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

' THE SAN FRANCISCO CAL'L, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1899. Tall .MARCH 8, 1899 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. g Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. | serts SIS testis St v N TR PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS. ...217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 DELIVERED BY CARRIERS. 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Eingle Coples, 5 cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), § months. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 3 month: ILY CALL—By je Month, CALL Year.. Y CALL, One Year. All postmasters authorized to recelve subscriptions. fample coples will be forwarded when requested. S| OAKLAND OFFICE vevree...-908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE ..Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative, WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE... .Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Corrcspondent. Marquette Building ing Representative. CHICAGO OFFICE... C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advert BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, | open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until | $:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open uqkl! 9:30 | o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:3G o'clock. 941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh strect, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street. open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ang Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. sa’s Concerts, Friday, March 10. out li—'‘La Belle Helene.” California — udeville. A Man With a Past.” Dewey, the Hero of Manila.” Grand Opera House—Ellls Opera Company, Monday even- ing, March 13 Chutes and Zoo—Planka, the “Lady of Lions.” Olympia—Corner Mason and Ellis streets, Specialties. Central Park—The Steeplechase. AUCTION SALES. By A. W. Louderback—Thi at 10:30 a. m., and 2:30 p. m., Turkish Rugs, at 123 Geary street. THE END OF AN EVIL RE is every reason to suppose that racing, has degenerated in this community into s form of gambling, is about to be de- prived of its power for ill. There is firm ground for the hope that the bookmaker, into whose hands daily been passing thousands of dollars, some of 7, much of it representing the earnings of ve to seek other fields in which to ply San Francisco has stood the drain too there it stol dupes, w their vocation. | climbed thus far out of the mire in which they appear | Their only watchword is “Burns,” and the only oll\efl ng calmly endured the spectacle of | en being wrecked morally and finan- | enefit of the promoters of “sport,” and | ants and touts. | as been thoroughly exploited. nd too long, subject I | been told again and again in the records | nd the Morgue. It has been told in a embezzlements, betrayals of trust, sun- dered , suicides and murder. No defense can be made of the sort of racing permitted at Ingleside. amble, with the percentage all in f 1t is simply vor of the professional gambler. The owners of horses will still be allowed te hold speed contests for purses, and if they are sincere in their assertion that | they me: ¢ to encourage the breeding of goonl-; have no r on to complain. Indeed, tently aid the reform, since one will be to make their calling respectable. ority of the Board of Supervisors is to be The ten members have shown a keen 1 of the demand for radical reform, and lertaken a task which will incur | of an element heretofore wont to have boldly m the en u mit believe itself all-powerful. Ingleside ra holy perquisites to nail up the gate and go to ( 1. Perhaps this is a bluff; if not, | it is hard luck for Oakland. They will be obliged to make a threat more dire than this before San Fran- their present u cisco will get scared COLLAPSE OF A4 BOODLE BOOM. HERE is a point in all speculation beyond which T t is dangerous to go. A steady supply equal to the demand always tends to maintain prices and keep the market constantly in a healthy and receptive condition, whereas the moment speculators attempt to force prices up or down clouds overspread the hori- zon, squalls break, hurricaned gather and everything goes to smash. The causes of these commercial phe- nomena are overproduction, oversupply, fictitious prices or the creation of a market in which nobody has confidence. The commercial law here imperfectly described ap- plies to legislative boodling as well as to the ordinary boodling of commerce. The maxim deduced might be stated thus: Even political boodling has a boom point beyond which it is dangerous to go. The latest illustration of the operation of