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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1899. Call 800 THURSDAY.. ..MARCH 23, 1 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S F Telephone Main 1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS. .2I7 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Copled, 5 cents. Terms by Mal, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (Including Sunday Call), one vear. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 6 months. DAILY CALL tincluding Sunday Call), 3 months WEEKLY CALL, One Year. All postmasters are authorized to recelve s Sample ocoples will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE.. ...908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. ...Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Roprescntative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.........Wellington Hotel €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE................. ..Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery streat, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 62! McAllister street, open uptil 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2991 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open uptll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk strect, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets. open until 9 o'clock: AMUSEMENTS. Columbia—*Rob R Grand Opera Ho Tivoli—*The Mikado. omeo and Jullet.' Orpheum—Vaudeville. , Alhambra—*Le Belle Marde."” : Chutes, Zoo and Free Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and eveni, 8. Olympia—Corner Mason and Ellis streets, Speciaitles. Cen Park—The Steeplechase. AUCTION SALES. ay at 12 m., Real Estate at & Co.—This t This day at 11 o'clock, at 628 York VERY BAD POLITICS. HE demoralization produced among the Tplu)es of the Harbor Commission by the at- tempt made in the fate Legislature to reorgan- he board is not likely to abate for some time. No ad the bill legislating the commissioners out of office been rejected by the Senate than Governor Gage appointed F. S. Chadbourne to take the posi- ged to have failed to qualify. This appoint- lid, with that of Mr. Kilburn, who has al- e of President Colnon, would | ggling to get possession of the 1age control of the commission. thus attempted by act of the Legislature | the appointment of a Har- | n get his place only after | mated b nissioner who ¢ | ¢ it is difficult to predict exactly what | ill be adopted in seating Chadbourne b; Governor and those who are urging him to thus t branch of the public ser- 1 and Chadbourne set up a commission to Harney and Herold there will of se be two Harbor Commissions, with two sets of cers, two corps of emplo aind a cloud of injunc- ranto, restraining orders and ) In short, work upon the ont will be permanently suspended. ate session of the Legislature the em- Harbor Commission spent the greater The attempt to s, writs of quo prohibition: ter During the ployes of portion of their time at Sacramento. dispossess them of their places not only induced them | to contribute heav to an expense fund, but to tem- porarily abandon their duties for the less important work of legislation. Of course the impending im- broglio will not cause a repetition of this contest, but it will quite as thoroughly demoralize the employes and put an effectual stop to the business of the board. Exactly where Governor Gage is going to find profit in thus upsetting an important arm of the gov- erhmental machine would be hard to determine. If he has any political ambition it certainly cannot be promoted by such a usurpation. If he has no poli- tical ambition, but has been elected merely to secure berths for Republican “workers,” he cannot expect to earn the gratitude of even that class, for, win'or lose, they are bound to reproach him. Intelligent men who do not consider public office a private snap but a trust which the office-holder is bound to dis- charge with a conscientious regard for the verdict of history, if not the opinion of his contemporaries, will generally disapprove of the Governor’s action in this matter. WONDERS OF ARKANSES. HE story from Arkansas of the discovery of the ruins of a city which must once have contained 11,000,000 of people has the merit of lnréen:ss and novelty. Anybody can go to the back counties of any State and discover mere villages, but to find a city of these proportions is out of the ordinary. They are They had no system of Eleven million people are a good many. all dead now, and no wonder. drainage, had not learned the beauty of filtered water, knew nothing of antiseptics, nor had learned how to operate for appendicitis. If 11,000,000 people were to be in one city to-day they would pay attention to the laws of sanitation or they would die, too. The yarn from Arkansas possesses many points of erest. If it is true, probably a search among the ancient structures will reveal much concerning a race which is hardly more than tradition, and if it is base- less, Arkansas can at least claim one of the finest liars extant. The Ru committed the crimes for which Dreyfus is suffering denies his guilt. The world would pay respectful at- tention to any corroborative evidence he may have at | command. A large eclement among the Spanish are glad that the Philippines have been lost. And a large element among the Americans are sorry they were ever found. The fact that the pool-sellers do not like Captain Lees is one of the greatest hits the Chief of the Po- Jice Department has had an opportunity to make. Unfortunately there is no way in which the prize contests of the evening newspapers can be declared public nuisances. Havana seems to accept the American situation with about the difficulty that an English funny paper jokes. ; em- | an official who is charged with having | THE BLACKSTOCK RESOLUTION. Y the adoption of the Blackstock resolution the B Railrcad Commission has put itself in a situa- tion from