The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 16, 1899, Page 6

THURSDAY .FEBRUARY 16, 1899 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. B T ;s All Communications to W, S. LEAKE, Manager. e e PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts. S. F. Telephone \ain 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2I7 to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CDNTS PER WEEK. Birgle Copies, 5 cents Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DATLY CALL (including Sunday Call), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 8 months. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Callj. DAILY CALL—By Single Month BUNDAY CALL one year WEEKLY CALL, cne year Al poetmasters are authorized fo 7éceive su Bample coples will be forwarded when requested. DAKLAND OFFICE.. H ..908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.. Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE .Rigges House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE:..... .....Marguette Buflding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. 27 Montgomery street, corner Clay, ck. 287 Hayes street, open until McAllister street, open until 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. clon street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market rner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock’ 2518 street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh pen untll 9 o'clock. 1805 Polk street, open NW. corner Twenty-second ana until 9 o'clock. BRANCH OF FIC -day Cycle Race to-night. Lady of Lions.” Ellis streets, Specialties. ne went dowr.: They had been mur- v most foul, but so far as it is per- 10 avenge a wrong the score m the sea. he horror the thirst for could pierce jus- as anybod tragedy life - of some day go out when - America, very urated royed, and the brave unsuspicious and. unafraid, -red hulk, to-day Spain is liant soldiers rest in unnamed ons have been taken.from her, ing but the memory of have not been unscathed. our armies. antiago and" the alls of We - think of them s of those above we rd the tread of peace. . even ers yesterday at Havana. been remembered, and forever it 1, for when those who live now and 11l have been called, there will still war with a courage and at even in ere will remain problems the ble, questions of e made pc fatal error. Let us honor the th, and the bravery which is to go, nor dwell upon the somber problems 1 diplomacy must face. s city, and probably in all 1 set of men slar would blush to exact. They . extortionate interest, payable of more than the face the loan, of the first lapse and foreclose. They rokers who do not pay licerise, and not only to do this, but to so ess that it would not be robbery, it often is. A person once in the clutches of of these financiers is a helpless serf, toiling to , a master,.and unhappily the law permits it. - forces a man to mortgage his humble , and pay 10 T cent a montl interest, ly despoiled as though held nt of a pistol. Te ecessit possessior that up at the Th need ant fora certa 1f a teacher hypothecate his salary in month, and the city, having ac- te e on. s servi be the discomfort. He can better af- an can the teacher, and if not willing e the chance of waiting has no business to upon the contract. a November { there happen to be no November salary, ng with the teacher, the Joaner has right to take the salary of a succeeding The trouble s, however, that these note- s do as they please, and do not care whether it t or If he buy ot. s e e asion for s There is no oc; 12 hat the Chinese are slaying the missionaries. It must be remembered that these good ‘men and women are representatives of the godly nations which are even now scheming to steal China, and discussing the project with all the candor of a band of bur; Advocates of horse meat for the table do not realize the character of the prejudice they have to combat. It is not th people think too much of a horse to want “him aughtered. The idea strikes them as a move in the direction of cannibalism. France is said to be preparing for war with Eng- The nature of the preparations is not declared, ! land. but it is probably analogous to that of the boy who anticipated a hostile meeting with his father and for- tified his rear elevation by secreting there a dried codfish. Acording to the press, the Daly température froze | the “soul” of Miss Bates. ) Probably misprint for “sole,” and a delicate hint at cold feet. As to regulars and velunteers the safest course is not to monkey with either ‘one of them. 9:30 | | | r ago perished | | [ | ose in her awful might | who lend money on | e class of brokers who shave warrants seem also | refuse to pay for them, upon the | at the deed of unpro-| ated Gove 2 [‘rectors and trustees of pub | & si all fc scale of appropriations-and which since has hap- | 8 »od reasons, call for a scale of appropria an | cumstances. | whole question is unfortunate. In a Republican | county, with Senators and