the law is found in Oakland The Common Council of that city had a good thing ! in the Contra Costa and Oakland water companies. These corporations have shown on numerous occa- sions that rather than have their rates “regulated” under the February provisions of the constitution they would come down handsomely, or, as it is expressed in QOakland circles, “put up” gorgeously. Successive Common Councils have worked the Alameda water lords out of many an easily carned dollar, and fixing water rates annually has long been considered a profit- able perquisite by the bosses, political parasites and blackmailers of the coast Athens. But according to all accounts the boodlers this year have overdone the business; ' in fact, they have forced the price of votes for fixing rates beyond the boom point, and consequently have not only demoralized the market, but completely destroyed it. The mani- pulators who set out to make the two corporations “come down” or “put up”’—whichever you please— were on Monday thrown into confusion by the ac- ceptance by the corporations of what is designated in water circles throughout the State as the “minority order!” This schedule was framed by Councilman Upton, and on being put upon its passage wag adopted by a vote of 8 to 3—three Councilmen friendly to the water companies having been directed by them to vote for it: Thus the water lords escaped the clutches of the politicians and demonstrated once more that even boodling can be overworked. There is but one conclusion to be drawn from the facts of this case—the price demanded by the water rate fixers must have been terrifying. Otherwise the corporations would never have considered the Upton ordinance. Were the boodlers misled by the dry year? Something must have inspired the extraor- dinary confidence which they displayed. | ants in the office of District Attorney, one at $1200 etrack proprictors threaten if bereft of | §! COME TO THE POINT. T is impossible to bring the supporters of Dan l Burns to a point, because they have no point that will bear publicity. An admission on their part that there is any standard by which a candidate | for the Senate of the United States should be tested | would show a little respect for the public. Then, if they would concede that the standard ought to com- | prise brains, education, knowledge, experience and integrity, a further step would be gained. If they | to be stuck they might probably acknowledge that the | manipulation of unclean politics, State or municipal, is an unseemly preparation for the consideration and settlement of great national affairs. By this time | they would have almost reached the level of practical citizenship of a comparatively decent type, although they would still fall short of the lofty ideals of Ameri- can statesmanship. There would remain only two questions to be settled—first, has Burns any of the qualifications enumerated? and, second, is not the conceded disqualification the sole claim that has been advanced on his behalf? But, compared to the Burns touts, who have lost | their sensibility and their senses by riding on rail- | road tracks, the hide of the hippopotamus is thin, | the hearing of the adder acute and the vision of the mole sharp. They are equally stolid and impervious. word they know in its full signification is “Boodle.” Party names, still more political principles, for them have no meaning. The voice of the people may swell | to a roar, but it will not disturb their equanimity. | Patriotism and Americanism are as alien to them as | virtue to a courtesan or the sanctity of an altar to the | inmate of a dive. There is no remedy, therefore, but to batter these political Filipinos back to the brush from which they emerged, and this unpleasant labor cannot be done by the press alone. Citizens and their chosen repre- sentatives must finish the job. They at least are not bent on satiating personal malice by disguising a railroad saint as a political sinner. They are not jealous proprietors of obstreperous newspapers that meanly advocate political decency and the preserva- tion of the honor of the State. Nominally they own | the State, and they really Mave its fame and its in- terests in their keeping. They have some right to in- quire who Dan Burns is and what he has ever said or done, what qualities or associations he has that re- lieve his pretensions from sheer audacity. They may be permitted to insist that a railroad tool, with the reputation of a defaulter, with a name at once mentally blank and morally malodorous, has no vested right or itle, merely because of these facts, to a Federal Sen- atorship. They may even be pardoned for concentrat- ing their influence and their votes upon the prompt election of a Republican, a statesman and a