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F : THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1899. wonder was that Pistolesi was not grdered LA e .MARCH 4. 1899 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. g Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. e A~ e PUBLICATION OFFICE.. Market and Third Sts., S. P. Telephone Main 1868. CDITORIAL ROOMS..........217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephbne Main 1874 DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEE Single Coples, & cents. Terms by Mall, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), ope year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 6 months. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), $ months. DAILY CALL—By Single Month. SUNDAY CALL One Yeer. WEEKLY CALL, One Year All postmasters are authorized to receive su femple copies will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFKCE..... ...908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (. C.) OFFICE C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE Marquetto Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Represcatative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay 930 o'clock. 87 Hayes street, open antil 930 o'clock. 62! McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:3¢ o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2813 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh strect, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Poik strest, open untll 930 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ene ‘tucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMU-EMENTS > the Cross.’” Twist. “"Madeline, or the Magic Kiss.” Vaudeville r—The Girl I Left Behind Me."” edy—""A Trip Across the Ocean.’ pera House—Ellis Opera Company, Monday even- a 0 rch 13 Zbo—Pianka, the ‘Lady of Lions.” S on and Ellis streets, Specialties. LED TO DISHONOR. ve been no fearful ar- ent of the racetrack than appeared in this ; morning, and this was simply a ven without prejudice, a partial list fallen through the temptation to more San Quentin. Others race, but all have found n and women and There are people who have been gery, plain theft, murder. flight have escaped the con- s of their misdeeds. There are others who cace and oblivion of the grave. t does not seem to us there is need of extended The truth is on record and speaks for it- the races in almost constant opera- They hold out their deadly lure day after day onth after month, and all the time the dupes 1 steady procession to the track or the pool- room, there to wager and lose the money they can nd, whether this be their own or belonging lement, fo are those who ch ployer. racing. It is not sport. On the contrary, it is un- clean confidence operating, in which a large part of ned with disgrace, even with blood. 1d be restricted there is no ques- Tt has grown from an amusement to a gigantic It I been wholly perverted from any good purpose. Now it is a gambling game, with the cards stacked—a gold brick device, with the gilding thin. evertheless it catches its prey, and these are entitled to protection; it supports a lot of touts and vagrants entitled to no protection, makes rich a lot of specu- I n gullibility, and brings many a young SCIL RHODES, the British statesman, who is the foremost representative of British imperial- m and has been the chief agent in extending rican dependencies of his native country, has mteered apparently to advise the United States to the vol take up what he interprets to be “the white man's burden.” His gratuitous recommendations have the merit of Arctic coolness and would be very refresh- ing in warm weather. expense of revolutionizing this Government and giving us the position of a near wheeler, attached to the British chariot, he suggests that our pension list be curtailed, or, in other words, that we transfer a large part of our receipts from the American to the British side of our policy, and make our wounded and dead soldiers and their representatives pay the cost of stealing territory and enslaving Asiztic populations. This proposition, especially coming from Cecil Rhodes, will attract the careful attention of our people, of their representatives in Cong ress, and of the executive branch of the Govern- “Why,” he says, as reported, in reference to colonization, “y like mother’s milk, apparently with the greatest delight” It occtrs to us that this kind of “mother’s milk” will probably curdle on the American stomach, and that the maternal breast that Great Britain has usually presented to