which it can emerge only by one path. There is but one official act it can periorm now without violating the logic of the position—only one step that it can take consistently with the record. That one path open, that one act to be performed, that one step to be taken, is to resign. The Blackstock resolution was adopted avowedly in the interest of economy. The report upon which the resolution’ was based declares expressly that an cffprt to enforce freight rate regulations is too costly to be expedient. Referring to the suit involving that guestion, which is now before the courts and has been prosecuted for about three years, the report says: “I am further advised, as appears by the records and by the report of the Attorney General to the As- sembly, that up to the present time there has been paid and incurred in counsel fees and expenses in this case more than $43,000, the counsel fees alone amounting to more than $33,000, and it further ap- pears from like sources that the future costs and ex- penses of this litigation will be at least $67,000, $30,000 of which will be required as fees for experts and $30,- 000 as fees for special counsel.” | So for the sake of saving that amount of money | the commission abandons the cause of the people, stultifies itself, surrenders to the railroad, throws to | the winds all the money and work expended in the | past in making the fight, and then seeks to conceal i from the public the true nature of this betrayal of trust by giving it the popular name of economy. | Bad as the thing looks, the people will accept it with a fair degree of favor if the. commissionérs will carry their doctrine to a useful conclusion and take the only logical step left them. There is another economy to be carried out—the commissioners should | resign and save the taxpayers the expense of their salaries. It will cost the taxpayers of California $48,000 for salaries, besides incidental expenses, to maintain this :Blackstnck commtission, and since it has now de- | clared itself impotent and useless so far as.the regu- | lation of railways is concerned, there is no service it | can render the people which will be worth forty-eight cents. Ii the commissioners have any regard for ecanomy they will resign and turn their unearned | salaries back to the State treasury. If they do not resign they will give the lie to their own words and show themselves in sad need of whitewashing. The taxpayers of California have paid out much money for the Railroad Commission and have de- | rived no benefit from it. Some former commissions | have tried, or at least made a pretense of doing so, to render service to the people. The present commis- sion, however, does not cven make a pretense, for the rider to the Blackstock resolution, providing that the board shall meet in April to fix and promulgate a schedule of grain rates, doesn’t amount to a pre- tense. In fact, the impotence, the worthlessness, the nothingness of the commission, has been reduced to its final element by the recent act, and the only way for the Blackstock gang to save the situation is to re- sign and get out of it. — THE LATEST KANSAN CRISIS. WING to the skirmishing in the Philippines and the Senatorial battles in various State : capitals the country has to some extent over- | looked the legislative grand opera season in Kansas | this winter, and has thereby missed some very novel performances. The Kansan troupe seems, in fact, to | have been as brilliant as ever, and was deserving of | considerable attentior. | We pointed out some time ago that an effort had been made by a wise member of that body to put an end to personal pride or antagonism in legislation by requiring that all bills be submitted in a strictly 1 anonymous way. The proposed reform was defeated, but a new crisis has arisen in which the desirability | of eliminating personalities is so apparent that every | man involved in it is in favor of having it treated i anonymously. In fact, the press itself seems to have | taken the same view, and we have not been able to | learn the names of the men who have been most con- | spicuous in its complications. | It appears that for a long time it has been found | necessary at each reassembling of the Legislature to completely refurnish and equip the legislative halls. No matter how large the supply of law books, sta- tionery, chairs, inkstands, etc., furnished by the State at any one session, it has always been necessary to purchase a new supply when the time came for the | next session. | It has been a perplexing subject to the Kansans to | know what becomes of all these supplies. A blizzard has never been known to clean out the legislative | halls, and yet the equipments - vanish each year as | completely as if forty blizzards had swept them. | To solve the problem the Executive Council of the | State took the precaution this year of placing a de- tective at every exit from the Capitol, with instruc- tions to see that no public property was taken away, d now the mystery is cleared up. From this proceeding has followed the latest crisis in Kansas and the general desire on the part of the | legislators that the discussion of its incidents shall | be strictly anonymous. It appears the detectives found much to do. Anonymous gentlemen were de- | tected going home not only with clear consciences, | but with typewriters, law books, inkstands, boxes of envelopes and reams of paper; some even had chairs, and one man had a desk. Most of the depredators are regorted to have been legislative employes, who when halted declared they regarded their spoils as a part of their perquisites. It is stated, however, that almost every member had | something in the way of a souvenir, and one or two quite prominent men were among the heaviest of the | raiders. This sort of a crisis is so much an outcome of strictly Kansan conditions that it could not possibly occur in California, and yet it is so intense in all of its incidents that to a good many