gcmle-} man. THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT BILL. RGUMENTS presented by the delegation of citizens from Santa Clara County against the | county government bill are sufficiently strong to justify its rejection, even if not another county | uttered. They were made up of plain statements of | the effects the bill would have upon the government | of Santa Clara County itself, and they have (hcrcl’ore! all the force of stubborn facts not to be gainsaid or | ignored. | The Santa Clara men, several of whom are county | officials, pointed out that the bill if enacted will in- | crease the cost of government in their county by up- 1 ward of $50,000 a year without in any way increasing the effectiveness of the administration of county af- fairs or promoting the general good. The statement | was supported by an analysis of the various ways by which the cost of government would be atgmented. From the showing thus made it appears the cost of county government in Santa Clara would be increased by the salary of a clerk of Board of Supervisors $125 a month, a Deputy Sheriff $1800 a year, a Li- cense Collector $150 a month; two additional assist- nd the other at $1500 a year; a Deputy County Sur- | veyor at $1000 a year; and. furthermore, the Sheriff | is to have additional fees and the Surveyor is to have besideg his deputy such other assistance as may be | necessary. | It must be borne in mind that the county has aI-{ ready a Supervisors’ clerk, a Deputy Sheriff, a License | Collector, and the District Attorney has two assist- | ants in his office. The proposed additions will there- } fore add nothing to the service of the county. Their | effect will be merely the creation of new salaries. ! There are, moreover, other objections to the bill. ‘ Under it Township Justices are to receive $150 a | month and be furnished with an office and a clerk at | $75 a month; constables are to receive $125 a month | and free office room; Supervisors are to be author- | ized to let contracts for bridge building without call- | irg for bids, and are to have control of all county | printing. } Such would be some of the effects of the proposed | bill upon counties of the class to which Santa Clara! belongs. It is not strange, therefore, that her press | and her people should protest against it. It might | well be entitled a bill to increase the number of | county officers, the rate of salaries and the burden of | taxation. | The people of Santa Clara deserve credit for the | attention they have given this subject and the vigori with which they have opposed it. If in every part of | the State the citizens were equally vigilant and atten- tive to public matters California would be much bet- | ter governed than it is. After all the people of a free country generally get the kind of legislation they de- serve, and Santa Clara clearly merits a good govern- ment, for she has shown a willingness to study public | affairs and to work for economy, both at home and at | Sacramento. WAR CONGRESS APPROPRIATIONS. R. CANNON'S statement of the causes lead- | /V\ ing to the enormous appropriations made by | the late Congress is in the main sufficiently | satisfactory to offset any objections that may be urged | either by the partisans of the- opposition or by ex- treme economists. The Republican party can safely | support the work of the war Congress before the peo- | ple, and with justice ask popular approval of almost every item of the vast expenditure, which in the ag- gregate amounted to more than a billion and a half of dollars. ; There were two items of increased expenditure, | however, which the intelligence of the country will not approve. The fitst of these is the increase in pensions over those of last year to the amount of $4,000,000, and the second is the increase over last year of $16,000,000 for the postal service. In neither of these items should there have been any material increase of expenditure whatever. On the contrary, the country had a reasonable right to expect a de- crease in each. The war with Spain has of course added to the names on the pension roll, and the nation does not grudge one dollar of expense thus honorably imposed S with the results attained by the friends of the mea- | | will indefinitely postpone action. | poolroom purposes. upon the taxpayers. But there should be a decrease in the former pension rolls. The Civil War closed thirty-five years ago, and yet the number of pen- sioners claiming pensions for service in that war con- tinues to increase, and the end is not yet. That some- thing of fraud exists in this condition of affairs is beyond question, and the Republican party, whose loyalty to the veterans who followed Grant and sup- ported Lincoln in the war for the Union is. not