the lips of the barbarians she has as- sumed the right to civilize has yielded blood instead of milk. A few more interviews such as that asso- ciated with the name of Mr. Rhodes will exercise a most useful educational influence upon our citizens, who have already begun to read over our constitution, tc study our national history, and to mutter American sentiments in the ears of American annexationists. B —— Congressman Lewis of Washington, he of the flowing locks and the multitudinous whiskers, lately inserted his finger in a cigar-cutter. He now has less finger, but he knows far more than he did. ment. »u are taking to it The Illinois young woman who shot her brother-in- law because she did not like him was guilty of undue haste. The mere fact of being disliked does not prop- erly constitute a capital offense. TR No Senator will enjoy a junketing trip to Agnews this year, although there are several who by promis- ing to go there and stay could get the necessary trans- portation by asking for it. —_— The flag is no longer to be used for advertising pur- poses, although wherever it is scen the world may know that your Uncle Sam is in business at the old stand. hing to be said in favor of continuous In order to meet the increased THE LIGHT OF DAY. QVED, probably, by fear of desertions, Burns has found it necessary to caucus his sup- porters and bind them in a pledge to prevent an election of Senator, if they can, unless a secret | caucus, by secret ballot, shall nominate a candidate. In his address to his supporters Burns said: “I have | made no secret of my operations, but have invited the ‘! light of day into everything that 1 have gone into.” That sounds well, and we hasten to assure Mr. Burns that if he will continue to invite the light of day it will cheerfully accept the invitation to the end. But | he attached something more than R. S. V. P. to his | invitation. Tt is not an unlimited offer of hospitality | to the light of day, for he added: “I am not only will- i ing but anxious to go into a caucus in the good old | Republican way, and by the decision of such caucus it will be my pleasure to abide.” From this caucus the light of day is excluded. It is a secret caucus, and if the highly prized light of day should get in there it is evident that Mr. Burns would not give it the | glad hand. It is simply a declaration and an admission that in the open, publicly, @nd in the light of day, his fight cennot be won, and that his success depends upon a trap ready to be sprung while the light of day is cooling its illuminated and sunsmitten heels in the anteroom. Nothing is more obvious than this. If he have the strength to elect him it can be shown in the joint con- vention, in the light of day, and if his purposes are so vestal and high it should be his pleasure to show it. The Republican party of this State does not want a caucus in the “good old Republican way,” because | that way was in the beginning adopted to prevent men like Burns getting to the Senate, or grasping the other great prizes of the party offered as a reward of } merit, fitness and fidelity. Like many other good old ways, it is a lock whose combination has been learned | by the very class of men it was intended to bar out. | Mr. Burns knows the combination and has everything | ready to use the caucus to accomplish that which it | was devised to prevent. The purpose of the caucus, not the caucus itself, was the good old Republican way, and in that way and purpose the party dcsires“ te walk now. The methods it devised as means to | reward the worthy being now invoked in behalf of | the unworthy, the party abides by its set pnrposei when it intermits the use of those means and seeks | | others for the protection of its hopor and the preser- vation of its character. | The party wants this Senatorial contest fought out | to the end in the presence of Burns’ friend, the liglu" of day. It wants to know who is now desirous of} Egning into a corner in secret to cast a caucus ballot | | for Burns which cannot be delivered in the light oi: day. The men who have such votes will put on the i party a grievous responsibility and lay wupon it al | heavy burden, and the party wants to know who they | are. If their work is done in a secret caucus this can- | not be known. The responsibility will be dodged by | them and put upon other shoulders. If they are | known the party can clean its hands by repudiating | them. If they are unknown it has no defense against | their act. | Therefore let the that is done from now until the end. BRYAN AND HIS PARTY LEADERS. OLONEL BRYAN and his party, although | C both are out of ‘practical politics at present, continue to be objects of interest to a consid- erable number of people. It is therefore worth noting that there is apparently a good deal of con- | fusion in the relations of the one to the othcr.