Representatives of that | party. in the Legislature, may be public institutions | at this moment under Democratic boards of control the members strive to get them passed, lest the peo- willfully shift. their parental responsibility upon {the State and needlessly put off their | natural obligation for the care and discip- line of their children. In too many instances STATE ECONOMY. HE ‘people of this .State expect the Legislature Tlo zealously second the economical policy of the Governor for the coming biennium. No doubt is felt of his absolute integrity "of intention to that end, and there is already-evidence that he will use his veto to eniorce it. The demands by many State institutions for new build- ings and betterments need a searching examination. In many instances it seems quite unlikely that impera- tive necessity has arisen since the last Legislature adjourned. There is needed for each reform school, especially, a painstaking management, capable of finding out the numerous instances in which parents reform of vicious parents is needed more than re- form of their unfortunate children. In the insane asylums is a great field for reform. In them the State is burdened with obligations which by nature belong to individuals who conceal their capacity to discharge them. California has an extensive and costly equipment of cleemosynary institutions, and we are within the facts when we say that not only other States but foreign countries take advantage of the kindness of this State | to the defective classes by the deliberate expatriation of their own citizens of these classes to this State to become the objects of its care and increase the bur- | dens of its taxpayers. : A business Governor, if he can take the time and an go, like Haroun Al Raschid, appearing unex- | pectedly and investigating quietly, can find out much in the interest of economy in our public institutions. This involves no charge of extravagance against their local boards of control, because, a fact ~of | record, our incorrigible, penal and defective classes | in these institutions have long been maintained at a chéaper rate per capita than in similar institutions in representative Eastern States. The extravagance is | tc be sought in the number cared for by the public, who should be charged to individuals, relatives, who | are abundantly able to observe in that respect their | jons, and in the useless expense put | natural obli into buildings and the enlargement of quarters in the | ¢ expectation of a future demand for their use. The v with the L;O\'E.V“fi\'-s s, and the W and the Finance | inaugural declaraf and Means Committee of the Hou Committee of the Senate should scan carefully | every demand. It is unfortunate that, the mana titutions being lar nor begins his ment of our State (] o i ration newly inaugur- with di- ely parti c When' these o m in politi expenditures from which they refrained under the ad- ministration of their own party, it is quite worth | while to inquire searchingly into the justifying cir- The intricate relation of politics to the | It is only natural that | | | [ king large appropriations. | { ple at home accuse them of neglecting local interests. | The ‘system makes against economy, and it is highly | probable that the:Governor, who represents the whole | State and ne one locality, will have to bear the re- | it is subjected to intense heat, the meat presents a repulsive appearance at first. Furthermore, it tran- spires that occasionally an inferior article is found. But the records of the army prove that canned beef has been used for many years.” It is not likely that the controversy can be closed with such a report as that. It has never been charged that all the canned meat was bad or that all the fresh beef was embalmed. The country expects an inves- | tigation of the specific charges made by General Miles and not a vague review of this kind. For that reason, therefore, the report of the commission will not be accepted as final. The issue remains open. THE STATE AND THE EXPOSITION. UBLIC opinion throughout the State is p strongly in favor of the proposed Pacific Expo- sition. That much is made certain by the in- terviews with officials and leading people in various cities published in The Call of yesterday and to-day, and the natural inference is that when the movement has become better understood the sentiment in its faver will be almost universal. Qur reports came from Woodland, Oakland, Sac- ramento, Stockton, San Rafael, Healdsburg, Santa Rosa, Bakersfield, San Jose, Suisun, Salinas, Napa, Hanford, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Bernardino and other important points, and from all these places, with but few exceptions, the prevailing opinion of the people was shown to be one of strong approval of the enterprise. Indeed in most places the centiment in favor of the project might be fairly de- scribed as enthusiastic, so cordially did the progres- sive citizens indorse the undertaking. That there would be some apposition