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

FRANCISCO CALL, THU RSDAY, MARCH 9 1899 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Bo Lol Bty Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. Macrket and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone M\Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS. 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Maln 1574 PUBLICATION OFFICE.. CRED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coples, & cents. Terms by Mall, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 6 months. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 3 month: DAILY CALL—By Single Mont BUNDAY CALL One Year. WEEKLY CALL, One Year All postmasters are authorized to recelve subscriptions. fample coples will be forwarded when requested. DELIV DAKLAND OFFICE NEW YORK OFFICE.... Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative, WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE......c.o.0 - C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE .. Marquette Bullding C.GEORGE KROGNEBS, Advertising Represcntative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until $:30 o'clock. 287 Hayes street, open unti 930 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:20 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, opsn until 9:3G o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventhy street, open until 9 o'clock. I505 Pelk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ane Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. olumbia—‘"La Tosca. California — Sousa’s Concerts, Friday, March 10. a Belle Helene."” Alcazar—"A Man With a Past.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Alhambra— the Hero of Manl Grand Opera House—Ellls Opera Compan: fng, March 13 Ass tion Hall-S. F. Philharmonic. Chutes and Zoo—Planka, the “Lady of Lions.” Olympla—Corner Mason and Ellis streets, Specialties. Central Park—The Steeplechase. Monday even- AUCTION SALES. By A. W. Louderback—This day, at 10:30 a. m., and 2:30 m., Turkish Rugs, at 123 Geary street. By Frank W. Butterfleld—This day, Mission st., Furniture and Carpets. P | at 11 a. m., at 866 HAT Ingleside as now conducted is doemed is a circumstance which seems to excite no ex- pression of regret. As a business proposition | Ingleside is bad for everybody but the proprietors. It | is a constant drain on the community, and for that sorbs makes no return. | | | | | R which it a It is true that racing “puts money into circulation” in certain channels, but it adds nothing to the wealth | the commun The money it stimulates is merely taken from legitimate channels and diverted to a rse always ending in the pocket of the speculator, rer owner or bookmaker. There is no advantage ven to business, no industry pro- which Ingleside attracts from part. They earn it by ad of paying the butcher and the ndlord they wager it on a speed con- comes e most poor people, 2 d then grocer and the I Jave all been settled before the horses ich may leit the post. T Jose their own money, and in desperation take money that does not belong to them. | This they also lose, but the money has been “put into circulation.” That it would have truly have been in circulation if devoted to legitimate purposes is a factg touts ignore : ss men would be glad to see racing re- | and rather than see it go on at the riotous and ace which now marks it would be glad to see s growing on the tr: They have suffered h. Their employes have been led into embezzle- ment and other forms of crime. This can be said men and women. It can even be said of boys. A spirit of distrust has arisen, and so strong is the| prejudice against the Ingleside ipstitution that no | workman resorting there habitually can retain good sta g. He causes himself, whether justly or not, | to be suspected, and as a matter of protection his employer watches him. R tinuous 1g, if honest and periodical rather than con- would not be objectionable. Racing which | depends for its support upon the dollars of the de- luded poor has nothing to commend it, and the sooner abolished the better. Citizens of Spokane chased a man whom they sup- posed to have escaped from jail, but when they as- certained that he was a smallpox patient who had | broken away from the pesthouse the swiftness with vanished would have given points to a professional sprinter. There is always the possibility that in attending to the business of some- body else one may catch more than he is after. which their enthusiasm Italy is offended at the refusal of China to stand and deliver. Italy has the same right to a portion of the Orient that a footpad has to that which is in your purse, yet if the footpad told you to throw up vour hands, and you demurred, probably he too would be offended. A nation on the highway with a sand- bag is much like an individual. A gentleman who with four comrades was through the heroic efforts of some strangers saved from drowning paid the gallant rescuers $5, and did not de- mand any change. Nevertheless, as a mere matter of justice, the rescuers ought to send back at least a dollar and six bits. 1f the members of the State Senate can discern any compliments in the estimate placed upon them by a writer in the Sacramento Bee they have keener per- ceptions than their work would indicate. There seem to be many points in common between Burns and Quay. FEach, dog-like, yowls in the manger. Neither could get a certificate of good moral character, and they pine for a bone apiece. ¥our Stockton youths who sneaked disguised into a game of ball played by feminine contestants who desired only spectators of theic own sex ought to have been kicked over the fence. Sometimes complaint is made that a circus carries money out of town. The Ingleside track is worse than a circus in constant operation. 