} Judging from the reports that come to us from the | | East, it is not clear whether the Democratic leaders | who are loud in proclaiming their Bryanism intend t5 follow the Colonel or let him go alone. | Only a short time ago Senator James K. Jones, | chairman of the Democratic National Committee, scunded the keynote of the campaign of 1900, putting | Bryan to the front and calling upon a choice galaxy | of silverites to advance the interests of the Democratic | party along the lines of the Chicago platiorm. There | was enough Bryanism in the note to satisfy ‘the most | extreme partisan, and everything gave outward ev:{‘ dence of the most cordial relations between the party | and its gifted colonel. | A further expression of the same loyalty to the | platform and the man was made by Mr. Bailey of | Texas, Democratic leader in the House of Repre- | sentatives, in a speech on Washington's binhday.‘ In ringing tones he declared: “As certain as the | years go by and the great national convention re- assembles, we will set up the platform made in 1896, and in Bryan’s unsullied name will unfurl the banner as stainless as his life, and then the great commanders will give the orders, ‘Forward march,’ and it will be a march to victory.” Such is the style of language used by the Democrats in office when talking in public about their colonel who is out of office. In private, however, these same Jeaders are not so warm toward Bryan as to show | any large amount of steam when they meet him. A report from Washington informs us that on his re- cent visit to the Capitol the Colonel was very coldly received. The report says: “There was as much difference between Mr. Bryan's reception to-day and that of a few months ago, when he occupied the same seat in the Marble Room and told Democratic Senators how to vote on the peace treaty, as there is between daylight and darkness. Then men flocked about him like bees in a clover field. But to-day he was unnoticed. There was not that rush to shake his hand which was manifest some months ago. Senators did not hurry out of the chamber to see him and hear his advice, as they did then. Nor did they swarm about him as though he were a party Moses, as they once did. Not more than five Senators saw Mr. Bryan to-day, and he was in the Marble Room for more than an hour. Most of this time he was seated alone, way back in a dark corner, while crowds of people passed by and failed to notice him.” * \ When the practiced politicians at Washington ig- nore a former leader and do not even take the trouble to shake hands with him we may be sure the day of the eclipse of his leadership is near. That is why we ‘say the relations between Bryan and his party are con- fused. The talk in favor of the old ticket is as strong as ever, but since the party bosses no longer see him when he calls, the outlook for the Colonel is ominous. light of day shine on everything Morehouse and his kind must excuse the newspaper crowd for making remarks about them now. It isn't a capital offense yet, Sampson shows e:mc symptoms of having been lhom by his own petard, 2 U | enterprises of other sections. CONGRESS FAVORS EXPOSITIONS. NDER a suspensionsgf the rules, the House of Representatives on Thursday voted an appre- priation pf $500,000 each for the proposed Pan- American exposition to be held at Buffalo and the Ohio centennial, to be celebrated at Toledo. The fact that such measures passed the House by vir- tually unanimous approval is a proof that the value of expositions is now fully understood in the East, and that even the most economical Congressmen no longer regard expenditures for them as either a waste or an unwarranted use of money. In fact, it is only upon the Pacific Coast that expo- ons are not understood or their benefits duly ap- preciated. There has never been a really large ex- position on the coast, and our people have never had experience of their benefits. The greatest enterprise cof the kind ever attempted here was the Midwinter Fair, and that was prepared hastily and was never designed to be more than a Western exhibit of some of the display made at the World’s Fair in Chi- cago. That exposition, therefore, afforded no proper test of what expositions accomplish when planned on | a vast scale and elaborately worked out. As things near