The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 14, 1899, Page 6

5 THE SAN = — [UESDAY ....MARCH 14, 1899 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. hddress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. AT e it PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS ..2I7 to 22| Stevenson Street el ne Maln 1874. DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coples, B cents. Terms by Mali, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Usll), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Cail), 6 months. DAILY CALL tincluding Sunday Cail), $ months DAILY CALL—By Stngle Month BUNDAY CALL On WEEKLY CALL, O: All postmasters a: Sample copies wiil be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE.. .908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertlsing Reproscntative, WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICH......... Welikagton Hotel C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE.. 3 Marquetts Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Represcutativo. BRANCH OFFICE6—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll £:30 o'clock. 38T Hayes street, cpen until 9730 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open ‘uptll 9:30 c'clock. €15 Larkin street, open unMl 9:50 o‘clock. 1941 Misslon street, open until 10 o'clock. 2991 Market street, cornar Sixtesnth, open until © o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106, Eleventh street, open uptil 9 o'ciock. 1505 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock.” NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kenticky streets. cpen untll 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. = The Steeplechase. TAUCTION SALES. v, at 2:30 o'clock, Turkish v, at 11 oclock, Restaur- s & Co.—Tuesday, March, at 638 Market street. B & Co.—Thursday, March 23, at 12 m., Real Estate at 513 California street THE FACTS ABOUT QUARANTINE. f rted to iso- 1, at 12 INCE public authority was first a late an infected district or seques for forty days, a quarantine of time, er infected risen in many countries an issue between preme jurisdiction over that subject. The of our Federal Government has been in the of wise co-operation with the States. Epi- \fong men are of subtle and sinister force. ion takes often a secret and sinnous path, culty, and which may le i i agencies of authority: This being true, the Federal Government has wisely added to its extensive power and instrumentalities the element of local solicitude as a powerful prompter of the active vigilance of the State. Working together he two have saved this country from any invasion of yellow fever or in harmon prolonged and disastrous itary science has had great progress in the last hali century. Formerly yellow fever was a too fre- quent visitor in New York City, and raged as far north as Halifax. . New York was once divided by a i ard fence, crossing the island at Grand street. e were guarded doors, and communication with the part of the city from the fence e Garden to isolafe a devastating epidemic of v fever which raged in the lower part of the OCur San Francisco climate is not especially favor- able to febrile epidemics, but we are in such close commercial relation with Asiatic ports, where these plagues are endemic, that we cannot afford to omit any precaution against their importation. For a long time there was resistance to any Federal quarantine here lest it should furnish footing for evasion of our Chinese exclusion laws. Even our members of Congress, in deference to this form he i-Chinese movement, were listiess about securing Federal co-operation in quarantine. During that time the practice was established of put- ting the matter in the hands of a quarantine officer appointed by the San Francisco Board of Health, who boarded incoining ships, to grant or withhold a clean bill of health or free pratique. When Federal quarantine was established here and a station was located on Angel Island the city quar- antine officer continued to exercise this authority, and the result has been annoying to commerce and ship- owners. Numerous clashes of authority have oc- curred, and for a time there was high friction with the Federal authorities. All this was caused by the non-appearance of the State in the field of co-operation. The policy of the Federal Government being clearly in the direction of working in harmony with the State ‘authority, and there being no assertion thereof, it could no more co-operate in this important function with a munici- pal officer than it could divide jurisdiction with the bailiff of one of our police courts. The public has in turn blamed each side of the controversy, when no special blame attached to either, for the whole difficulty arose in the absence of any official representative of the State. A bill is before the Legislature to provide what has been lacking. by authorizing the appointment of a guarantine officer representing the State Board of Health. This will supply the needed and essential presence of the State for Federal co-operationy and the relations of the two jurisdictions will amicably 2djust themsclves for the facility of commerce and the protection