to the expo- sition was of course foreseen. No matter what move- ment of a public nature is projected there are al- ways persons who think some other movement would be better, or that the particular project would be good enough provided it were postponed for a year or two. Such opposition has to be met and over- come in every new enterprise, and it is gratifying that in this instance it has been found to be of compara- tively small ‘proportions. There are many reasons why the State at large should be eager to provide for the proposed expo- tion. California has reached the point.in her de- velopment where there is required a diversification of her industries and a new market for the products of existing industries. We need an infusion of capital into manufacturing plants and a large expansion of commerce, and the attainment of both will be aided | by the proposed exposition, which will attract the at- tention of the world to the advantages of San Fran- cisco as a commercial metropolis and to the thousand opportunities. offered in all parts of California for industrial investments. The strange objection has been made in some quarters that the exposition would not be profitable. It is difficult to understand from what source such n idea has been derived. There have been many ex- positions in the United States, and the results have invariably been of a nature to encourage others. Thus within the last few years the exposition in At- lanta was so successful that Nashville was induced to undertake one, and that in turn yielded such good results that Omaha followed the example, and now, stimulated by the accomplishments of that city, no less than five other American communities, not counting San Francisco, are engaged in making preparations for expositions in the near future. Experience is the best teacher, and the practical common sense of the American people knows how to | sponsibility of drastic enforcement of economy, and | profit by its lessons. To assert that expositions are | therein he will certainly require public support and | not profitable to the cities where they are held and | | | | | | | | the flesh is uncleanly, but that ordinary | | the commission regarded the issue as a minor one in should receive popular approbation. 1t is noticeable that already many propositions are | fnade for the establishment of new commissions fr)r! various purposes, principally necessary and praise- worthy, and that they are to serve without salary or expense to the State. - This is a distinct innovation, but even it requires to be guarded. Out of every uch commission may in the future grow a salaried nd expensive establishment. Therefore care should | be taken that the organic act creating it states speci- | fically its duties and limits and terminates the time for | their execution, and then repeals itself by providing | that the position or office shall cease, end and have | no further exi THE W‘AR COMMISSION REPORT. F the report made by the War Commission ‘to | the President it may be said it is so dis- appointing in its nature that few people will be | willing to accept it as the final word on the ‘subject.” It is long without being comprehensive, full of detail | without being definite and critical without being con- clusive. On the subject of the controversy between General | Miles and the Commissary Department, concerning the nature of the meat supplies of the army, the re- | port is particularly weak, and yet it is upon that point | the people were most eager for a complete and au- thoritative decision. From the summary of the re-| port that has been given to the press it would appear | the conduct of the war, instead of being one of the | most serious with which it had to deal. General Miles testified that much of the beef fur- | nished the army-was preserved with chemicals; that it i | was virfually embalmed beef; that some of it was covered with a green mold; that the odor was foul and that the troops could not eat it. The testimony ci the general was confirmed by reports of many of the army inspectors and regimental officers. It showed a vile conspiracy on the part of the contrac- | l.tors to enrich themselves by supplying the army not with the good beef for which the Government paid, but with stuff so foul it was almost poisonous to ! those who fed upon it. | The publication of this evidence roused the people | tc a glow of indignation which was increased when | Eagan replied to the charges of Miles with that out- | burst of blackguardism which has led to his forced | retirement from the army. With so much public | feeling displayed in the matter we had a right to ex- ‘ pect of the commission an exhaustive review of the | subject with recommendations that would lead to the ! to wide districts of country round about is equivalent tc asserting that the business men of the East are fools. They have tried expositions, and it is in the light of an ample experience they are now preparing more of them. The Atlanta Exposition benefited not only