at home impress us more than greater things afar off, so a large number of Pacific Coast people judge all expositions by the results at- tained by the Midwinter Fair rather than by what has been accomplished by the more carefully worked out The tendency to form judgments in that way is natural, but it is not wise. The more sagacious plan would be to note the results flowing from expositions generally, and to learn from those who have had most experience in their conduct. In the East, where expositions on a large scale, prepared for through years of work, are common, public sentiment is well nigh unanimous in their fa- vor. While the Pacific Coast has never had an in- ternational exposition, or even a thoroughly com- prehensive American exposition, each of the great sections of the Eastern States has had several. Even in the South, where there are no large cities, where banking capital is scarce, there have been in recent years two such expositions, while in the richer and more populous North scarcely a year passes without seeing the opening of some enterprise of the kind. As a consequence of this ample experience, expo- | sitions are regarded in the East as the most profitable | method of advertising that a widespread community can devise. The experience has not been lost upon Congress, and accordingly appropriations for such en- terprises are now made willingly and liberally, as was shown by the action of the House on Thursday. It is safe to say that if the State Legislature had promptly voted the $300,000 required to assure the Pacific Coast Exposition in California, an equal sum would have been voted for it by Congress at the same time the“ppropriations were made for Buffalo and Toledo. We have lost something in point of time by the delay of the Legislature, but a State ap- propriation now will enable us to obtain a grant from Congress when it assembles this fall. The Legislature should profit by the example set at Washington, where the value of expositions is more fully under- stood than here. We can safely trust the business in- stincts of the East on subjects concerning which the East has ample experience and we have had none. SENATORS BY DIRECT VOTE. WO resolutions introduced into the Assembly Tby Mr. Caminetti of Amador relative to the election of United States Senators vote of the people have been adopted. One of them suggests the preparation of a memorial to the Legis- latures of the several States requesting them to pe- tition Congress to sybmit amendments to the na- tional constitution by which Senators may be elected by the people. The other requests Congress to call a national convention for the same purpose. Both resolutions were adopted by a vote of 54 to 9. The positive character of this vote shows that the same sentiment upon the Senatorial question prevails among the legislators as among the people. When « proposition calling for an expression upon the sub- ject was submitted to the electors of this State several years ago it received a 10 to 1 majority. The beg- | garly minority of 13,000 out of a total of nearly 200,000 ballots indicated that there was practically no sentiment in this State against the proposition. The remarkable thing about the action of the As- sembly, however, consists. in the fact that the propo- sition came before one of the very hq@ses whose pre- rogatives would be interfered with by the adoption of the proposed change. Yet the Assembly promptly registers the same sentiment. Of course many As- semblymen may have voted as they did believing it to be extremely improbable that their action would produce any effect, at least in their time; but we have no right to assume any such condition upon the face of the record. The fact is that fifty-four Assem- blymen out of eighty, or two-thirds of the most popular House of the Legislature, have voted to adopt two resolutions which, if carried into effect, would put an end forever to Senatorial legislative scandals. In the Senate it is quite likely that the majority will be as great. The Senators are older, more con- servative and more sensible. They certainly know that the present method of electing United States Senators is fruitful of scandal and corruption, and undoubtedly they have long since reached the con- clusion that a change is advisable. Nearly every re- flecting man in the country has reached this conclu- sion, and it would seem to be only a question of time when the reform must go into effect. Even . the United States Senate, the chief beneficiary of the present system, will agree to the change if the pres- sure becomes