of the people against the diseases of Asia which may be carried on shipboard. It is to be hoped that the bill will pass, and thus additional pro- tection will be given. This is needed in view of the increase in our Asiatic and Pacific contacts. We must watch leprosy from Hawaii as well as smallpox and typhus from Manila, cholera from Yokohama and the bubonic plague from Hongkong. The friendly and scientific co-operation of the State and Federal Gov- ernments will give a sense of safety needed to protect our community against epidemic panics and prevent the losses which they cause. There is not the slightest reason for supposing that the human fragments found at the garbage crematory indicate that a murder has been committed. Mur- derers as a .rule do not pickle their victims, nor do they scatter the fragments about so as to catch the eye. The limit of the sensation is that some callous medical student has been indecently heartless in dis- posing of a subject. : s R it is not believable that a reward.of $350,000 is out for the murder of Aguinaldo. With such a ‘chance to make money some. of .the _Filipino’s trusted leaders would have had his head in a basket long ago. ; Rumors that the military governors in Cuba clash is fairly good evidence that they are on good terms, _| in most cases break:it to the advantage of some can- THE END OF GAMBLING. THE Board of Supervisors yesterday stood by its moral, official and public duty. Resisting all blandishments and no doubt putting many a temptation behind them, the members by an almost unanimous vote passed the ordinance - prohibiting pools and bookmaking on the races. It was.at once sent to the Mayor and was promptly signed, putting it beyond reconsideration and making .it the perma- nent law of the city unless repealed. , Repeal being more difficult than reconsideration, and reconsidera- tion being more difficult than defeat in-the first in- stance, it will be seen that this moral ordinance is now the farthest possible remove from danger. The Call has made plain its position on this, subject. , The list of offenses, of the fall of men and .women, the losses of good name, character and estate which: we compiled and published as a history of the ruin wrought and degradation caused by track gambling), long and distressing as it was, told but.a fraction of the harm and sorrow and blighted life traceable.to this affluent fountain of evil and corruption!s It has- caused the betrayal of public and private trusts, of. personal obligations, of the most sacred bonds that can tie a man to his conscience and a woman o her honor. o With no inconsiderable knowledge' of the world and much observation of the weaknesses of human FRANCISCQ CALL, TUESDAY. didate utterly unworthy of the office. It would open the door of the Senate. for aspirants who could never command a majority vote nor obtain the stffrages of the people, and such resuits would be worse than the most prolonged deadlock we are ever likely to see. * The very fact that such a plan-has been ‘submitted to Congress is significant, of the tone of public senti- ment on this subject. It'shows that even among the more conservative citizens there is a general recogai tion of the evils growing out of the present system of electing Senators and a desire to’ provide a remedy. It i¢ evident the issue cannot be much longer ignored or postponed. Deadlocks and worse scandals are be- coming too common in these periodical contésts be- | fore the Legislatures, and the consequences are too | disastrous to ordinary legislative business. A change is /inevitable, but when it is accomplished it ‘should not"be a‘compromise. The- only *adequate remedy for the abuse is the popular one of electing Senators Dby direct voteiof the people. THE -BANKS AND.THE LEGISLATURE. HE existing depression in country property and Tapprcl\én;:i()n induced by the limited rain supply were only .proximate or-exciting-causes of the suspension of the County Bank and the Commercial Bank of San; Luis Obispo and the Bank of Paso ‘Roblés. The real or fundamental reason: for these failures was a loose method ‘of conducting busines: at itift hich men are prone, S i nature and the pitiful lapses to w g T unchecked through the defective organization of the we confess to an unusual sense of the appalling depths to which one may fall when the feet slip once on the downward -way - which the Supervisors have now closed. The husbands who are fugitives from justice ot serving sentences in prison, the sons who have broken thel hearts of their parents and the women whose lives are eclipsed in dishonor, rise in ghastly ranks to accuse the track gamblers of their undoing. 