3 No paper can advocate lynching, and yet there is a case at Salinas in which the climax of lynching would not provoke much severe rebuke. Mrs. Botkin has had so many troubies that her husband’s demand for divorce can hardly bsmckoned as adding to them. —_— According to telegraphic reports Secretary Alger | practically to prescribe any will nullify the good in- | THE MAJORITY'S WILL. T does not scem to have occurred to the Burns Lunta that it has always been leit to a majority to say whether there shall be a caucus or not. Yet that is everywhere the usage. In other words, in- ctead of the caucus ruling the majority, the majority precedes the caucys and decides whether it will or not invoke the caucus as an instrument of its will. Every time Burns has tried to get a caucus this ma- jority has withstood and defcated him. Is it not time that he subjected his will and surrendered his ambi- tion to the often expressed will of the majority? The majority has decided repeatediy against a caucus, and in joint convention it has nearly a hundred times de- cided against his aspiration to be Senator. In every possible way the party by its majority in the Legis- | lature has decided against Burns’ candidacy and against his schemes for making it successful. This has been done because the party sees its de- struction in his success, and as the majority should performed in opposing him and should be to the end. The party is entirely satisfied with the conduct of its majority. It applauds, approves and will stand by that majority, which has wisely decided that party in- | terests do not require a caucus. He maintains a chronic | Had he not | Mr. Burns is the bolter. bolt from the decision of the majority. been a bolter he would have closed his headquarters and gone about his business long ago. Only a de fiant and unjustifiable ambition which hopes to flour ish over the ruin of the party has kept him at Sacra- mento and made the contest scandalous. bolters, cast out those who defy the majority, and the State can have a worthy Senator and the party can have salvation without further delay. THE NEW PRIMARY Law. | with the new. primary election law which went into effect last week is whether or not the peo- HE chief problem to be solved in connection ple for whose benefit it was enacted will go to the | polls and vote at elections held under it. In New York, where a similar statute has been on trial for about indifference to primary political action, and there the machinery of nomination is still, as of old, in the hands of the bosses and their men. If the people of | California do not take sufficient interest in their poli- tics to attend the primaries authorized by the new law, the experience of New York will doubtless be re- | peated here. | far as a layman may be permitted to judge, the legal objections lodged against the former statute— | declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in | March, 1808—have been obviated. Senator Stratton | attempted in that act to enlarge the qualifications of | voters at primaries, and for that reason his work was nulled. In its decision in the Tulare County case the Supreme Court discussed the question of a test for voting, but did not decide it. Justice Garoutte, who wrote the .opinion, however, went far enough | with this argument to show that he did not regard a test for voting with favor—the power to make a reasonable one including the power to make an un- | reasonable one—and his suggestion that a Demo- cratic Legislature might prescribe as a test a belief in the 16 to 1 theory and 'a Republican Legislature fzith in a high tariff was sufficient to show the dan- gerous character of the idea and indicate that it | might be used by partisans to the disadvantage of | the people. These remarks seem to have had the desired cficct‘ upon Senator Stratton. He has omitted the test | entirely from the new law, requiring only that the | voter shall swear to membership of the party with which he desires to act. It is difficult now to predict how this rule is going to operate. A reasonable test would, perhaps, have prevented much prospective fraud at primaries, and it may be that the failure | | tent of the statute altogether; but, as with the other | questions presented, only a practical trial of the sys- tem will demonstrate its strength and weakness. So aiter