doubted, should undertake the work of purging the pension lists of dishonest claimants and make it what it should be—a roll of honor for the deserving brave. For the increased expenditure for the Postoffice there is no justification whatever. The postal ser- vice in Great Britain, in France and in Germany is scli-supporting, and even yields a revenue to the state. There is no reason why similar results should not be obtained in this country. Congressman Loud, chairman of the Postal Committee of the House, has repeatedly urged a reform in the service which would greatly diminish the expenditures and get rid of the deficit. failed, and as a result every increase in the business of the Postoffice is followed by an increase of the de- ficit. With ‘the exception of the items noted, the appro- priation bills of the war Congress will stand the test of popular judgment. We have fought a great na- tion and conducted a war on both sides the, globe without pausing in our work of internal improvements or checking in any way our ordinary expenditures for the upbuilding of the republic. The burden has been vast, but upon the mass of the people it sits so lightly it is hardly noted. Speaker Reed once answered the | © attacks of the opposition upon the liberal appropria- tions of the Fifty-first Congress, with the epigran:, “This is a billion dollar country.” He can now say it is growing fast to be a two billion dollar country and the people stay with it. THE NICARAGUA CANAL. ENATOR MORGAN, the sincerity of whose support of the Nicaragua canal project is not to be doubted, is reported to be well satisfied sure in the late Congress. A letter attributed to him says: “The earnest and patriotic purpose of the President to construct a canal has been responded to by Congress in a decisive and cénclusive way, and the foundation has been laid, which will never be shaken, for this work of universal benefaction.” It is to be hoped this sanguine view of the situation is correct, for it is much more hopeful than that taken by the public. Despite the high authority of the Sen- ator, however, there will be widespread doubt of its correctness. The Senator is growing old and has acquired a habit of seeing things as he desires them rather than as they are. It is possible, and even prob- able, that in this case, as in many others, he has per- | mitted the wish to be father to the thought, and in- dulges the belief that he has accomplished much for the canal, when as a matter of fact the enterprise has | | been stalled for years to come. Congress voted an appropriation for a survey of | all the suggested routes for the canal, but not a dollar for beginning construction on any of them. Under The | made a protest or not another word of opposition was | the act the commission charged with the survey will have to report upon the Panama route as well as upon that of Nicaragua. This on the face of it is a victory | for the Panama Company. Their project now stands on the same footing with that of Nicaragua, and an opportunity is afforded them to make a strong fight when the next Congress meets. With two projects undgr discussion it will be easy for the opponents of the measure to set up one against the other and thus provoke a rivalry which If public sentiment becomes divided as to which rolte would be the bet- ter, there will be an inevitable weakening of the forces in favor of a canal, while the antagonists of the enterprise will remain as firmly united as ever, and have the further advantage of pretending to support one project or the other, while really preventing the | adoption of either. We have seen such tactics employed with success for a good many years by the opposition to the pro- posed reforms in the postal regulations designed to make the service self-supporting. Two plans were advanced in the late Congress for that purpose—one proposed to check the abuse of the second class mail | privilege, which entails such a heavy expense upon the | the service; the other proposed to reduce amounts paid to the railroads for carrying the mails. The adoption of cither of these would have resulted in a saving sufficient to put an end to the annual deficit in the Postoffice Department. When the first plan was submitted to the House, however, it was defeated by men who said they pre- ferred the second plan. When the second was sub- mitted it was defeated by men®who declared them- selves in favor of the first plan. Thus nearly every member of Congress made a record in favor of pro- viding a remedy for abuses in the postal service and establishing the service on an economical basis, and yet nothing was accomplished. Congress, it appears, was well nigh unanimous that something should be done, and equally unanimous in resolving not to do it. There is