people it will ap- pear like something that might possibly have hap- pened at Sacramento if there hacd been any detectives there. a | | The Salvation Army and its offshoot, the Volun- teers, have been making worldly faces at each other in the East. Of course this is their own affair, but people who make faces can hardly be in a mood to snatch brands from the burning. It is cheerful to observe United States vessels sa- luting the Spanish flag. Only a short time ago the sight of that emblem would have caused them to have turned loose a broadside. | So Teller is certain that Bryan will be nominated again. This is good news. Doubtless it will cheer Bryan as well as every Republican who happens to notice it. § The introduction of a profc;sional hangman into a murder trial may have had an effect, but it certainl, was not that of cheering the prisoner 5 i BELMONT @ND BRYAN. HE disposition of Mr. Bryan to examine the mouth of a gift horse, in the shape of an invi- tation to a banquet in honor of Thomas Jeffer- son, has again thrown all the Democratic fat in the fire. £ The man from the Platte has caused it to be under- stood that he is nasty nice about the platter he feeds from, and the company that gathers around the same. The Democratic Club of New York. consisting of three thousand members, none of them any special kind of Democrats, but all just plain Democrats, de- siring to assure the shade of Jefferson that he is not forgotten, engaged a caterer and a banquet board for that purpose. The table, however, is designed to be something more than a temporary resting-place for solid food and liquids to wash it down. It is to re- semble a battleship, in that it is a platform from which to fire guns. These are not to be used with smokeless powder, though one of the ingredients thereof, to wit, alcohol, will be in them. They are to be the great guns of oratory, and they are to roar in behalf of the campaign of 1900. As Mr. Bryan is a rifle of that kind he was invited to be present and get his tompion out and limber up and crack away at any craft in sight. But he took the precaution to request of Mr. Bel- mont a working plan and specifications of the kind or kinds of Democracy to be present, and also to in- quire if Mr. Belmont himself had experienced any change of heart or head since he goldbugged in 1806. To this Mr. Belmont replied, in effect, in the lan- guage of the Kentuckian, that when one gentleman invited another gentleman to partake of spirits with him the purpose was sociability and not catechism. So the banquet will be plus the spirit of Jefferson and minus the flesh of Bryam. The incident would seem trivial except for its bearing on future politics. Mr. Bryan is of the opinion that he is the finest piece of Presidential timber in the forest preserves of the Chicago platform Democracy, and does not pro- pose to permit any comparison with the taller timber which grows by itself on the gold-Democratic reser- vation. The well-intended overture of Mr. Belmont, intended to get the former members of the party to- gether and fill the split between them with victuals and drink, has been rejected with a 8corn and con- tempt which will rankle for many a day. Mr. Bryan is on his bright, shining way, holding m the ranks such doubtful Democratic States as Ala- bama, Mississippi, Georgia and Tennessee, and feels no need of feeding and drinking to unite the small goldbug faction with the heavy Democratic majorities in Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Connecticut. As for campaign funds for 1900, the goldbugs are not wanted on the list. In the last conference at Chi- cago, attended by Bryan, Coin Harvey, Altgeld, Towne, Dubois and Teller, it was settled that Coin Harvey should go on collecting a dime a day, and that the sum thus accumulated shall be reinforced by the sale of the “Thomas Jefferson segar,” to be manu- factured in Chicago and handled by a dealer who di- vides the profits with Mr. Bryan's committee. These segars will not be smoked at Mr. Belmont’s banquet, but no 16 to 1 Democrat will suck any other. The profits are expected to be enormous, for all other brands are to be boycotted. It is with diffidence that we stggest an enlargement | of this fine idea. Where is the Jefferson brand of whisky and beer? Let it be brought out at once and let the clay of the new Democracy be moistened with no other. More terrible than an army with banners will be the Bryan hosts of 1900. Filled with Jeffersonian spirits and puffing the only Jeffersonian segar, they = will move like a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, and when their march is ended the gold- bug will be as lifeless as his congener and ancestor, the bronze scarabeus, wrapped up in coal tar with the mummies. THE LADY AND THE SIDE DOOR. OS ANGELES has a Police Commission ap- parently marked by austerity and a sense of right which admits of no compromise. The body is also sotherwise peculiar. Mayor Eaton is a power in the commission, and he has views. the side entrance to saloons is an instrumentality of evil, because it lures the feminine rounder to quench her thirst in an atmosphere not conducive to the pro- motion of modesty or morals. So far as this posi- tion is concerned the Mayor will find a ready support. However, there are reformers who will stand aghast at Mr. Eaton’s declaration that a woman has as much right to go into a saloon as a man has, but that she should go in the front door, line up against the bar, name her favorite tipple and toss it down as a2 man would. It does not seem that the Mayor would compel a thirsty lady to go dry, but he would deny to her the luxury of secrecy. Probably his idea is that rather than cross the threshold to a saloon with the glare of the public eye upon her the woman would appease with a glass of innocuous sodawater her yearning for refreshments. There are saloons in this city where the plan is in practical operation. Most of them are on Barbary Coast, and the female