that city, but the entire South, and it was the conscious- with another at Nashville. The results of the two were that Northern capital has been turned in a steady stream to the South, and manufacturing plants of all kinds are being put up throughout the Southern States with extraordinary rapidity. California needs the exposition, and the sooner she can open it the better. The tide of commercial ec- tivity is now flowing strongly toward the Pacific Ocean, and if we are’ wise we will hasten to profit by the stream. Tsucd warrants for the arrest of three deputy poundkeepers on a charge of stealing a horse from John Brennan, who resides at 262z Gough street. Brennan’s story is that the deputies broke into an inclosed lot at the corner of Green and Gough streets and deliberately drove his horse out into the street. When he protested against the outrage the deputies gathered around him and threatened to give him a good licking if he did not immediately go about his business. Reference is made to this matter at the present time for the purpose of calling attention once more to the necessity of reforming the public pound. The late Board of Supervisors took the institution away from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and placed it in charge of a politician. In spite of the nymerous charges and complaints presented to them these Supervisors refused to restore the pound to its original managers. In other words, they con- sidered politics as paramount to the public interest, and they turned a deaf ear to all exhortations by press and people. s The lawlessness to which we now call attention may -very properly be considered by the present Board of Supervisors, the members of which are showing nany signs of a desire to improve municipal condi- tions. We know of no department of the govern- wient in which the board could strike 2 more effective blow for reform than in the department of the public pound. What should be done is to dismiss poundkeeper and restore the institution to the con- trol of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to REFORM THE POUND. HE other day Acting Police Judge Barry is- punishment of the guilty parties; for surely some- | Animals. “Whether this is done or not, the pound body is guilty; either the contractors have defrauded | should be taken out of politics. the Government and endangered the liars as Eagan said they were. “ Yet on this subject the commission contents itseif | with censuring General Miles for not reporting the | matter earlier and declaring the neglect on his part | was a “dereliction of duty.” demnation upon Dr. W. H. Daly, major and chief | lives of the | troops or Miles and his officers are as many kinds of | JImpounding estray animals is not an agreeable business, but there are men who will undertake it and manifest some regard for the interests and feelings of the people. At all events, it is unnecessary for the poundkeeper to employ hoodlums and lawbreakers. Throughout the long period during which the pound It places the same con- | was in charge of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals no scandals appeared in connec- surgeon of United States Volunteers, whose reports | tion with it. Since it has become a political attach- agree with the testimony of Miles as to the nature of‘i the beef. Upon the main issue the report says the commis- sion obtained a number of samples of canned and of ment, however, the Police Court is constantly oc- cupied with complaints against its managers. . An interesting feature of the story that Gomez has refrigerated beef and had them examined by the! sffered his sword to Porto Rico is the nerve of the Agricultural Department and they were found to be free from chemicals. It adds: “The unanimous report shows that a number of officers testified that canned beef was unpalatable. 1t is also elicited that in a tropical country, where person promulgating it. Porto Rico is not in need of swords. The Dreyfus scandal and our own embalmed beef episode ought to pair. . ss of the fact that led the Tennesseeans to follow it the | HE WAS DEAD, BUT IS VERY MUCH ALIVE Strange Tale From Alaska Wilds. THE WRONG SAM ROBERTS MRS. GEER LEARNS THAT HER BROTHER WAS NOT SLAIN. Three Men Are Now in San Quentin for Robbing and Killing a Man Who Is Really at Skaguay. ‘s ® ¢ With love to mother and your- self, I remain, your brother, who is very much allve. . SAM ROBERTS.” The letter of which the foregoing is the conclusion brought joy to a family in this city, for the writer had long been given up as lost—foully murdered for his gold in the wilds of Alaska. Several years ago Sam Roberts, son of Mrs. L. A. Roberts and brother of Mrs. Addie Geer of 1425 Golden Gate avenue, went out into the world to seek his fortune. He engaged in the cattle and land business in. Arizona, but the Mexican cattle thieves drove off his herds and the price of land fell. Next heard of him, he was with relatives in the State of Washington, and last came the informatjon that the