a danger that such tactics will_ now be used against the canal enterprise. The friends of Panama will vote against Nicaragua, and the friends of Nicaragua will oppose Panama. Such is the situation as it appears to-day, and it behooves the real ad- vocates of the enterprise to be active and vigilant, or | the results in the next Congress will be only another postponement and an appropriation for another survey. One of the Supervisors declared in open session | that he was not acquainted with “Colonel Mazuma,” which, so far as any personal relations with him are concerned, might easily be true. But Colonel Mazuma has a right to feel offended to learn that his identity is unknown to any citizen of California. Rev. Dr. Brown explains that he never denounced Dan Burns, but that, on the contrary, he admires the gentleman from Mexico. We freely add the informa- tion that the Brown in question is not the one of Overman fame. “Smiling” Billy Hamilton now has to do the work which the Government pays him for doing, and his smile is only a memory. It was the Hamilton idea to draw a salary and put in his time whooping things up for Burns. oS There is a familiar aspect about the proposition to build a hospital for the city and county to take the place of the rickety thing which now insults the in- digent citizen. Such a rumor is always in order. O e California will be glad to congratulate Shafter upon being made a major-general, but it was a cruel blow for the Examiner. _Announcemgnt is made that Alger is coming to this coast. His reception will depend upon whether he shall come before or after resignation. ; Reports that Fitzsimmons has a bad elbow do not interest the public much, but may be valuable for 5, S ery effort in that direction, however, has | OO0O000000000000C0000000000000D00000000000 | | dollars to this city and State. | facilities of the northern route over which MILLIONS WILL BE SAVED T0 CALIFORNIA Government Secures a Good Dock. SEATTLE A LIVELY RIVAL TIMELY ACTION OF THE HAR- BOR COMMISSIONERS. Fremont Street Wharf to Be Trans. formed Into a Covered Pier for the Use of the Transports. 9oe08000000000000 o IMMENSE TRAFFIC - ASSURED THIS PORT At a meeting of the Harbor Com- missioners held yesterday actlon was taken by them which insures the ample accommodation for all transports anda similar vessels in the service of the Government on the Pacifi The Government has | vicinity been seeking for a covered dock, and this will now be furnished to- gether with all needed facilities. The commission adopted a reso- lution, instructing the Chief Engi- neer to prepare plans and specifi- cations for transforming Frémont strect wharf into a covered dock, work to be consummated with the possible delay. This wharf is 100 feet wide, is in excellent con- dition, being constructed of built up piles, and is desirably located, being adjacent to the Mail dock and in proximity to the Southern Pa- cific Railway and Santa Fe Rall- way, the terminus of which will be at Main street. When the work on Fremont street wharf is completed the Har-" bor Commissioners will then either assign the same to the Govern- ment transports or transfer the Alaska Commercial Company and the Alaska Packers' Association, at present occupying Folsom street wharf, to it, in which event the Government transports will be as- signed to Folsom street dock. Both Folsom and Fremont strect docks are desirable for either,service. O0000000000000000000000000000000000000000200CC '000000000000000000{" A speclal committee of the Manufactur- er: and Producers’ Association was Bt’ work yesterday upon matter that | meant the gain or loss of millions of | Some time | ago Colonel Long of the quartermaster’s | department, whose special business for a | vear or more has been to furnish supplies | and fit out the Government transports for Uncle Sam, requested of the State Harbor Commissioners a suitable place for the docking of vessels under his charge. He represented that suitable | docking facilities are absolutely necessary in order to meet the demands of the Go ernment in dispatching the - transports | that carry provisions, munitions of war | and soldiers to the Pacific squadron in | Manila as well as the other parts of the | Western ocean. | Colonel Long called particular attention | to the fact that in the past he has fitted | out these expeditions at great inconveni- | ence to himself and the department. That | was during the emergencies of the late | war, when it was necessary to make the | best of everything. | Recent developments indicate that the| United States will continue to hold many or possibly all of the new Pacific posses- | sions and that there will be a large| amount of shipping by the Government | from this side of the continent to the