the Confederacy, and he had not laid down his arms until the leaders of the Southern cause had given up hope. How nearly right or how nearly wrong he mdy have been matters nothing now. It is enough to remember that when the country needed him he was ready for the call. He left his home, his lucrative busi- ness, and went to fight for the commo weal, making light of the burden of years, thinking only of the honor of the land. Of all the volunteer officers who passed through this city probably not another won o many friends. A person of digni- ty, gallant, modest, courage beaming from his eye, the best homes gladly welcomed him as a guest, and more than one vet- eran wearing the sign of the G. A. R. broke bread with him gladly For old things had passed away, over all there waved one flag, and among its noble de- fenders was this son of the South—this chivalrous, gentle, broad-minded man, a type of citizenship of which the North and the South may be proud. There will be mourning in Tennessee over this citizen, who freely gave his life, and there will be mourning in California, where he came as a stranger, and whence he departed respected and beloved. The committee was composed Charles H. Blinn, who had formed an intimacy here with Colonel Smith; W. C. Watson, who had known him in Tennessee, and A. .J. Vining. These are all veterans who saw hard service. Animosity has vanished, dividing lines have disappeared, and where the brave are sleeping none asks what cause they served in the years that have gone., ARE TIRED OF PRISON. M. H. Azhderian and Elsie Williams Ask to Be Released. M. H. Azhderian and Elsie Williams, convicted of having extorted several hun- dred dollars from Captain W. H. Nevills, are getting tired of jail. Yesterday after- noon counsel representing both prisoners appeared before Judge Cook and argued motions to release their clients on bail pending the appeal in their cases to the Supreme Court. On behalf of both affi- davits were presented stating that their health was in poor condition and that con- finement in the unsanitary jails was fast ruining their heaith. After the reading of the affidavits Judge Cook took the mat- ter under advisement until Friday. S e e Beaten by a Capitaiist. Charles H. Rogers, the capitalist, at Tenth and Folsom streets, charged with brutally beating his_sister-in-law, Mrs. Fay J. Barnes, last Friday, appeared in Judge Mogan's court yesterday. He pleaded not guilty and waived a jury, and the case was continued until Saturday. Mrs. Barnes was unable to appear in court. of —_——— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsends.*® —_———— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. = e Father MacCorry to Lecture. By special request Father MacCorry of the Paulist Community will repeat his leeture on “Individuality” next Monday night in Oakland under the auspices of tne Catholic Truth Society. R e Travelers should know that Dr. Siegert's An- gostura Bitters neutralizes impurities in water and corrects stomach troubles. ——————————— DYSPEPSIA CAN BE CURED BY USING Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets. One little tablet will give immediate relief or money refunded. Sold in handsome tin boxes. At Owl Drug Co. —_———— Died of His Injuries. Clarence Hermann Mealand died yester- day at St. Luke's Hospital of lockiaw, brought on by injuries received about & X‘erel;na. o in la tt:lelie.'lgn with an eli\‘lr‘\l: yant street, between Second an Third, Mealand and & male companion ‘were coming down the hill in a buggy {gle'nmlnw a car which was approac