glitter of gold in the new fields of Alaska had. turned his foot- steps to the frozen north. The next information of the wanderer was a severe shock to the family. The daily papers told a tale of how Sam Rob- erts was murdered for his gold in a lonely cabin on the Dyea trail. The story was that the unfortunate man had cleaned up about $32,000 in gold from his claims and was last seen alive in the company of three well-known desperate characters— Fitzpatrick, Brooks and Corbett by name. The next the body was found murdered in the cabin and all of the money gone. A crowd of the rough but honest miners of the north made search and found the men suspected of having committed the crime. But for the strenuous efforts of the law and order committee the three would have been hanged to the nearest tree on the trail. The Alaska court was not slow, and the circumstantial evidence was so Strong against them that impris- onment was the verdict. For Fitzpatrick the judgment was life imprisonment, he being considered to be the most guilty of the trlo. Brooks and Corbett were sentenced for ten years each. There being no State prisons in Alaska, the three convicts were sent to California, and after nearly escaping from the deputies in charge were landed in San uentin, Mrs. Geer communicated with the authorities in Alaska and described her brother, even to the mole on the right side of his nose. The answer dashed all hope to the ground, for the description of the murdered man corresponded to a dot with that of the long absent brother, and the mother, daughter and younger children mourned him as lost. One day they received a strange visitor. She in- troduced herself as Mrs. Dickerson of Alameda, sister of Fitzpatrick in San Quentin. She said that she had talked with her brother in the prison and was sure that he never killed Sam Roberts in Alaska. Mrs. Dickinson asserted that the three convicted men were victims of circum- stances and the fury of an unreasonable mob of gold hunters who were deter- mined to have blood for blood, and that the unfortunate Sam Roberts had been killed by some one else. Mrs. Dicker- son evidently was looking toward the time when the crime would pass from the minds of the public and when a par- don might be obtained for her brother. Without any opposition from the family of the murdecred man the task would be much easier. * 7 Several months ago by chance Mrs. Geer happened to hear of a man named Roberts who was interested in a news- Faper in Skaguay, and although she be- leved that her brother was dead and bu- ried, she wrote to the Roberts of the Skaguay paper. Yesterday mother and children received a surprise ‘that nearly took away their senses, for when the ostman handed them a letter the ad- ress as _in a handwriting too well known to be mistaken. The chirography of the supposed murdered man was al- most identical with that of his father, the late Judge Roberts of this city. It was from Sam Roberts, not him whose lonely grave is beside the Dyea trail and whose identity may never be known, but from the son and brother mourned as dead. The writer saifi that he knew of “the other Sam Roberts” and of his tragic end, but never thought that any attention wouid be paid to it here, because so many roor fellows have met with similar fates | Alaska, of which the outside world knows nothing. Rob- erts fifl\'e the cheering information that he is in excellent health, owns a part in- terest in a daily newspaper n Skaguay and owns several mining claims, besides being ‘‘very much alive.” The other fea- tures deal with family affairs and con- cludes in the language already quoted. An extraordinary burden has been lifted g":!em the family at 1425 Golden Gate ave- QUALIFICATIONS OF HORSESHOERS Editor of The Call: There appeared in your valuable paper of February 9 an ar- ticle under the head of “Paternalism Gone Mad.” If you will kindly grant space for a reply I will endeavor to cast some light on the sybject. You claim to never before have heard of a State establishing a board to pass upon the qualifications of horseshoers, and you venture to say that the annals of legislation will be searched in vain for an instance in which a State has actually interfered with the feet of its beasts of burden. Now, let us look at the facts in the case. In 189, when the first measure to regulate the practice of horseshoeing was introduced into the Legislatures of Illinois and New York some people were wont to take n surprise at the suggestion that horse- shoers would demand the passage of such a law as they had proposed. Little by little the reasonableness of the proposi- tion became apparent, and when it was shown that in the almost unknown prov- inces of Western Europe similar laws to those we were seeking were in force, and tha.l.datter all, it was but a measure of an educationai character that wi opposition faded away and the uepesx?!