Orient. Hence, sultable docking facilities | are an absolute necessity. | The officers of the Manufacturers’ and | Producers’ Association were stirred to | quick action yesterday by the information | that Seattle is making an effort to draw | the Government supply department away | from San Francisco and install it in the | Puget Sound city. A short time ago the Secattle Chamber of Commerce heid a| meeting and discussed the request-of Col- onel Long made to the California State officers. The result of that meeting was | telegraphed to the department at Wash- ington and to Colonel Long. It was noth- ing less than an offer tu] the Government the, the granting of dockage and department of free every concession _that > would ask if the Pacific base of supplies would be moved from Francisco_to | Seattle. Attention was called to the fine harbor of the north and to the railroad | munitions and supplies obtained in the | East could be shipped to that port. The local manufacturers detemined that the advantage already gained by San Francisco could not properly be allowed to be lost. A meeting was therefore held vesterday and the situation was thor- oughly discussed. The argument was pre- sented that this port is the best adapted to the shipping of supplies in the Pacific, being centrally situated. The department is already located here, and the benefits to the State received during the past few months show that during the late war supplies of various kinds amounting to about two and a half million dollars were purchased here, and since then much more Government money has found its way into | the pockets of local manufacturers. With purchases already made and goods sent | from the East, aside from ammunition, the Government has shipped from the port of San Francisco cargoes valued at over eight million dollars. To permit such a trade to go elsewhere would be commercial suicide, and a com- mittee, consisting of J. W. Kerr and| Manager Goodwin, started out for Colonel TLong, with whom a conference was held, and later a visit was paid to the Harbor Commissioners. The result of their efforts, as shown by the foregoing, was most sat- isfactory, and at the next meeting they will report that the patronage of the Government has been saved to_this city through the timely action of the Manufac- turers’ Assoclation and the Harbor Com- missioners. A BIG MINING CONiBINE. Alfred B. Adams, Mexican Mine Pro- moter, Tells of Rich Ledges. Alfred B. Adams, who has been in Mex- ico for the past four years endeavoring to consolidate vast mining properties in Durango, arrived here yesterday and is registered at the Occidental. He has finally succeeded in his efforts, and the re- sult is the formation of a company called the Consolidated Mines of Copalquin, of which he is _the director general. He is here to get bids on an extensive electric machinery plant with which the mines will be equipped. ““This company,” said Mr. Adams, ‘has been incorporated under the laws of New Jersey and Mexico, and we have letters patent from the latter Government for twenty-seven large mines. For two years 1 have worked to bring about the consoli- dation of valuable properties, and found it a difficult task owing to the disinclina- tion of the natives to work their mines in other but the crude way. Finally the De la Rocha family, who own the larger portion of the claims, agreed to the” combination. “Principal among the mines is the El Refugio, which was discovered in 1849. Even with the primitlve methods em- ployed by the natives a fabulous amount of gold and silver has been extracted. Over a million dollars in bullion has been sent to the Mint here during the last five e are £0.000 | of Education. | low it until some one guilty tons of ore in)be given. sight, which runs $2737 to the ton. It is free milling ore and the ordinary stamp mill process is used entirely. “There are fifteen stamp mills now op- erated by water power. At the junction of the Limon and Copalquin rivers, which flow through the properties, we will erect the electric plant, for which I have come to this country fo negotiate. The com- pany was capitalized at $1,000,000, and the native owners were given stock to the value of thelr holdings. Everything {s now in legal shape under thelawsof both the United States and Mexican Govern- ments. 