1t is sometimes said that men deserve no praise for doing their duty, but this hardly holds in this case. Long sufferance and protracted tolerance of this evil had given it the shelter that time and indifference throw around immemorial custom. The poolsellers and bookmakers could enlist on their side quite re- spectable business interests and could avail themselves of the neutrality of the indifferent to such an extent that, lacking moral conscience, the Supervisors could have evaded the responsibility which they-have met | and harged gallantly like men. They deserve ap- plause; they merit every assurance of popular ap- proval, and the city cannot too much honor them. Every wife and mother, every man and woman, and every boy and lad in this city is safer to-day than yes- terday. The happiness of every home, the honesty of every man and the honor of every woman is.safer than before. The pulpit has its share of the public gratitude. It rallied unitedly in -demanding that the law remove this lure and leading into-temptation. The ministers, in temperate and restrained but truthful and heart- reaching terms, held up the evil and sumnioned the forces of public authority to provide its remedy. They fulfilled their moral office and did it timely and well. The Call congratulates the city that a shadow has been lifted from its form and thanks the Supervisors who heard the tumult without, demanding an end to this | vice, and the still, small voice within which prompted | the duty so well and quickly done. s e . WORKINGMEN @ND THE EXPOSITION. ACTION taken by the Building Trades Council in adopting a resolution favoring the proposed | Pacific Ocean Exposition adds an important element of strength to the movement and will go far | toward bringing it to success. The action is there- fore in the highest degree gratifying and will be so regarded by all progressive men throughout the city. It would have been a serious handicap indeed if San Francisco had been compelled to undertake the great enterprise without the earnest co-operation of her workingmen. The opposition of a futile news- paper owned by a non-resident and run for boodle purpéses can be ignored; but antagonism to the | movement on the part of any influential part of the community would have been disastrous. The exposition will be of benefit to all classes of | people and all interests of the Pacific Coast. Tt will stimulate trade and industry in a thousand ways. Such | have been the results accomplished by expositions held | in other parts of the Union, and there is no reason to deubt they will be attained here. It is worth noting | in this connection that the exposition at Omaha last summer was so successful, despite the war, that the managers of the enterprise propose to hold another on the same site during the coming season. The Pacific Coast has never had a great exposition claborately worked out. The best accomplished so far was the Midwinter Fair, which was hurried along with insufficient means and was opened before it was i fully advertised. Thus it did not ‘bring to the cityi anything like the benefits it would otherwise have done; and yet it must be borne in mind it relieved the ‘ stagnation of that season of panic and depression and | gave employment to many who otherwise would have been without wages during that dreary winter. The coming exposition will be conducted on dif- ferent lines. It will put into circulation a large amount of idle home money and also bring large sums from abroad. When once launched an appro- priation of $500,000 from the General Government is assured. Other States will also make appropriations for expenditure here. Such expenditures will pro- mote industry in all lines and will be particularly bene- ficial to the building trades. All workingmen are therefore as interested in the enterprise as are the merchants, manufacturers and land-owners, and the council of the building trades has acted' wisely in adopting resolutions approving it. e SENATORIAL ELECTIONS. BY way, of varicty’m the discussion of reforms in | Senatorial elections, -the . Eastern - press has | turned from the familiar proposition of pro- viding for such elections by direct vote of-the people to a new scheme of enabling deadlocks to be broken in legislative bodies by authorizing the election of Senators by a plurality instead of 2 majority vote. The new plan, which was submitted to Congress in | a bill by Senator Hoar, provides “if no person_shall have received a majority after seven separate ballots in joint assembly, one of suchballots at least having been taken on seven separate days, the person who receives a plurality: of all the votes cast on:the next ballot, or, if there be no plurality, on the‘first subse- quent ballot where any. person shall have a plurality, a majority of all the members of both houses being present and voting, shall be declared duly elected.” Such a change in the system of electing Senators would be less radical than-that of providing for a direct vote of the people and will ‘therefore be at- tractive to conservative reformers. Tt has, however, very little beyond its conservatism to commend. Tt is in the nature of a'compromise which;in"operation would probably prove to be a surrender of the whole issue by the reformers and a complete victory for the corrupt elements in politics. Election by a plurality vote after the seventh joint Bank. Commission -of, this, State and inefficiency, on thie part ofithe present Commissioners. A few figures ‘will’ “establish - these - propadsitions.. ~ As’appears by a communication from Mr. Evan J. Coleman, first’ president of the, Bank Commission, published in an- | other column, in the case of the County Bank