strong enough. & Ten policemen are necessary to keep order in the Colorado House of Representatives, and these fre- quently feel the need of calling for help. When Colo- rado statesmanship gets to working its natural im- plement is a sawed-off shotgun. Jesse James has been found not guilty of train rob- bery, although there was a firm belief that he could not be the son of his father and resist the temptation. Otherwise there seemed to be no evidence against him. 3 e e It may be remarked that there was never yet a rod of streetcar track laid except in the face of opposition from some quarter, and yet some of these tracks have been found useful. There is caution necessary in the running of trolley cars. There is also much buncombe in the portrayal of the car guided by a'skeleton and gliding through a heap of skulls. Even Italy is reaching out for a slice of China. Spain seems to be the only European power of any size not bent upon grand larceny, and Spain has to be gcod. Officials who brought about the convictior; of Dreyfus admit that they are rascals, but as this was tion, : known before, no new light'is shed upon the situ by direct | | | | Rent tw str | Balarfes—appointments by S GOSOONONN NN f=3-F-8-3-3=5=1 HIS LIVING architects, at a cost of $60,000. as cisco, is a benefaction as delicate erations. upon his fellow citizens, it would o o oot d 2 3-8 3 8-8-3-2-2-3-8-3-8=F-F:F-3-3-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F =] — That was a monument more enduring and incomparably more useful than any conceivable specimen of mere mortuary architec- ture which Mr. Claus Spreckels has provided for his memory in Golden Gate Park. His appropriation of a monumental structure for the purposes of a music stand, to be created by San Francisco cent. It is a premium and stimulus to art in California. will be forever, an agent for the cultivation of the popular taste, as well as a source of delight and esthetic benefit to the coming gen- Not the least of its benefits will be its influence as an object lesson and an inspiration to coming generations of wealthy Californians, for the most effective investment of thelr means for the higher pleasures and refinement of the public. Were this the only notable benefaction conferred by Mr. Claus Spreckels might envy and admire. and which the more affluent of them might do well to emulate.—Oakland Tribune. MONUMENT. o o o k=3 o =3 k=4 b a gift to the citizens of San Fran- and many-sided as it is munifi- It s, and available be a monument which all of them < L o b o o b= o o o bed o bod o o E=3 £ SUPERVISORS IN A MALE OF FIGURES Street Funds a Source of Trouble. SOME CREDITORS TO SUFFER| AUDITOR AND FINANCE COM- MITTEE DON'T AGREE. The Latter Promises to Approve Bills ‘ ‘Which Mr. Wells, Upon the Ad- vice of His Attorney, Will Not Audit. The Finance Committee of the Supervis- | ors made a determined effort yesterday to disentangle the knot into which the funds of the Street Department have been tied. After a discussion that extended over | several hours the committee decided upon | the following action: The members will | approve Janury bills amounting to_$i,- 000, and February bills to the amount of $23000. As against this $37.000 there are bills outstanding to the amount of $51,000. This leaves $14,00 of February bills un- | paid. | Although the Supervisors have deter- mined upon this action, they still have Auditor Asa R. Wells to deal with. Act-| ing upon the advice of his attorney, Mr. Wells has decided that he will not audit any bills for December or January until the close of the fiscal year. At that time there will, presumably, be a surplus in some funds which will be available for | any purpose to which the Supervisors may wish to apply it. He agreed to audic Street Department bills to the extent of $34.000 a month henceforth, as that is the amount allowed the department under the one-twelfth act. | Chiet_Deputy Donovan represented the Street Department at the committee meet- | ing. He was served with a notice by the | committee that the department must be | conducted during the month of March for $20,000. This was to Include all expenses material, labor, sweeping and contracts other than those specially provided for. Mr. Donovan at once threw down the gauntlet to the committee, saying it was fmpossible to do the work for that amount. He presented the following statement as to the monthly expenses of the department: Sweeping streets Repair of bitumen paveme) Buggy hire, head Buggy hi St nts.. t bri Repairs upery Coal and wood, Fourth-street bridge. Total 5 $19,603 | In