‘ei"t‘atd legislators acquiesced in many instances | to the wishes of the craft as well as to those of a horse-loving community, whose support of the proposed law was strong ax}:i ;‘m‘-nast. ek egislation for horseshoers may still said to be in its infancy, bu{ itt llsb: healthy infant, and its kind throughout the States and Canada is being willingly fostered. This is solely due to the Master Horseshoers’ National Protective Asso ! tion, whose indefatigable workers for ct':;\ betterment of the craft were instrument in pushing legislation that was of a b::l eficial as well as of a protective nature. Once being recognized, it was seized upon by all associations Interested. Now_we have enacted laws in the States of New York, Colorado, Minnesota, Illinois and Maryland. Word comes from many sources that bills are framed for a number of States which will be enacted into laws ere the 1st of March, 18%9. That legislation is necessary for the craft and tfie public is apparent. The horseshoer wants pay for his work and the public wants a man to do its work who knows the mechanism and construction of the animal to be shod and who has thé ability to do the work right. The restrictive laws cover all this and should be enacted where a spark’of humanity lurks in the breast of horse- owners and members of the craft. With general all-round assistance the work can e crowned with success. In the ties in recent years roads are paved with ali kinds of | indestructible material, while in the [} roads are graveled and This tests the work- and_skill of the horseshoer more than when dirt s were all a horse's foot had to contend with. One realizes at a glance that this state of affairs de- mands more skill than when a flat shoe met all the requirements. Now a horse- shoer must know not only that a shoe fits, but must know the kind of shoe that will do the work to be pérformed over the roads to be traveled, and whether the conformation of the animal is such that such a shoe will cripple or maim it. This Tequires thought and study—a knowledge nc& only of the horseshoer’s trade, but also of the anatomy of the animal to be shod. The restrictive laws passed in the various States are for the purpose of com- pelling all horseshoers to be up to the standard before they can obtain admis- ion to a city or village and ractice. Such is the best legislation ever effected for the owners of horseflesh. 1t 1 may be pardoned for prophesying in conclusion that the time is not far dis- tant when the owner of a horse or mule will not ask a shoer whether he can shoe the animal. He will demand of him, Are | you a member of the Master Horse; shoers’ National Protective Assoclation? And is the restrictive law in force in your State? This will be the countersign and assword to all, as it will be known ?hruughout our broad land that any one who can answer in the affirmative is a workman who has knowledge and skill sambined and ls honcsl 83, 2ivs 1 this . He is the one that will survi age of progress. HORSESHOER. MILLIOKS HANG ON THE LAWYER'S WORDS AN APPEAL TO THE SUPREME COURT INVOLVING MUCH. Yesterday’s Argument in the Case of Fox vs. Mackay, Jones and Flood. | The argument on appeal from the juds- ment rendered by Judge Seawell in the Superior Court of this city in the case of | Theodore Fox vs. John W. Mackay, Sen- ator John P. Jomes and the Comstock Mining Company was had yesterday In Department 2 of the Supreme Court. H. G. Sieberst and S. H. Regensburger ap- peared for the plaintiff, while .the de fendants’ interests were looked after by | W, B. F. Deal and Edmund Tauszky. The case, which involves several mil- Jons_ of dollars, presents many of -he | features of the celebrated Hale & No | cross suit. Flood. Mackay and Jones constituted the milling company which secured the contract to mill the ore from | the Consolidated California and Virginia Mining Company, of which company Fox is_a stockholder. Mackay was also a stockholder in the mining company, in which concern he owned the controlling interest. Fox, the was, through a conspiracy, controlled by | Mackay, Flood and Jones. charged an ex- | orbitant price by the milling company for | its service and that the conspiracy was | ossible and the extortion allowed | made through the influence of Mackay, who controlled the mining company. while owner in the mill. He | being__part therefore brought suit to compel Mac- | kay, Jones, Flood and the mill company to account for moneys received and to | make restitution of all gains resulting | from the alleged fraud. | "The case was heard by Judge Seawell | in the Superior Court, and on December | 5, 1895, a judgment was rendered by him | in favor of the defendant, he holding that | as for over three years all the stockhold- ers of the mining company had full knowledge of the contract with the miil company. and as they acquiesced in all the material points it contained they by such acquiescence ratified them and lost by their laches the right to demand it be | set aside. | {AROUND THE CORRIDORS. | Mrs. A. C. Broyles and son of Chico are guests at the Lick. . | Charles B. Younger, an attorney of | Santa