of San Luis Obispo, as far back as-May 18, 1893, the di proportion between its available and convertibleas- sets and its liabilities was inexcusable. But its condi- tion on August 31, 1808, was more serious. At that time its investments in bank premises, in real estate taken for debts and in loans on real property aggre- gated $407,170 97. Its loans on stocks, bonds and other personalty; amounted to $32,729 68; and on “personal security,” which means individual credit, it had outstanding the large sum of $162,308 51. Its money on hand and due from banks footed up only $25,140 86. Its liabilities to depositors and banks were $385,069 34. Obviously from these figures, taken from " the report of the Bank Commissioners more than six months ago, while the ultimate solvency of the bank might haye been assured if real estate had not proved’ inconvertible, the disparity between its debts and its credits was so wide that it was not in a condition to transact ordinary banking business and was. at the mercy of any “run” that might be pre- cipitated by local or transitory conditions. These facts should have been comprehended by the Com- missioners and the bank at once forced to stop or to increase its immediately available funds. Its of- ficial statement of December 31, 1898, printed in The Call of yesterday, showed that it had proceeded from bad to worse. The'amount of money tied up in the bank premises, in surrendered real estate and in pend- ing loans on real property had then increased to $466,- 539 10, and the loans on “personal security” to $178,- 222 21, while the money on hand and dus from banks | was reduced to $12,776 76, and the deposits and in- debtedness to other banks had been enlarged to $449,- 473 37. The County Bank of San Luis Obispo is the chief and criginating factor in the financial disturbance in that county, but under proper supervision and control its bad management might have been arrested and the injury liable to result from its suspension averted. Apart from the criticism that may be justly directed to the Commissioners, in its issue of February 17, 1899, The Call specially invited the attention of the Legislature to a practical remedy for unsafe banking, then suggested by Mr. Coleman, who prvoscd that the present statute should be amended so as to en- | large the number of Commissioners to five, to reduce the salary of each to the original figure of $3000 per annum and to compel the disclosure to the public and to the Commissioners of all assignments and hy- pothecations of securities. The proyision for public- | ity was essential, because the law directing advertised semi-annual statements from each bank had been re- pealed, which deprived depositors of official informa- tion, without which they were in constant danger. The additional expense of this economical measure, only $4200 in each year, would have inflicted no addi- tional burden upon taxpayers, because it was provided that the cost and the restricted expenses of the Com- mission should be collected by an assessment trans- ferred from the deposits to the entire resources of the banks that would not exceed 8 cents in $1000. As usual, however, private interests and private in- fluences in this important matter have so far over- balanced the public welfare, and the end of the leg- islative session has been almost reached without the adoption of the improvements in the law that at least temporarily, until a better system could be devised, would have prevented loss and ruin to thousands of industrious and economical citizens. Bills covering the proposed amendments were introduced both in the Senate and in the Assembly. For some inexplicable purpose the Assembly bill was withdrawn. The Sen- ate bill was retained and is ready for the third reading, but it has been injudiciously amended so as to fix the office of the Commissioners at Sacramento instead of San Francisco, where the principal banks are lo- cated, and the salaries of the five Commissioners at the present rate, $3600 each per year, while “necessary traveling expenses,” placed by Mr. Coleman at $2000, are raised to $5000 per annum. ‘Meanwhile one of the items for printing useless reports crammed with un- intelligible statistics? which it was intended to lop off, has been illustrated in the general appropriation bill, az we are informed, to the tune of $4000. The question of protecting the earnings and depos- its of the people in savings and in commercial banks is not political, has no connection whatever with the Senatorial deadlock or with the defunct State Harbor Commission bill, and should not be considered in re- lation to patronage or under the advice or pressure of interested parties. Its deep significance has been painfully manifested within the past week. A Com- mission of five, in which not more than three should be of the same party, could attend to its duties and examine the condition of the banks without strain or undue procrastination. For traveling expenses $2000. i¥ an ample annual allowance. Three¢ thousand dollars per annum for each Commissioner is a sufficient compensation and equals the sal- ary of many of our Superior Judges. The entire cost of the Commission should be defrayed, not by the depositors but by the banks, to which the amount would be a mere bagatelle. And there is no reason whatever for any tax upon the peo- ple for bulky printing that conveys no available in- formation and actually dwarfs the annual reports of the National Comptroller of the Currency. We sincerely ‘hope that the pressure of facts thus brought directly to its notice, that affect the sub- stantial interests of the people, may induce the Legis- lature to restore; Senate bill No.678 to its original text and to enact it into a law that will afford provisional ballot would indeed break a deadlock, but it would J‘amd essential relief, the necessity for which was never more urgent and is not likely to be soon diminished. 