addition to this he told of material required, such as pipe, gravel, brick, c ment, basalt blocks, lumber and also of repairs to streets in front of city prop-| erty. A low estimate of this, he said, wouid be $5000. This would all have to be | paid before one single laborer could be employed. He openly scoffed at the idea | as being ridiculous, and said he would pay no attention to it. Upon this showing the committee withdrew its notice. The $9000 a month allowed the department for | labor is said to be the lowest for many | vears. AS far back as December, 1877, the | department was allowed under the law | 100 men and twenty-five horses and cart Chairman Aigeltinger of the Street Com- | mittee was present during the session and | seconded Mr. Donovan's efforts to pre- vent what he termed the crippling of the department. IT WAS A RACE FOR LIFE. Remarkable Sivght W{tnessed by the | Oakland Ferry Passengers. = The passengers on one of the Oakland ferry boats were treated to an unmsual sight yesterday afternoon. P. H. Schiotz- | hauer of Dimond, Alameda Cougty, took on board five carrier pigeons, wlich he is training for a long flight from Oregon. | One of the lot, a beautiful carrier named Duke of Dimond, who has already flown home from Tehachapi, was among them in order to act as a gulde for the younger carrfers. As soon as the pigeons were lib- erated they mounted in circles in the air, heading generally toward the east. It was a pretty sight, and the passengers watched with interest the movements of the intelligent birds until they were a mile away. Suddenly what were supposed to be two of the pigeons were seen to be in rapld flight toward the ferry boat. On they came, as swift as the flight of an ar- row, and those who had good eyesight | saw that it was not two carriers, but one pigeon pursued by a savage hawk. The race for life was indeed exciting, and of course the sympathy was with the carrier. At times the hawk seemed to gain and again to lose. Strange to say the flight was in a direct line for the boat, the pur- sued seeming to know that there he had friends. When a hundred feet high and almost over the boat the carrier closed his wings and dropfled like a stone to the deck, with the hawk but a few feet away. Like a flash the carrier's wings were spread, a few feet above the upper deck, .and he gailed into a group of ladies, safe from_all harm. His pursuer retreated. The Duke was the hero of the remainder of the trip. e TUnclaimed Property. Chief Lees handed over to the City Au- ditor yesterday a lot of unclaimed prop- erty which had been in the custody of Property Clerk Moran. The articles in-| cluded all sorts of things, among them watches, purses, clothing, packages of pa- pers, hatchets, canes, umbrellas, razors, money, assorted knives, mirrors, over 100 revolvers, five bicycles and 163 dozen pocket knives. Combs, tooth, hair and clothes brushes, mirrors and perfumes at Sanborn & Vail's. » e e Teachers’ Warrants Ready Monday. Pay days come with greater frequency to the school teachers now that the dif- ferences over the salartes for the last two months of last year have been set- tled temporarily. Warrants for the Feb- ruary salaries are beinfi grepared as rap- | :&1 “lhlogo:,l‘lg}%naand wi le ready for dis- ay mi of Becretary Blmps%n. EHInE AT e —————— Lurline Salt Water Baths. Bush and Larkin sts, Swimming, Russian, n] S SEIA EP Puiihy s Waser ARGt Xrom acoan, | & Masonic _gathering, and wishing to do NOW HE WANTS T0 OBTAIN HIS PRESENTS BACK Nagle Has His Ex- Fiancee Arrested. A RING AND A CARBUNCLE RATHER MAKE HATS THAN MARRY THE ATTORNEY. Touching Tale of a Pretty Geary- Street Milliner and a Lawyer ‘Who Declares He Will Not Be Bunkoed. Attorney C. G. Nagle swore out a war- | rant for the arrest of Mrs. Lillie Rodgers | on the charge of felonious embezzlement | :n Judge Mogan's court yesterday morn- | ng. i So anxious was the friend of the Rev. C. | O. Brown that the arresting officer shouid make no mistake in the performance of | his duty that he accompanied the repre- | sentative of the law to the milliner's es- | tablishment on Geary street, and with his own well manicured but unfortunately | ringless finger pointed out the woman | whose detention he prayed the court to grant. According to the attorney, the offense | the hat maker is charged with is having | in her possession a garnet and diamond | ring that should be ornamenting the | Nagle digit. He clalms that he has tried many times and oft to regain possession | of his jewel, but on each and every occa- | sion was given the ha-ha by the merry