1 will return to Mexico in three weeks, and after the machinery has been constructed I may proceed to London and consider offers from various syndicates.” —_—————————— MATTERS IN THE MISSION. The Valencia Street Residents Want a Bitumen Pavement. The first matter that came before thei Mission Business Men's Association which met at 465 Valencia street last Mon- day evening, was the paving of that prom- | nent thoroughfare. A petition containing over 600 names will be presented to the Supervisors asking that bitumen may take the place of the uneven stones that dis- figure the most important street in the | | Secretary Harrison of | district. the association reported a wrecked sewer at Army reet and Potrero avenue wa making a malaria-breeding pond in that Mission Mes: that Manager Vining had no intention of taking the cable cars off Twenty-fourth street and operating the Howard street cars on Twenty-sixth street. It is the in- tention of the railroad company to change the Howard street cable system to an electric line. If it be decided to run the Sixth street line down Post from Taylor to Montgomery it will be the means of hastening the reconstruction of the entire | ! Post street system. It is contemplated to change the Sansome stems to by the compan and Montgomery street horse s, trolleys. . d’Artenay and Wynne reported | The Outpost was made the official organ | of the Mission Business Men's Association, and Secretary Ham n, its editor and publisher, put under salary HEALTH BOARD WILL MAINTAIN QUARANTINE Claims It Represents the State. RESPONSIBLE TO THE PEOPLE CONTINUES IN OPPOSITION TO FEDERAL AUTHORITIES. Secertary Dunne Ordered to Frame & New Urdinance Regulating the Swab Test in Cases of Diphtheria. The Board of Health of this city at a speclal and secret meeting on Monday evening determined that it was the duty of the board to maintain its quarantine service. By a recent decision of the Su- perior Court it was held that the Federal law providing for a quarantine service superseded the State law. This legislated | Dr. Chalmers, the State official, outsof In the future the association will meet | every Monday night in M on rein Hall on Eighteenth street, between Valencia and Guerrero. GRAND JURORS AFTER THE SCHOOL DIRECTORS EXPERT DUNN INVESTIGATES | SOME OLD ACCOUNTS. Differences Found Between the Books of the Board and the Records of the Auditor’s Office. Expert Dunn of the Grand Jury is com- paring the acounts of the Schoel Depart- | ment with the books in the Auditor's of- fice. D repancies have been found be- tween the books of the department and those of the Auditor that promise much for the investigating body. Since the members of the jury assumed Turn Ve- | office. The court held that the quarantine of- | ficial appointed by the United States Gov- | their duties they have shown an anxlety | to lay bare the rascality of the last Board | All they have asked for was a clew that would place them upon the right trail, and they promised to fol- of maifea- sance in office was exposed. The members intimate that the present clew is a warm one and that sensational develop- ments may be expected if indications are | to count for anything. ‘Auditor Wells placed all the records of his office at the disposal of the inquisi- torfal body. In addition, he volunteered his own services to unearth any double dealing that resulted in loss to the city. It is expected that Expert Dunn will be prepared to make a progressive report at the meeting of the Grand Jury to-morrow. AROUND THE CORRIDORS Samuel Matthews, a cattleman of Sa- linas, is at the Russ. Thomas Sperks, Postmaster of Sacra- mento, is at the Lick. J. Wells Smith, a Denver mining man, is a guest at the Palace. B. B. McGinnis, a Hanford merchant, is a late arrival at the Lick. Isadore Lowenthal, a business man of Los Angeles, is at the Lick. W. T. Smith, a merchant of Elko, Ne- vada, is a guest at the Palace. J. H. Heinborn, a merchant of Santa Rosa, is staying at the California. J. P. Diggs, an extensive land owner of Woodland, is located at the Grand. James W. Minturn, a rancher of Min- turn, is one of the guests at the Palace. George F. Willis, a cattle raiser of In- dependence, Yolo County, is at the Russ. J. Haslacher and wife of Oakdale are here on a pleasure trip and are registered at the California. George H. Macy of New York has en- gaged rooms at the Palace and s accom- panied by his wife, son and daughter. George C. Turner, chief engineer of the Stockton water works, came down for a short stay and is registered at the Grand. | H. Irish, a prominent business man of Santa Cruz, and C. A. Campbell, a Red Bluff merchant, are among the arrivals at the Grand. Dr. F. Ziegfeld, president of the CHi- cago Musical College, returned yesterday from Monterey with his wife and regis- tered at the Palace. The institution over which he presides is the largest in the world, and at present is educating 2500 students. —_——— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, March 7.—George H. Maxwell of San Francisco is at the Hol- land; D. J. Medbury of San Francisco is at the Netherland; O. W. Barrett of Los Angeles is at the Imperial; W. H. Smith of San Francisco is at the Vendome; Charles B. Pratt of San Francisco is at the Manhattan. —_——————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, March 7.