all the main question is whether the people will care to vote at primary elections. The political bosses capture conventions, nominate candidates and control patronage through the indifference of the masses to their civic duties. Does any one believe for | a moment that if every man in San Francisco at- tended as conscientiously to his election responsibili- | ties -as he does to his private business corrupt | Supervisors, boodle School Directors and incompe- tent and dishonest officials would be elected? If, then, the present debased condition of politics is due to the failure of the people to attend to their duties as citizens, how is a change to be worked by a law which merely makes their indifference more disas- trovs? The new primary law is an experiment, and as such | it should be given a full and fair trial. Its purpose is to strengthen party organization, and in this respect | it will correct a most disheartening tendency in the | Australian ballot system, namely, a tendency to mul- tiply “piece” clubs and elevate to the dignity of “parties” all sorts of committees appointed by sore- head politicians solely to defeat the regular candi- dates. One thing, however, may be regarded as set- tled before this statute is even given a trial. If the people do not go to the polls and vote for delegates to conventions the politicians will have them more firmly imprisoned than ever, for none but fegular par- ties can under the statute appear with a designation upon the official ballot. e e e Prophets of evil have predicted that at some future day San Francisco would drop into the sea. When become headquarters for transportation to the Phil- ippines. Until then it must wait with such patience as AN EASTERN DELUSION. f ; EVERAL times of late we have had occasion to the press of Boston, New York and Philadel- phia reiterate the statements that there isan over- no-longer opportunities for its profitable use at home and that our capitalists must seek investments abroad. test offender in that unreflecting way. In commenting recently upon the proposed establishment of cotton “The United States has reached a stage of industrial development where British example in this respect is tal has beconte so abundant and American production has so outstripped domestic consumption that new ing of the project for cotton mills in Venezuela. It is a case of necessity.” defend the life of the party, that high duty has been | Cancel the | two years, there has been no change in the popular | | duce inex 1 East can be accounted for only upon the theory that the public mind of that section is subject to an im- ] mense delusion. British capitalists can afford to send | their capital abroad because they manufacture at home all the raw material produced there, and, in§ccd. a ! great deal that is not produced there, but America has | not yet reached that stage by a long way. Why should we send out our capital to manufac- | ture raw material in other lands when we do not manufacture what we produce in our own country? We are sending large quantities of raw fruit to Europe and importing large quantities of fruit pre- serves and confections of all kinds. Why should we not work up at home our fruit to its highest form and ship it in that shape to Europe? Why, in fact, should we export any kind of raw material if we have capital enough to manufacture it all? That there is a glut of money in the Eastern centers ! is not to be denied since all authorities there agree | upon that point. The country around Boston, New York and Philadelphia, however, is not the whole of | the United States by any means. There are abundant opportunities for the profitable investment of capital | | over the whole vast region lying west of the Missis- | sippi and south of the Potomac. If the Eastern peo- | ple could recover from their delusion and see things as } they are they would perceive at once that there are larger opportunities open for capital in any one of our Pacific States than there are in Venezuela, and that | it would be better for us to manufacture our own raw material before we go abroad to work on that of other folks. I relief of the Supreme Court, through ments to the State constitution, The Call | tioned one evil affecting all the courts, whether of original or of appellate jurisdiction, that needed separate treatment. That evil is the enormous de- velopment of records. Before the codes were adopted or official reporters had taken the autocratic relation | to the administration of justice that they now hold | the points of exception in the trial of a cause were briefiy expressed at the very time they were made and the bills of exception immediately ‘]ud,ch Now each case is officially reported and the | LAW REFORM. N referring to various proposed measures for the amend- men- elimination of immaterial or argumentative matter is | left to the discrimination of the reporter. When a niotion for new trial is made a transcript from his notes is usually required, and charged for by the folio. In the preparation of statements or bills of excep- tion the rule of