1899. MARCH 14, THE RECENT BANK|Feeategia s FAILURES. , Editor Call: The failure of the County Bank-of San_Luis: Obispo is another proof of the want of vigilance or ability on the part of the Bank Commission, This bank was ircorporated as a State bank in December, 1892. The Bank Commissioners’ statement of its condition after their examination on May 18, 1895, was as follows; RESOURCES. Bank premises . .$ 28,622 18 Other real estat: 50,544 53 Invested in warran 564 59 s-on real estate © 260,000 00 Loans, and discounts © 363,089 47 Cash_balances ...... Due from banks and bankers 5,394 38 Furniture, fixtures, etc 2,854 55 Expenses, taxes, etc 38 51 Other assets . TTotal resources. . LIABILITIES. Capital paid up Reserve fund . Due depositors Due banks and bankers Interest -collepted Rents, exchahge, Profit’and loss . State, ‘county or ‘city money Total Mabilities In the “Financial Letter of October 14, 1898, the following was the report by the Bank Commissioners of its con- dition on August 31, 1898: ASSETS. .§ 2,622 18 212,959 44 - 165,559 35 Bank premises Real estate take Loans on real estate . Loans on stocks, bands, etc. Loans on personial security - Money on hand Dué from banks Other assets - Total - Capital paid up .. Reserve and 'surplu: Due depositors .. Due banks and banl ...3630,657 49 Total A comparison of the salient the bank’s condition in May, 1895, and a little over three years later shows the following changes for the worse: First—The real estate taken for debt increased $162,445, making the total amount tied up in unproductive prop- oty (including the bank premises) the large sum of $241,612, which absorbed the whole of the paid-up capital and surplus. _ Second—The amount borrowed from other banks in the meanwhile had in- creased over $19,000 and amounted to a total of $63,082. Third—Unsecured loans drafts were $162,308. Fourth—Money on hand had dwindled to $22,780, which was only 7 per cent of the deposits. Fifth—The deposits had $135,438. In fact everything indicated that the bank had been doing a losing business for the preceding three years and was in a very unhealthy condition. Any competent Bank Examiner would have declared the bank in an unsafe condition last August (if not before), and the Commissioners “:le!‘;e d‘?rflict in their duty in allowing the bank to con- tinue in business. E. J. COLEMAN. March 12, 1899. e e— HOBSON’S PROMOTION. How It Was Brought About and What It Really Amounts To. The promotion, so called, of Naval Con- structor, Hobson is far from being what he and his friends expected it to be. The nomination advancing him from number one on_the list of assistant naval con- structors to number eight on the naval constructor’s list was apparently pushing points in and over- fallen off already advanced five' numbers and be- came a naval constructor June 23, 1808, through the usual process of promotion, his advancement s, therefore, only from N®. 17 to No. 8, as a reward for unparal- leled heroism. Tt has been understood ever since the whole country heard of his exploit and plans«were being devised of how to prop- erly reward such service, that Hobson preferred entering the line corps, and it was quasi officially announced that his place would be last on the list of leu- tenant commanders. In this event and without the intervention of the navy per- sonnel biil just passed Hobson would have become a rear admiral in ten years hence at the age of 39. On June 27 last the Pres- ident, in a message to Congress, recom- mended that the thanks of Congress be extended to Hobson and his fellow heroes, and that the gallant leader be transferred to the line and promoted to such position therein as might be determined. Hobson received the thanks of Congress very promptly, but the advancement to the line aid not follow, and now he gets only an advance of nine numbers in the naval constructors’ corps, equivalent to pushing nine of the constructors down one num- ber each. The service he rendered was in the line of duty as a line officer and not that of a naval constructor, hence his new place should be in the line corps. The entire line, however, was opposed to the advancement of Hobson, and the Crowninshield-Sampson-Cooper combine, which represents the ultra line sentiment against the staff, appear to have chiseled the young hero out of his merited reward. Without the passage of the navy reor- ganization bill Hobson would have re- celved no substantial reward