milliner. | Nagle's story of the loss of his ornament is a touching tale of a story of unsophis- ticated man’s suffering; of how a carbun- | | cle proved the legitimate successor to the | much abused pleasant “procrastination’ proposition, and a final determined chyp- ter that should be entitled “I won't be bunkoed.” i Strangely enough, Mrs. Rodgers’ story | is diametrically opposed to the Nagle tale, and what he cites as facts the lady ridi- | cules and terms fiction. According to the | lady, she once honored the attorney by | considering herself his affianced wife, yet | according to Nagle there never was any | engagement existing between them. is a divorced woman and has a child, says the plaintiff. “My husband is dead and I have no family,” says the defend- | ant. 1f Nagle had not been addicted to carbuncles this trouble would have never | occurred. On the 20th day of November a_pretty red but unbecoming bud was preparing to blossom on the Nagle coun- tenance. As is the nature of its kind, the flowering was heralded by shooting pains, that made the wearer weak and helpless To stay his fainting spirit the attorney repaired to the Bay State oyster house, on Stockton street, and indulged in a “cup of tea and English chops.” Mrs. Rodgers was also present in the oyster house, ‘‘but she was not eating.” After his frugal re- past Nagle went to the telephone to sum- mon the doctor to ease his handsome face. He raised his hand to the instrument, Mrs. Rodgers saw the ring and—according to Nagle—that was the last he saw of it. “Mrs. Rodgers saw the ring while I was at the ‘phone,” the attorney explained, “and begged that I take it from my finger and let her examine it. I did so. I had | a chat with the doctor over the line, and | he asked me to come out to him. I pre- | pared to go, and as_I was leaving the | restaurant I said to Mrs. Rodgers, ‘Give me back my ring.’ She laughed, and said, ‘Later,’ and 1 went off. “Ahout four days after I was going to honor to the affair I thought 1 would wear my ring. So I called on Mrs. Rod- gers and asked her for it, but she said | she had mislaid it. The time went on, | and I made numerous demands for my jewel, but was always laughingly put off. | Finally I sent B. K. Collier to Mrs. Rod- | gers’ home at 3883 Twenty-third street, but he received no satisfaction. I had the | lady arrested this morning, not on ac-| count of the value of the ring, but I want to show her she can’t bunko me. *“‘Once when I told her unless she re- turned me the ring I should have her ar- rested she laughed and said, ‘You are too prominent a man to dare to have a woman arrested.” " Nagle claims that he first met the mil- liner a year ago last November in a pro- fessional way, and that at that time th lady was betrothed to the Rev. N. J. B. Schultz, a Unitarian minister. He further states that she is the divorced wife of Joserty Rodgers of Hanford, that he has never been engaged to marry the lady and that at the present time she is receiving the attentions of Harry R. Fee, a clerk in the San Francisto Trading Stamp Com- pany. After her arrest, while waiting in‘the City Prison for the bonds that would re- lease her, the milliner made the following statement: ‘I was engaged to be married to Attor- ney Nagle, and kept company with him for twelve months. I then gave him up and started in business. I know nothing about his ring. I was very much sur- prised when Nagle and a policeman came into my store this morning and told me I Wgrl;]under arrest.” e statement that she was a_divor and had been betrothed to the Rev. ]sle: Slc!:iullz Mrs. Rodgers emphatically de- nied. The case will come up for trial this morning at 10 o'clock before Judge Mogan. “YOU’RE NO GENTLEMAN.” Warm Words Bandied Between an Acting Police Judge and an Attorney. The alr in acting Police Judge H courtroom was full of sulphurgiorB:n;zv: minutes yesterday morning while the case of Cash Crosby, charged with vagrancy, was being heard. Crosby is a “stall” for female pickpockets, and had haunted the Judge's courtroom, intimldating a young girl charged with grand larceny till the Judge ordered him into custody on a c}:‘n{tge of vP nl-ncy. orney Pistolesi appeared f and soon he and the Edn be:n;%;u.