late has been virtually to adopt the transcript, the testimony in which is often but not al- | ways reduced to narrative form, and the work has become chiefly mechanical or automatic, and is com- monly performed by clerks. The result is, as we have heretofore pointed out, that the labor which ought to devolve on the bar is largely transferred to the bench, and that it is a very small case that, by the time it tents can be reached. In the Federal situation is worse, for there the principal object of the law appears to be to fill the pockets of clerks, re- porters and printers. These facts entail almost prohibitory expenses upon litigants, except in very heavy controversies, and pro- ctness and confusion in the practice and in the administration of the law. jurisdiction the jury have to depend upon their own recollections of the evidence, and, in the enlarging number of cases in which juries are dispensed with, there is no valid reason why qualified Judges should not be required to rely on their own notes. Instead of this directness and simplicity, which only demandscom- petency and industry, it is the fashion to take nearly all cases under advisement and to have the short- hand notes written out, so that the labor of trials is practically duplicated and the judicial mind immersed in a turgid mass of irrelevancies and immaterialities from which it must extract the salient elements for decision. When the inevitable motion for new trial | comes all this labor has to be performed again, and, on the appeal, when transcription and typewriting have ceased, the printer reproduces the tangled ac- cumulation until the Judges groan as they expend a hundred dollars’ worth of energy and research to produce a dollar’s worth of justice. These are scanty illustrations of the overloaded con- ditions of the law within our.courts, due partly to political legislation for the creation and support of supernumeraries and partly to our yearly deluge of legal fledgelings, which in the driest season never fails. The theory of our system is that justice should be swift, cheap and exact. In this State it is precisely the reverse. From the commencement. of a lawsuit to the end each step is accompanied by ‘every ele- ment of cost, delay and inartistic technicality that the ingenuity of indolence could invent. From the ad- mission of the State to the present year the Legisla- ture has contained men whose interests were to in- crease the volume and retard the progress of litiga- tion, and each session has been besieged by Court- house lobbies, whose energies were bent upon the multiplication of methods to extract money from the people, without rendering an equivalent. The bane of California from the first has been the unnatural pro- portion of scheming politicians interlaced by the com- mon desire to extract an easy livelihood from the in- dustrious and producing classes, until almost every man of energy and of strength has had to carry at least another man on his back. The public welfare is as unknown a quantity in the making and in the ad- | ministration of our laws as the public honor is in the | deadlock at Sacramento. | It is the system, or lack of system, not the courts, that is to blame, and, while it is indispensable, even by an extemporized method, if no better way can be found, immediately to felieve the congestion of the Supreme Court, it is equally necessary that our best | legal minds, who have some desire to connect them- selves with posterity, shorld initiate a larger reform, that will embrace the entire judiciary, the laws they are called upon to apply and the officers by whom they are assisted. In other States, and especially in Great Britain under its recent legislation, rapid strides have been made toward simplicity, uniformity and promptness in the enforcement of rights and in the redress of wrongs. It is full time for California to awaken from its Rip Van Winkle slumber and real- ize that, in this as in other respects, it must place jtself abreast of the times. Morehouse seems to have relented. He does not thirst for editorial gore as once he did. After all, the slaying of editors would be dangerous amusement. The gentleman would find the hunting of ducks more conducive to health. There is no use in being overcome with terror at the expenditures of Congress. There are in this country half a dozen men who could together foot the bill and have enough left to be certain of three meals a day. South American republics intimate that they do not desire to be absorbed by the United States, and as has been told again that he must go. He must be Rptting tired of this chestnut this shall occur Seattle will have a better chance to it can summon direct attention to the persistency with which supply of capital in the United States, that there are The New York Commercial Advertiser is the la- mills in Venezuela by American capital it said: forcing itselil on American attention. American capi- /fields of enterprise are imperative. This is the mean- The error contained in that statement is so vast that | its acceptance by the capitalists