Cruz, is at the Lick. W. C. D. Easton of Chichester, Eng., is registered at the Palace. | M. Schauver and wife of Chicago are among the guests at the California. | J. L. Barham of Red Biuff put his name | on the Grand register last evening. James G. Kline of Philacelphia is at | the Lick and is accompanied by his wife. F. D. Blodgett, M. D., a prominent phy- sician of Tulare, is staying at the Grand. M. J. Wright, State Surveyor General, came up from Sacramento yesterday and | is making the Grand his headuarters. | Louis Dean, a cattleman of Reno, and | Assemblyman P. H. Mack of. Inyo Coun- ty are two of the arrivals at the Russ. E. W. Runyon, a Red Bluff banker; H. ! B. Vercoe and wife of London and J. A. Kunkel and wife of New York are guests | at the Palace. | First Lieutenant Fred M. Yale of the First Nebraska Volunteers has returned | from the Philippines and is at the Occi- dental en route to his home. Albert C. Larperteur of Minneapolis, Minn., traveling representative of Field and Stream, 2 magazine for sportsmen, is a guest at the Brooklyn Hotel. E. S. Churchill, a Napa banker; Frank- ! lin Balou of Leadville, Colo.; and Pro- fessor O. P. Jenkins of Stanford Univers- ity are registered at the Palace. 46—+ When the Amer- ican army of oc- WITH cupation first en- tered Manila its THE BOYS IN | (cers ana men | MANILA. were not quite is well up in Span- ish vernacular as they now are. Most of them could speak nothing at ail in the elega.t and vourtly tongue of Castile, and they all understood | even less than they spoke. But they were anxious to learn --d whenever they caught a word or phrase 1!2 was sure to find a lodgment in their brains, whence 1t could easily be brought forth when occasion demanded. ¥ The trouble was that ‘the bright stu- dent did not always wait for the occasion | to appear of its own accord. Often he | would be so proud of his new -com- | plishment that he would attempt to create | the occasion which would give him an o~ portunity to display it. The creating no-t | of the business was not always a success | and sometimes resulted in the vain one | meeting with discomfiture. | One day a sentry was standing at his | post, when his colonel approached and proceeded to put him through his paces. “Do you know your general orders?” in- | quired ‘the colonel. “I do,” responded the sentry. “Recite them. The sentry did so. “What would you do in case of fire?” next asked the colonel. “Discharge my piece, try to put the con- flagration out; call the guard and give tt | general alarm,” replied the man. | " “Very good,” sald the colonel. “Now, | boy, you are supposed to keep an ecye | the Puente Colgante and to notice. eve; thing passing up and down stream. you not?’ “Well, then—" and the colonel’s swelled with gratified anticipation if you saw a steam launch_fill | armed Filipinos come plowing its, | the Escolta?’ “Drop dead,” replied the sent The name of the river is colta is the name of the pri ness street in the city. ‘When the colonel now men he uses English; just day English; words of t#0 syllables, Nothing more. f ? Mrs. 8. O. L. Potter, why left here two months ago to join her jusband, Major Potter, brigade surgeon/of the Eighth Army Corps, in Manila, #s returned and is now at the Occident: Charles W. Strine, asdStant manager of the Ellis Opera Compedy. Which will ap- pear in this city nexy month, is at the Palace with his wife. T'his is Mr. Strine’s plaintiff, alleged that the mining company i in the Interest of fourth trip to this city the opera. season, and he will remain until the completion of the engagement. Mrs. John W. Linck, with a plump boy baby, arrived yesterday from Tacoma to spend a week or two with Special A%ent es- Linck, who thinks that that baby i tined to be a bigger man than Dewey. Lieutenant Vincen "Carvahol of the Spanish army at Manila arrived here yes- terday with his-sister, Maria del Rosarlo Carvahol, and registered at the Russ. They are accompanied by C. H. Lamman of the Pay Department, United States Army, and will visit the principal cities of the United States. Major John D. Merritt, U. 8. A., who was an additional paymaster at Manila, is now at the Occidental on his way to ‘Washington to report for orders. Major Merritt states that the health of the troops in the Phillppifes is excellent and times are good on account of the dis- bursing of money among them. Lieutenant James D. Gallup of the Wy- oming Volunteers, Lieutenant Orrin R. Grow of the Utah Light Battery and Quartermaster Henry Murray of the South Dakota Regiment have arrived from Manila on sick leave and will be at the Grand for a few days. They are awalting instructions from Washington with regard to their future movements, but most likely they will return home. ST AR A CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Feb. 15—A. Roullier of San Francisco is at the Imperial. A. L. McLeod of San Francisco is at the Marl- borough. Charles Woods of San Fran- cisco is at the Cosmopolitan. e THAT TOBACCO RULING. Leaf Dealers W;ll