by over- slaughing nine constructors. He would only reach the relative rank of comman- der in 1901 and that of captain in 1920. Under the operatton of the néw navy per- sonnel bill the number of naval construct- ors with the rank and pay of captain is increased from two to five, commanders from three to five and the others are raised from lieutenants to lieutenant commanders. Under this law Hobson will have the rank of commander at once and that of captain on March 4, 1901, upon the retirement of Chief Constyuctor Hichborn. As the chief of Bureau of Construction ts selected from any one of the twenty- two constructors his chances of becoming chief of that bureau with the rank of rear admiral are somewhat uincertain, and even if hé should be fortunate enough to head the constructors’ corps he will be a rear admiral by rank only and not a com- mander in chief of a fleet. That Mr. Hob- son becomes a captain by rank in less than two years is only because of the workings of the new bill, for, as the re- cent recommendation for his promotion shows, he was only to be promoted nine numbers over the heads of other con- structors, with no increase in rank or pay _the latter two only to follow upon re- tirement of those ahead of him: % The Washington clique worked thelr game to perfection and even went so far as to have Hobson ordered to the Phil- ippines where, 10,000 miles away from Washington, he would be powerless to check the plot to steal away his merited reward. In ten months hence, however, Congress will again be in session and Hobson's friends will make an effort to right .the wrong and place him in the corps for which he rendered such signal service and for which he would not have been selected but for eminent fitness above all the other young line officers in the Sampson squadron. AT P : ———— Foresters of America. At the last held meeting of Court Sutro Heights the committee on entertainment announced that all arrangements had been completed for the giving in Native Sons’ Hall, on the 25th inst., of the grand ball in celebration of the fourth anni- versary of the institution of the court. At the next meeting on the 16th the court will be officially visited by one of the grand officers, and on that night the offi- cers will exemplify the work with the guard in new uniforms. There will be sev- eral candidates to initiate. The court has issued a neat calendar for the use of mem- bers. It contdins the dates of all meet- ings for the term, th and other data that will ber of his duty to the court. him up fourteen numbers, but as he had | names of officel sion Opera Hall on th remind the men';‘lwm b’ programine St Santaniite s er of Court t last week in Fresno and found it very active. The ritualistic work was exemplified in a very satisfactory manner bfiv the initiation of a candidate and then there followed a banquet, when several Grand Secretary evening instituted a new court, with forty charter, members, at Walnut Grove, Sac- ramento County. _He was assisted in the work by Grand Sub Chief Judge Hughes of Sacramento. The new court is named Georgiana. e e o e o A0Etrt at Bisbee organized another n B Afiz. It will be known as Court Invin- cible. — e— AROUND THE . . CORRIDORS is at _Henry Fowler, a Napa capitalist, the Russ. W. E. Stevens, a Seattle merchant, guest at the Palace. £ I. Levison, a Rocklin merchant, is stay- ing at the California. Colonel J. A. Hardin, the Santa Rosa cattle man, is at the Russ House. Joseph Powning, a capitalist of ,Brook- Iyn, is a late arrival at the Palace. R. F. Lewls; a merchant of Juneau, Alaska, is at the California with his wife. Charles Erickson, the railroad contrac- tor of Martinez, is a guest at the Grand Hotel. W. A. Veith, a prominent orchardist and vineyardist of Fresno, is stopping at the Grand. J. Murphy has come down from Carson, where he is heavily interested in mines, and is registered at the Russ. Among the guests at the Grand are James McCudden, the Government con- tractor, of Vallejo, and Miss McCudden. Commander C. P. Perkins, U. S. N, and wife have returned from Byron Springs, where they have been spending several weeks, and are located at the Occldental. 46—+ It often occurs in the everyday af- is a SHOATS fairs of life that little thing can A MENACE TO :raduce great re- MINERS. sults either for good or evil. This is exemplified by | a story told by Jim McCormack, the So- nora merchant, who was in the city last week. Jim is the leading purveyor of meats jn his town, and his tale concerns a little pig. “The Vine Spring ranch,” said McCor- mack, “is located a few miles from So- nora, and the head of the pipe line which supplies the water to the Tuolumne Elec- tric Power Company is on the ranch, The rancher -raised pigs for a while, but he doesn't any more. About a year ago a shoat not bigger than a good-sized cat did about $200,00 damage to several peo- ple and pig raising in my section is now prohibited. It happened this way. The electric power company supplied light to the towns of Sonora and Columbia, and also transmitted power to the Rawhide and App mines. One night that cussed little rcoter got to prowling around and began ‘snooting’ into the soft banks