and the press of the this country has not the slightest desire to absorb them, there ought to be good feeling all around. signed by the | iches the Supreme Court, does not contain a drop- | sical record that needs tapping before its solid con- | courts the | p | glve general satisfaction, as he is one of | In courts of original | NINTH INFANTRY T0 ARRIVE HERE IN A FEW DAYS It Left Madison Bar- racks Tuesday. [WILL BE STATIONED HERE | ARMY BILL AN INTERESTING SUBJECT TO OFFICERS. sidio—Bids for Freight Transpor- tation to Manila Opened Yesterday. The adjutant general of the department was officially notified t the Ninth In- fantry left Madison barracks, New York, on Tuesday morning for San Francisco. The regiment will arrive here about the last of this week or the first of next. It is commanded by Colonel Willlam H. Powell and during the last war won for itself an honorable record in Cuba, par- ticipating in the Santiago campaign. An erroneous idea was disseminated through the medium of the afternoon press to the effect that the Ninth is coming here to be sent to the Philippines. This is denied ‘hy the officers at department headquar- ters. The regiment comes here to take ’!he place of the First Infantry and to do | garrison duty on this coast. Four com- | panies go to the Presidio, two to Van- | couver barracks headquarters and two | companies to Angel Island, one company to Benicia, while the other company is yet | to be assigned. | The advent of the Ninth to the Presidio | and the surrounding posts in the harbor will have the effect of stirring up the social life of the garrison and there is no doubt -that the omficers of the Ninth and | their families, since they come here to | make San Francisco their home, will be | accorded a royal welcome by the citizens | of this city. | ~The new army bill as just passed by Congress has thrown all "the officers of | this department into a sea of speculation, None of them seem to exactly understand it clearly, and they are waiting for the full text from Washington with such ex- gcl'zlm‘a.tions as the War Department will d, The matter of promotion under the new | bill is the question of greatest interest | to the regular army officers and they are | not certain as to how its provisions will affect them. Some will be, of course, pro- moted, while others will be affected by a reduction of pay. _ One of the officers who will be promoted is First Lieutenant David J. Rumbough, now stationed the Presidio. He will ecome a capt His promotion will | the known and most popular offi- | cers ng here. He was appointed to | the Military Academy fn 1876 from Vir- | ginia and graduated four years later. He | has seen constant service in the Third Ar- | tillery and, des, is a_graduate of the | School of Artiilery.” By his efficiency he | has won the highest respect of all of his superior officers. Major David H. Kin- zie of the Third Artillery is another who | Will be promoted. He will be made a lieu- | tenant colonel and In all probability will | 80 to some other regiment. |~ Bince the Presidio has been the receiy- ing station for all recruits they are gath- ering there every day from all parts of the count; here are now at this sta- | tion over 130 of these soldiers. They have all been carefully vaccinated. Bids were opened terday noon for the transportation of 7500 tons of miscel- laheous stores to Manila. Uncle Sam is determined that his boys shall not suffer for want of any of the necessaries of life. e No Favors for Americans. bes special from Washington quoted Colonel Bird of the transportation bureau of the War Department as_follows: “We are asking for bids for 7000 tons of frelght now stored at San Francisco. Ehip-owners offer the cheapcit rafe they will get the contract for transporting this freight to Manila. If they bld th same as American owners the American | ships will be given the preference.” ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. GOAT ISLAND—A Subscriber, City. The area of Yerba Buewa or Goat Island is 1409 acres. The highest point of the island is 344 feet above sea level. DEATHS ON TRAIN AND SHIP—O. H., City. This department has not been able to find any collated figures of “deaths of passengers and employes on rallroad trains, steamers and salling ves- sels, OFFICIAL TIME—Subscriber, Vallejo, Cal. The official time by which the time ball is dropped at noon each day on the cupola of the ferry building in San Fran- cisco is obtained from the United States Naval Observatory Mare Island. WHO WROTE IT?