—Hon. Victor Metcalf left or home after a pleasant visit of a week in Washington. Senator Perkins will remain here about one week and Mr. Leoud several weeks. Repre- sentative De Vries went to Philadeiphia to-day and will return to-morrow and leave immediately for home. —_————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE 0AKLAND——~P?H., City. The ferry boat Oakland was built on the Oak- | land shore in 1875 specially for the Oak- land and San Francisco ferry service. The vessel was never engaged in the Sacra- | mento River service. SAN FRANCISCO AND HONGKONG— C. T., City. The steamers of the Pacific Mail line, plying between this city and Hongkong, usually occupy seventy days in making the round grip, including stop- pase. the longest being ten days at ongkong. If the trip is by way of Hon- olulu there is a detention of about twen- ty-four hours at that place, the same at Yokohama, twelve hours at Kobe, twenty- s an i Bours et gl the time stated at HANDKERCHIEF FLIRTATION—P. ‘W. T., Sacraigento, Cal. This department has found matter relating to “stamp flir- tation,” “flower flirtation” and other nonsensical modes of flirtation, but noth- Ing on *“handkerchief flirtation.” If a man has anything to say to a girl he should have the courage to speak to her and not resort to the swinging of handkerchiefs, the placing of stamps in particular posi- gggs;{nnflhtle“ o_;hmak(ng up a combina- owers. stand what is meané Sk oay g under PROTESTANT AND CATHOLIC.—W. H. K., city. The question, *“‘Are there more Protestant than Roman Catholic people in the United States?” is one that :alxlxl h: answered only if the correspondent e more explicit in what h by the word ‘‘Protestant.”” The agh:‘ree?\r:: of Luther are the Protestants In the r stricted sense, while all Christian denom- Inations that differ from the Church of Rome are Protestants in the general sense. If the correspondent will state Wwhat he wants to know the answer will A | made for- Jjurisdiction It ernment had over eign vessels entering this port. was determined to appeal from this Gecision. The members claim they are held responsible for the health of the city and that it would not become them | to neglect so potent a factor in the dis- semination cf discase germs as vessels from foreign ports could be. If a plague | was spread here the people would hold | the board responsibie. be The Quarantine Department will have maintained until the matter shali been finally adjusted. The Mahoney case was discussed in all its bearin, This is the one in which it was decided by the court that th dinance requiring the swab test in c of diphtheria applied to suspected only and not to those where the d was known to exist. Secretary or- Dunne was instructed to frame a new ordinance correcting the defect in the present one. The members of the board believe the swab test must be enforced to preserve the health of the children. Dr. J. Crowley was appointed an ex- terne to the polyclinic ward, City and County Hospital i Walter Fox was appointed night watch- man at the Almshouse. z : Fred Ruddock was appointed night watchman at the Twenty-sixth -Street Hospital—the Pesthouse. Miss Nellie F. Wynne and Mrs. Ellen Swett, matrons at the Park Emergency Hospit had their former salaries re- tored. They were reduced from $60 to 50 at the January meeting, The faculty of Cooper Medical College recommended as internes at the City and County Hospital for a period of nine months commencing January 1. 1899, Jule B. Frankenheimer, John A. Lane and Fred O, Pryor. The faculty reports them as having passed all examinations in a creditable manner. Fast Oriental Mails. There is a chance to beat the record in replying to letters from New Zealand and Australia. The steamer Alameda from Australia is due to arrive March 8. Re- Dlies can be written and returned by the steamer Gaelic, sailing March 9 at 11 a. m., intercepting the Australian si -amer from Vancouver at Honolulu. Thi is a result of the recent transfer arrangements at Honolulu—otherwise letters would have to be held from the 9th to the 2d, or until the departure of the Alameda. —— e Half Interest Deal. Felix Galindo, 1380 California street, swore to a complaint before Acting Police Judge Barry yesterday charging Robert Kirschner with obtaining money by false retenses. _February 16 Galindo paid Y{lrschner $200 for a half interest in his bakery at 418 Larkin street on his repre- sentations that the business was paying $20 daily and that he had a lease for thres years at a rental of $30 per month. Galindo now alleges that both of these representa- tions were false. 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