of the water ditch just above the pipe line that leads down to the power house. The shoat was an industrious little wretch, and about midnight, when things were lively in town and several hundred men were working in the mines he succeeded in getting through the bank. In another instant the water burst through the break | and the motor at the power house stopped quicker than you can think about it. The seme instant the mines were in darkness, the poker players in Sonora and Colum- bla grabbed for the pots with one hand | and pulled their guns with the other, and consternation prevailed all around. pumps at the hoists at the Rawhide and | App mines stopped work and the men dawn below became panic-stricken. | superintendent of the power house could | not imagine what had happened—the dynamos were all right, no fuses had burned out—and it was some time before ho learned that the trouble was with the water supply. “As soon as possible men were sent up the ditch to see what was the matter, but they went above the place where the shoat had burrowed through the bank, and the trouble was not located until the next day. By that time the lower levels in the mines were full of water (the min= ers were hauled up by hand during the night) and several days elapsed before the men could go to work again. Old Cap Nevills was daffy, and he threatened all kinds of lawsuits, but the unlucky owner of the pig mollified him by signing an agreement never to allow a pig on his ranch. The captain then sought to have | the Board of Supervisors pass a law pro- hibiting the raising of hogs in the county, but there were several farmers on the board, and they refused to comply. “I need pigs in my business, but since that shoat nearly wrecked the Rawhide | and almost inaugurated wholesale Slaughter in the poker rooms I have to go outside the ditch country to get porkers. it is hinted that the miners look upon the succulent shoats as a menace to thelr uv?s and property, and they kill them on sight.” 0. O. Howard, a prominent citizen of Brooklyn, N. Y., is at the Palace, ac- companied by his wife. Mrs. E. R. Spaulding and Miss Spauld- ing, of Santa Barbara, were among yes- terday’s arrivals at the California. Judge John D. Bicknell and Judge James A. Gibson, of Los Angeles, arrived in this city yesterday and are registered at the Palace. . Colonel John T. Harrington, a Colusa lawyer; R. C. Terry, a Clayton land own- er, and R. Robertson, proprietor of Pa- raiso Springs, are registered at the Lick. Armand Cailleau has réturned from a four weeks' business trip to New York City, made preparatory to the opening of his new store at 114-116 Kearny street. Mr. Hugh Boyd, editor and proprietor of the New Brunswick, N. J., Home News, is at the Occidental. He is one.of the most influential journalists in his State,-and his paper has a large circula- tion. Mr. Boyd has spent two months in Southern -California, and is charmed with its climate, scenery and people. He is sending his publication a’series of bright letters descriptive of his experience here. One of these articles has found its way back to the coast and has been repro- duced by the San Diego papers, —————————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, March 13.—L. V. Levison and wife of San Francisco are at the Plaza. R. G. Hanford of San Francisco is at the Grand. Pl YO CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, March 13.—S. S. Bru- ner and E. Bruner, of Los Angeles, and Charles Hartung, of San Francisco,” are at the Riggs House. —————— Friends of the Forest. Monday, March 6, Lincoln Lodge No. 2, Friends of the Forest, held its first | meeting in Occidental Hall, Foresters’ one of the members. There was the elec~ tion of one candidate for social member- shlp.da}l:d lthen the social committee re- ported having completed all arran for the evenfng at home to be ve:rlle‘:: '53“{5?23’ {‘é‘g;} a:ggo;nmlttee was also ap- or an_en and dance to be given in A‘emlfrta.lnment mgex:il:‘eger nlégg%%. at fiu last held ) sever: and decided to _hold an' open a;flggg'éc'?: formation was conveyed (o ths Tt that Y onveyed to the lo Mrs. Mary E. McLane, the fin lhg nel ‘sl:fi retary and ‘also supreme prea?dent. _had been quite ill, and that Supreme Secre- rs, Lena Sholten had just recov< ered from a severe attack of. Ilfnela. This lodge will pay a tmenml visit to' Amer- ica Lodge on the t Thursday in April. Mizpah Lodge will have a social in Mis. bers &nd music for the dance will b be by “Grand Trustee Grimm, accompanied by | the Fourth Cavalry Ptectives Ryan, The’| The building, and it was attended by forty- JUDGE CONLAN [N THE ROLE ~ OF DETECTIVE /oman the ‘anted. B Arrests a E5e 0 KNEW HER BY A GOLF CAPE MRS. MOLE CHARGED WITH MIS- DEMEANOR EMBEZZLEMENT., She Deserted Her Husband and Is Suspected of Preferring a Handsome Bugler at the Presidio. Judge Conlan distinguished himself yes- terday afternoon by discovering and ar- resting a woman who was wanted by De- O’Dea and Anthony on a charge of misdemeanor embezzlement, with two of her companions, a bugler at the Presidio and her husband’s niece. Saturday morning Mrs. A. Burtis, 1269 Union street, who owns seyeral houses in that