—A correspo tn Mo\;gtainf\'lew wishes the nr;n':ge:; e author of a plece of poetry i i occur the lines: © Boetiyi i Rhich ‘We were hunting for wint One May day, long gone by, " ToTIoE Out on the rocky clifl’s edge, Little sister and 1 THE MINT—L. A., City. The United States Branch Mint In San Francisco is under the rules of the Civil Service Com- mission, and men or women secking po- sitions there must pass th and if succestul he placed on the Not o eligibles, If you desire to take an exam- ination for that branch of the service ap- ij"’a(- at the Mint for the proper blanks. se will give you Sort deaice: &l b4 all the information PAPER—J. R., St. John, Glenn Cou . . » GI nty, Cal. The stock used In the manufacture of fine paper was commonly linen rags. but other materials have also been used— such as aloe fiber, asbestos, b sacking, banana fiber, barks of vasiis kinds, bast, bean and 'other stalks, cocoa nut fiber, cocoa nut kernel, clover, cotton esparto or alfa, flax, New Zealand flax, fresh water weeds, grasses, jute-leaves, | maize-hay, hemp, hors and Hobsines, ma- nila hemp, moss, nettles, old writing pa~ per, pea stalks, sawdust, seaweeds, peat, roots of various kinds, 'thistles, ‘veeds silk, straw, spent tan bark, wood, wool and wrack grass or zostera. g PETRIFIED BODIES—D. A. L., City. Human bodies do not petrify, but turn into what is known as adipocre, a word from the Latin adeps, fat, and cera, wax. T}:ledbcdy becomes changed Into a white, solid, very heavy non-putrescibl i stance which retains the original s;‘zes:x?d coutour of the person, and sometimes is this so well preserved that the features are recognizable. After the burial of a body in certain kind of moist ground a chemical change takes place which keeps the animal tissues from decomposition and even preserves the structure in the minutest particular so that the veins and Eeculisr markings are distinctly visible. uch a body is dense and heavy when taken from the earth, but becomes lighter as tlgedxlrmlumrfi evaporatos. -The teym etrified is usually applied to be Pn that condition. 2 oQing fomg HEADS OF GOVERNMENT — Trilby, Sonora, Cal. The following is a list of the heads of governments of the world on December 1, 1865: : Abyssinia, Meneltk 11, Emperor; Afghanis- tan, Abdur Rahman Khan, Ameer; :n:‘::. Bun-Can, King; Argentine Republic, Julio A. Roca, ~ President; Austria-Hungary, Francis Joseph, Emperor; Baluchistan, Mir Mahmud, Khan: Belglum, Leopold II, King: Bokhara, Seid Abdul Ahad, Ameer; Bolivia, Senor Severs Fernandez Alonzo, President; Borneo, Hasim Jalilal Alam Akamaldin, Sultan; Brazil, Senor Campos Salles, President; Bulgaria, Ferdinand, Prince; Central America, United States of, confederation dissolved: Chile, Frederico Erra- auriz, President; China, Kuang Hsu, Emperor; Colombla, General Quinto Calderon, President: 4 o Free State, Leopold (King of Belgium), | Many Recruits Arriving at the Pre- | SEATTLE, Wash., March 8.—A Times | If British | the | Iglesias, Pres Denmark, Chris- General 8o ign: Costa Rica, Rafael dent; Dahomey, Guthili, King: tian IX, King; Dominican Republic, Ulises Heureaux. President; Ecuador, Floy Alfaro, President; Egypt, Abbas, : dive; France, Francols Felix Faure, President; Germany, Witllam II, Emperor; Prussia, Wil- liam 11, King; Bavaria, Otto, King; Saxony, Albert, ‘King: Wurtemberg, Willlam 1I. King: Baden, Frederick, Grand Duke; Hesse, Ernst Louis V, Grand Duke: Lippe-Detmold, Adol- phus, Prince; Anbalt, Frederick, Duke; Bruns- wick, Prince Albrecht, Regent: Mecklenburg- Schwerin, Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke; Mecklenburg-Strelitz, _ Frederick William, Grand Duke; Oldenbure, Grand Duke; Saxe-Altenburg, Ernest, Duke; Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Alfred (Duke of Edinburgh), Duke; Saxe-Meiningen, George IT, Duke: Saxe-Wel- mar, Karl Alexander, Grand Duke; Waldeck. Pyrmont, Frederick, Prince; Great Britain and freland, Vietoria, Queen: Greece, George, King: Guatemala, Manuel Estrado Cabrera, Presi- dent; Hayti, General Tiresias Simon Sam President; Honduras, Polycarpo Bonilla, Prest dent; India_(British). Victoria, Empress; Italy, Humbert, King; Japan, Mutso Hito, Mikado: Khiva, Seld omed Rahim, Khan; Korea, Li Hsi, King; Liberia, Willlam David Colman. President: Luxemburg, Adolphus (Duke of Nas- «au), Grand Duke; Mexico, General Porfirio Diaz, President; Monaco, Albert, Prince: Mon- tenegro, Nicholas, Prince: Moroceo, Abdul Az- ziz, Sultan; Nepal, Surendra Bikram Shamsher Jang, Maharaja; Netherlands, Wilheimina (a minor), Queen; Nicaragua, General Jose San- tos Zelaya, President: Oman, Seyyld Feysal | bin Turkes, Sultan; Orgnge Free State, M. T. | President; Paraguay, General Egus- | | President Persia, Muzafer ed Din, Peru, Genoral Nicola Plerola, President; Portugal, Carlos, King: Roumania, Charles, King: Russia, Nicholas I, Emperor: Salvador, General Gutlérrez, President; Samoa, Malietoa Tanu, King; Sarawak, Sir Charles Johnson Brooke, Raja ervi exander, King; Siam, Khoulalonkorn, King: Spain, Alphonso XIIT (a King; Sweden and Norway, Oscar II, Switzerland, E. Ruffy, President; Trans- South African Republic), Stephanus J. Paul Kruger, President: Tunis. Sidi All Pasha, Bey; Turkey, Abdul Hamid II, Sultan: United Btates of America, Willlam McKinley, Presi- dent: Uraguay, Jose Cuestas (ad interim), President; Venezuela, General Andrade, Presi- dent zibar, Hamoud Bin Mohamed, Sultan (Seyyid). AROUND THE ‘ CORRIDORS | Sherift T. M. Brown of Eureka is at the | Russ. | Joseph A. Otto, a prominent mine-| owner of West Kootenal, B. C., is at the Grand. T. Regan, a mining man of Idaho, and Fred Dodd, a Fresno hotel man, are at the Lick. J. E. Thielsen, superintendent of the Portland Street Railway, is a guest at the Occidental. 