Ht;ld a Meeting This Mornin~ to Consider It. All leaf tobacco dealers were yesterday served with the following notice by the local collectors of internal revenue: Office G. W. Wilson, Acting Commissioner In- ternal Revenue. This office notes with some concerri the pub- lication from the correspondent of one of the tobacco papers that leaf dealers in San Fran- cisco have agreed among themselves to sell at retail not less than five pounds of Sumatra bacco, ten pounds of Havana or twenty-five pounds of any variety of seed tobacco, this to- bacco to be put up in cases and it is presumed to-be taken from the original package. f so it would be In violation of the statute of regu- lation and such action cannot be tolerated. The troubles of the small manufacturers of cigars have already been told. A re- Sent Tuling has forbidden leaf dealers to Sell 1ess than a bale of any kind of leaf tobacco, and the small manufacturers say that they are unable to purchase so much at one time. The law has been vio: Jated, pending an appeal. The result of the appeal is told in the foregoing letter, Festarday afternoon a meeting of leaf dealers was held and the matter gener- ally discussed, vut no definite plan of ac- fion ‘could be agreed upon. ~Another meeting will be held in Chamber of Com- Mmerce Hall at 10 o'clock this morning, and In the meanwhile the law will be rig- idly obeved. 1t has been stated that no attention is paid to the law in any part of the coun- Pry but San Francisco, but this is denied by the collectors of internal revenue, who say San Francisco merchants are the only people who have made any objec- tions to it. ——————— FUNERAL OF JOHN CROWLEY. He Had Been a Postoffice Employe for Thirty-Four Years. The funeral of John Crowley, one of the oldest clerks in the Postoffice Depart- ment, took place vesterday morning from St. Joseph’s Church. The pall-bearers were from the general Postoffice on ‘Washington street, as follows: B. F. McKinley, W. L. Stowell, H. A. Martin, A. W. Perry, A. J. Vining and H. Schuck. s An elegant floral plece was donated by the fellow clerks of the deceased. The remains were interred in Calvary Cem- etery. M2 Crowley entered the postal service thirty-four years ago in this city as box clerk and made an excellent record. In he became stamp clerk and continued in that position up to a few montlis ago, when he became so feeble that he was taken from the window and given lighter work to do in another department. 1it- tle less than a month ago he went to bed sick. The deceased was 68 years old and leaves a daughter. Telegraph Rates Reduced. The Western Union Telegraph Company announces the following reduction in rates to Cuba and Porto Rico: On and af- ter February 15, 1809, the rate from all ‘Western Union offices on the Pacific Coast will be reduced as follows: To Havana, Cuba, 35 cents per word, in- stead of the present rate of 5 cents per word; to Cienfuegos, Casilda and Tuno Cuba. 20 cents per word beyond Havan: to Jucaro, Santa Cruz, Manzanillo and Santiago, Cuba, 25 cents per word beyond Havana; to all offices in Porto Rico the rate will be % cents per word, instead <f §1 27 per word as at present. Correspond- fng reductions_to inland -places in Cuba have been made, a full list of which will be published shortly, —_— e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. COURS DE CASSATION-P., City. A cours de cassation in the French judiciary is a court of appeal. DEWEY AS REAR ADMIRAL—E., City. George S. Dewey was created rear admiral of the United States navy May 1, 1898. LURLINE—A correspondent of this de- partment is very anxious to know the origin of the word ‘Lurline.” Can any reader of this department furnish the de- sired information? PROPERTY IN BOSTON—B., City. For the purpose of diSposing of a piece of property in Boston, Mass., you had bet- ter consult some notary ‘public who is a commissioner fof Massachusetts and he wlll give you al the advice you may re- quire. _————————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsends.® ————— Special infrmation supplied daily to business hofses and public men by the Press Clipphg Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery stret. Telephone Main' 1042 ¢ ee——— 1a the Div rce Courts. Elise pansen filed suit for divorce from Marcus M. Hansen yesterday, alleging craelty @s a cause of action. Helen E. Grey tas sued George C. Grey for a di- Vorce, alleging failure to provide. —_————————— For & tonic for the mervous and dyspeptic nothiIg equals a little Angostura Bitters. The genube, Dr. Slegert's, in port or sherry. e The Steamers Collided. 2. M. Partridge has sued the Southern pcific Company to recover $5000 damages #r personal injuries. Partridge was a passenger on the Garden City on Feb- ruary 3, 15%, and on the trip to Oakland that boat collided with the Piedmont. Partridge was severely injured in the ac- cident. Hence his suit. pr———— Baking Powder Made from pure creamif_tarta.r. Alum ‘menacers to h powders are the greatest of the present day.