&z change uncomplimentary remarks. The Judge threatened to puf Pistolesi in jail, and the attorney retorted that he could gut the Juqu in jall. Then each said the ther was “no gentleman,” and from the loud tones of their voices people in the | Banta_Fe Route. corridor thought a fight was on. e Judge convicted Crosby and to appear for sentence to-dn.;.m:ll;‘lghhlla % & gea Aeatlluies, and £he ntempt of cour! into custody for AROUND THE * CORRIDORS. W. A. Jackson of Los Angeles is at the California. Leslie W. Satterlee, a Tacoma banker, is at the Palace. Mayor Charles Francee of Sallnas is a guest at the Grand. Dr. J. W. Stitt of Vacaville is one of the guests at the Palace. H. J. Sheafe, a prominent Seattle citi- zen, Is registered at the Lick. J. Frye, a leading merchant of Ruther- ford, Napa County, is located at the Russ. Willlam H. Devlin, a prominent Sacra- mento attorney, is registered at the Lick. B. S. Seaborg and wife of Portland, Or., are late arrivals at the California. W. J. Moore, a member of the Chicago Board of Trade, is staying at the Palace. John Philip Sousa, the noted band mas- ter and opera composer, is at the Palace. Bank Commissioner John Markley of Geyserville is one of the arrivals at the Lick. William A. Spinks, the expert billiard- ist, 18 at present located at the Pleas- anton. Edward Frezel, a mining man of Towles, is making the Russ his head- quarters. W. S. Godbe, a mining man of Salt Lake, is at the Occidental, accompanied by his wife, C. L. Ruggles, of the Stockton Independent, Grand for a brief stay. Joseph E. Bidwell, Warehouse Commissioner of Chicago, at the Occldetital with his wife. Mrs. John Illingworth and her daugh- ter, Miss Ida, of Newark, N. J., have taken apartments at the Palace. Dr. Leon F. Harvey of Denver is visit- ing the coast with his wife. They have engaged rooms at the Occidental. Dr. A. E. Osborne, superintendent of the Eldridge Home for the Feeble Minded, is registered at the Grand with his wife. H. MecIntosh, president of the Fruit Producers’ Association of Chicago, and who owns 50,000 acres of mountain land in this State, is staying at the Palace. —_————————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, March 3.—Representa- tive-elect Metcalf, who succeeds Mr. Hil- born in the Third California District, is here to witness the closing scenes in Con- gress. He is at the Arlington Hotel. L. S. Sayers of Los Angeles is at the Shore- ham. one of the proprietors is at the a Railroad and is — —ee———— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, March 3—S8. D. Marrion of San Francisco is at the Cosmopolitan. Miss M. B. Jones of San Francisco is at the Brevoort. W. J. Cox of Los Angeles is at the Normandie. — e e————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. SPEECHES.—C. H. A., Volcano, Cal. If | you desire copies of speeches of Senator Hoar and Senator Platt on the subject of annexation of the Philippine Islands, ad- dress a communication to the member of Congress from your district telling him | what you wish. GENERAL OTIS.—E. W. 8., city. The General Otis in command at Manila, Phil- ippine Islands, is not Brigadier General Otis, late of the city of Los Angeles, and publisher of the Times, of that city. The former is of the regular army, while the latter is an officer of the volunteers. JOWA BAND MUSIC—L. A., City. There is no record here of the music that was plaved by the Iowa Regiment band in the Mechanics’ Pavillon shortly before the departure of the regiment for Manila. If you will address a letter to the band leader at Manila, P. L, he will be able to furnish the desired information. PAYING FARE—S. City. This cor- respondent asks: “What is proper, in case & man has seated himself in a street car, paid his fare, then gives up his seat to a lady with whom he is acquainted. Shall he pay her fare or permit her to pay it?” As a rule it is well for each erson to pay his or her own fare. There < then no feeling of obligation on either side, and there fs mo necessity to keep the ‘conductor_waiting while the parties argue as to the desire to pay the fare. While in the case stated it would be per- fectly proper for the man to pay the lady’s fare, it would not be a breach of etiquette if he did not pay it. . CONSTABLE AND POLICEMAN-—J. W. L. T., Isleton, Sacramento County, Cal. In the United States a constable is an official of a village or town elected with other local officers or is a special official under temporary appointment. A police officer 1s a member of an organized police force of a city?and differs from a constable in this that he is appointed and not elected. Both are peace officers. The constable i$ empowered to serve legal pro- cesses of minor importance, while the po- lice officer is empowered to serve all pro- cesses of a court having jurisdiction over criminal matters, except those which be- long particularly to the Sheriff. 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