locality, swore to a complaint before the Judge for the arrest of Mrs. May Mole, who had been one of her tenants at 1273 Union street, on a charge of W(s- demeanor embezzlement. Mrs. Burtis al- leged that Mrs. Mole Friday morning called upon her and asked for the loan of her golf cape, as she was going to the ferry to see a married couple off and would return it in a few hours. Mrs. Mole got the cape and left an adopted child in Mrs. Burtis' care till she returned. She did not come back, and Mrs. Burtis learn- ed that she had deserted her husband and had taken with her all the money he had saved, amounting to $52. It was thought that she had gone away Wwith a bugler at the Presidio. Mrs. Mole’s husband, who is a laborer employed by the gas company, called at the office of the Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Children Saturday and asked their advice as to what he wbuld do with his adopted child, as his wife had deserted him. He was advised to take it to the Infants’ Shelter on Minna street. The warrant for Mrs. Mole's arrest was handed to the detectives and they ascer- tained that Saturday night Mrs. Mole was joined by William Russell, a bugler in Battery L at the Presidio, and that she bought a lot of groceries and meat from a butcher on Hyde and Union streets, which she took to a house in the neigh- borhood. She cooked the meat and she and the bugler and her husband’s niece, Mabel Richards, had supper together. That was the last trace they got of her till yesterday afternoon, when they found the woman in the City Prison. Judge Conlan when he signed the war- rant obtained from Mrs. Burtis an out- line of the story and a description of the cape and the woman. He and Attorney McMartin were walking alang Market street yesterday afternoon and at Sixth street he saw a soldier accompanied by a woman and a young girl. The cdpe worn by the woman attracted the Judge's at- tention and he accosted them. .t first Mrs. Mole denied ber identity, but finally Ccenfessed and said she was on her way to deliver the eape to Mrs. Burtis. The Judge called to Policeman O’Shea, who happened to be in the neighborhood, and instructed O'Shea to take the trio to the City Prison. There Mrs. Mole was booked on the charge of misdemeanor em- bezzlement and Russell and Mabel Rich- ards, a sirl 16 years of age, were de- tained pendin; further _investigation. When searched Russell had $37 50 belong~ ing to Mrs. Mole in his pockets. Mrs. Mole said that her husband had or- dered her to leave the house or he would kill her, and she had done so. The money she took she had worked for, and she considered it as much hers as her husband's . She said that she had gone to friends in Oakland Friday and fad remained there till yesterday morn- ing, when she crossed the bay to see her husband’s sister. ‘There she met Russell and Mabel. Russell is Mabel's sweet- heart. She denied that she had seen Russell Saturday night. ~She begged the prison officials not to allow her husband to see her as he might kill her. Woodmen of the World. March 6 was initiatfon night in Golden Gate Camp, and Clarence Cope, F. A. Michel, Dr. L. H. J. Masson and Joseph McKenna were admitted to mem- bership, they increasing the numerical strength to 906. This is the banner coun- cil of California, and havin attained that honor will do all that its large member- ship can do to prevent another couneil from wresting that from it. rOn the night of the 20th inst. there will be more . work in the line of initia- tion, and on that night there will be an added attraction in the nature of the conferring of the Oriental degree by the team of Western Addition Camp. James H. Garratt, special organizer of the order, has been doing remarkably good work in the past few weeks. He se- cured' for Golden Gate, San Francisco, Western Addition, Redwood and Rich- mond camps an aggregate of fifty-nine men who are now ‘meighbors of wood- craft.”” Garratt is a hustler. Cal. glace-fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_————————— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ To detect oleomargarine from genuine butter a small portion of each is melted in proper receptacles, in which common cotton wicks are inserted and lighted. These will burn freely. The odor of the smoke arising from the oleomargarine is repulsive and nauseating, while that from the butter is faint and inoffensive. — ee——— California Limited, Santa Fe Route. Leaves Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays. FElegant service. Vestibuled sleepers, observation cars. Harvey's Dining Cars through from California to Chicago with: out change. Get full particulars at compan: office, 628 Market st. Dr. Slegert's Angostura Bitters, appetizer.and invigorator, imparts a delicious flavor to all drinks @nd cures dyspepsia. After the guests bidden to a garden party given by the Queen-have withdrawn, the police, with @ staff of beaters, go care- fully through the grounds, examining the interior of the marquees and scrutinizing nooks and retreats in search of lost jewels. Everything that is found in the way of trinkets, sticks, lace handkerchiefs and love letters is forwarded to the Lord Chamberlain’s office S