8. H. Babcock of Salt Lake, traffic man- ager of the Denver and Rlo Grande Rail- way, is at the Palace. | 1. Vossion, French Consul at Honolulu | for the past seven vears, i3 at the Occl- dental en route to Paris on a six month’s’ vacation. . M. E. Martinelli, a merchant of Wat- sonville, and A. M. Ericson and G, Pe- | terson, railroad contractors of San Luis Obispo, are registered at the Grand. Professor M. Lyle of the College of | Melbourne arrived at the Palace yester- | day en route for a protracted visit to Ireland, after which he will return to his post in the colonies. Sengeant K. J. Carey of the Bighteenth | Infantry arrived from Manila yesterday | on a furlough and registered at the Oc- cidental. He is on his way to San An- tonlo, Texas, where he has business in- terests. Marshall Field, a prominent drygoods merchant of Chicago anda director of the | Pullman Palace Car Company, arrived | in El Paso this morning and will be in | San Francisco in a few days. He is trav- eling in a special car and is accompanied by a party of ten. | William Gentry Bingham of Auckland was among the arrivals on the Alameda yesterday. He has recently secured con- cessions for the establishment of elec- | tric lines in Auckland, Christchurch and other places, which will be the first of the kind in Australasia. H J. J. Duveen of London is registered at | the Palace with his family. They have | been visiting In Australia and are on their way home. Mr. Duveen says that | the drought in the colonies has played sad havoc with the sheep industry. They | were dying by the thousands and could | be bought for a shilling each when he | left. T. Y. Dzushi, financial manager of the | Japanese Imperial Railway, has arrived | at the Palace. He has been inspecfing the various railroads throughout the United States, which, he says, are the. finest in the world. He will report to his Government on the conditions as he found them. He is accompanied by Tame | Matsmoto. | Dr. S. J. Call of the United States rev- | enue cutter service is at the Grand. He | has been in Washington for the last few | months, where he completed his report | of the relief expedition to the impris- oned whalers in the Arctic. It will be in- corporated with those of the lieutenants in charge. Dr. Call will again go north in a short time. George H. Holden of Washington, who | has been in Manila for several months | representing some Towa capltalists with a | view to making investments, is at the Oc- cidental. He sa¥s that on account of the | unsettled condition of affairs in the Phil- ippines and the dilatory policy of the| United States prospective investors are | slow to act, and many are returning to | this country to wait for more favorable conditions. | —————————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, March 8. — Joaquin Miller, California’s eccentric poet, called at the White House to see President Mec- Kinley to-day. He said this was his first visit to Washington in fifteen years. Miller had with him an enormous gold nugget, which he took from a Klondike claim. He was accompanied to the ‘White House by the Hoosier poet, James | | | | | [ | 1 Whitcomb Riley. Senator Perkins left for California this morning, several days sooner than he ex- pected. Representative De Vrles also left for home to-day. Mrs. E. F. Loud will make a trip to Europe this summer. ———————— THE POPULIST CONFLICT. Charges Preferred Against Dr. Gri wold, George A. Clough and ¢ Garrett W. Smith. The latest development in the troubles of the Populists is a communication to the officers and members of the county com- mittee of that political organization pre- ferring charges against Dr. W. N. Gri wold, George A. Clough and Garrett W. Smith. These three members of the Peo- ple's party are accused of circulating and promulgating false and misleading state- ments regarding the conduct and manage- ment of the last campalgn, scandalizin, the members, disgracing the party nn§ stirring up discord and strife. The principal offense of the three pe: sons was saying that the purity of elec- tions committee of the People's party had corruptly disbursed money intrusted to its care and that its members were conse- quently quilty of felony. Accompanying the communication con- taining the charges is a copy of the adopted minority report of the executive committee, which on February 14, 1899, in- vestigated the purity of elections commit. tee. In this minority report is an item- ized statement of the campaign funds amounting to $1987 57, with recéipts and expendltures, followed by a statement that the executive committee found the accounts of the purity of elections com- mittee correct and proper in every partic. :xtl:réux:;dmth:t uil‘d (t:;:mmi:tee discharged el L mmmep ectly honest and satis- —————— Extreme Cruelty Charged. Officer McCurry of the Society for the Preventtlun of Cruelty to Animals has sworn to a complaint charging Leuis & Kracke of 133 Henry street with cruelty to animals. Kracke manages the City Transfer Cungmny': business at 311 Bush street. The cruelty complained of is that he starves his horses so that they are unfit for work. 1In fact, it is al egecf that he has starved one horse to death, the poor beast dying of hunger a few nights ago. On Tuesday night he was found driving one animal that was o sick it S e R P R s along the streets. Sl | organizations | it not been for the remarkable { cepted, t | Bty ‘pesident in the best and m THE DEMOCRACY NEEDS MONEY RIGHT AWAY Finance Has Eclipsed Politics. THAT TALE OF INDEBTEDNESS AN APPEAL TO DEMOCRATIC LOYALTY. Party Leaders unite in a Quick Effort to Pay Debts as a Re- sult of Examiner Politics. The committee appointed to raise $4000 to pay the campaign debts of the Demo- cratic State Central Committee and so to save the party from being sold to W. R. Hearst is beginning an active cam- paign for the raising of funds, and tne committee and the party leaders gener- ally are confident that the money will be easily and soon secured. The special finance comittee of five, consisting of Walker C. Graves, James H. Budd, James D. Phelan, Oscar Hocks, Timothy Treacy and Frank J. Fallon, has decided on a plan of campaign, which is to consist of appeals to every Democratic organization in the State and to individual Democrats of means everywhere. The committeg will make an urgent appeal for money in every lcEitimate direction. During the present week such Democratic s the Iroquois Club, the Democratic Central Club and the Germ Democratic Club in this city will h their attention called to the deficit at re; ular meetings, and subscriptions, eit: from the club or from members, wili | asked. Communications will be sent i party organizations and party leac PRroughout the State. There is ev promise that the debt will be quic cleared. Ordinarily it would not be so easy to pay $4000 worth of debts after a losing fampaign. Such debts have before now had to wait a long time for satisfaction. This debt would have had a @ubious pros- ttlement, it is most likely, had e e ont offer of W. pay the bill if Seth Mann from the chairmanship of Kly R. Hearst to would_ resign a the State Central Committee, and let Hearst name M. F. Tarpey for the va- and so acquire control of the State cancy fachine. This offer, accompanied by threats that the Examiner would begin swinging clubs if it were not soon ac- Fa s the effect of stirring into ac- jvity the sense of decency a nd party loy- t active members of the party everywhere. e CRICKETERS AWAKE. California Association Elects Officers for the Coming Season. At the annual meeting of the California Cricket Association, held on Tuesday night, the following officers were elected Edward Brown, president; Captain J. Metcalfe, Robert B. Hogue, W. 8. Mec- Gavin and H. V. Keeling, vice president Arthur Inkersley, secretary and trea: urer. J. J. Moriarty of the Alameda Cricket Club, George Theobald of the Pa- cific Cricket Club and H. H. Cookson of the California Cricket Club were appoint- ed a committee to prepare the schedule of matches to be played during the coming season, with the sanction of the associa- ion. : The silver cup presented to_the Califor- nia Cricket Association in 1895 by J. Hun- | ter Harrison having been awarded to the Alameda Club champions of 1885, 1897 and 1898 as its absolute property, the matches of 1898 will be played for a pennant to be presented by Edward Brown. president of the association. The schedule will prob- ably contain twenty-one pennant matches, and each club’s percentage will be ob- tained by dividing the number of matches won by the club by the number of com- pleted games, unfinished games not being counted at all — e «Bill” Lange Goes East. “Big Bill” Lange, the famous ball- player, left for New Mexico Monday evening, where he will join the Chicago team and begin practicing for the Na- tional League season, which will open in about six weeks. Tt is possible that Bill and the Chica- os will come here on their way East and lay a few exhibition games with the alifornia_League teams, in which event local cranks will have an opportunity to pass judgment upon him in his new po- sition. Lange is delighted at the idea of flling “Pop” Anson's old corner, but wh(gxer he makes a success of it of not this will be his last season on the dia- mond. for next fall he will return to San Francisco and sign a life contract with Miss Geisleman and permanently retire from the diamond. —_———————— Cal. glace fruit 50¢ per Ib at Townsend's.® [ P, —_— e————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * —_— e——— NOT THE DRUG BUSINESS. “But T prefer another,” she objected. A fierce depression took possession of him. % “Y am just as good as another,” he cried. Now she laughed in his face. To be sure, a woman is a woman, but love Is not precisely like the drug busi- ness, after all.—Detroit Journal. —————————— California Limited, = Santa Fe Route. Leaves Sunday: Tuesdays tand Fridays. Elegant service. Vestibuled sleepers, observation cars. 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