patrons walk right in the main entrance, nor seem embarrassed if observed. They mingle with the men on terms of perfect equality until such time as opportunity arises to administer knockout drops to the male. Then he knows no more. Later he awakens to find that his money has vanished. It is hardly possible the Mayor of Los Angeles would advocate this style of saloon. It really is not a benefit to the community. The time for some of the men and women who neglect their children, leaving the little ones to chance and charity, to be punished for the crime seems to be due, or possibly overdue. Such cases are frequently discovered, but discovery is too apt to be the end of the matter. Bryan is about to open a new campaign. He is going to unnecessary trouble. He has already been the hero of the only campaign in which he can cut a considerable figure, and he did not get much out of that. RS AR S, ) Even their anxiety to publish news ahead of the morning papers was no justification for the evening sheets in announcing the death of John Sherman. P S O Creelman will have to get out of the Philippines before anybody will believe the story from there that the natives want to burn prisoners at the stake. Probably Aguinaldo could not better please Otis than by attacking Manila. There is an anxiety to get the man within rifle-shot. Havana is getting accustomed to the sway of the police. The lesson is a hard one, and is keeping the morgue busy. ecimoan L Announcement is made that two fighters about to meet are “fit as fiddles.” But all fiddles are not fit. Among these is one to the effect that | fifififlfififififlflfififlfifififlfiflflfi&flfi{(finflfin)}fifi SMALL COMFORT FOR COSPER. Friends: with ‘me that I did the right thing yours, as the embodiment of all that is of Tulare as a distinct betrayal of profound humiliation to his party no explanation from Mr. Cosper is shall, without making comment at reasonable space in the columns of fegegeg=gegagageRegetoRet et g T Ragutet et ReB et RoBel SACRAMENTO, March 18, 1898. For the best of reasons, too long to explain here, and to break the deadlock, I voted for Colonel Burns to-day. Kindly withhold any adverse criticism, no matter what t! papers may say, until I see you, which will be soon.. You will agree It is not the policy of the Register to condemn without a hear- ing and yet we will not disguise the fact that Mr. Cosper’s voting for a man for United States Senator who stands in the public mind politics is at this time perhaps universally regarded by Republicans maintained until the last his entire trustworthiness in the face of all criticism. Although The expressions of opinion so far heard are that and ask on his behalf that considerate hearing which the law and an American sense of fairness accords to all men accused of treason against the best interests of the State. court of public opinion.—Tulare Register. bed fog=g-ggoeg-F-3--F-2-3-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F:-F=F=-F-F-F-F=F-F=F =3 =] —Fditors Register—Dear Sirs and he’ city at the right time. Very truly E. T. COSPER. most objectionable in American trust and certainly is proving a friends who supported him and desired or will be listened to, we this time, place at his disposal a the Register for a reasonable time Let him havehis day at the VOGOV OBOOVGOOVAUVVYVBUO UL H U B U CARE OF ASPHALT STREETS IN GERMANY The treatment of asphalt streets here in Breslau is entirely different from methods employed in the United States. For instance: One man has charge sulate. His tools for keeping the streets clean are as follows: of four squares in front of the con- An iron hop- per wheelbarrow, a shovel, a broom and a rubber scraper about three and a half feet long. about four inches wide, a quarter of an The Tubber is fastened in a vise-like wooden clamp and is inch thick and very stiff. This man during the day is continually going over his four squares, taking up the lit- ter and keeping the streets thoroughly clean. having cleaned the street, he takes his Early in the morning, after wheelbarrow, loaded with very fine, sharp sand, and scatters the same with his hands or a small shovel lightly over the streets to prevent slipping. Should it be'a rainy day he repeats this process several times during the day. so that they cover the whole street at Once a week two sprinkling cars are sent out alongside of each other, one time with water, washing the same thoroughly. Immediately following the sprinkling cars come four one- horse roller brush sweepers, about two feet in diameter, sweeping the water, slime, etc., into the gutter, when the same is piled up and carted away. Then the man who has charge of those streets comes along with his wheelbarrow and sprinkles sand all over the street. In spring or autumn, when the streets are often sloppy or wet, the washing is done several times during the week. I am informed the washing is done for the purpose of removing the slime, which the asphalt seems to leave, and to keep the street from being slippery; also for the preservation and hardening of the asphalt. The man who has charge of the asphalt streets is paid 22 pfennings (5 cents) per hour. 18 pfennings (4 cents). Ordinary street hands are also paid per hour and receive All streets are kept in excellent condition, the shopkeepers or tenants not being permitted to put sweepings on be taken up and put in a box kept for The city has wire baskets fastened the pavement or street. that purpose. on lampposts, against houses, fences These must or trees, in which the public may throw waste paper while walking along. 1t is very rare to see any waste paper eral take pride in keeping the streets sweep the streets to the center of the 6 o'clock. Thé litter is piled up and on the streets, as the citizens in gen- clean. - The householders have to street regularly every morning before carted away by the city teams. ARZOIEI;ID THE | CORRIDORS W. R. Spaulding, a Truckee lumberman, is at the Lick. J. F. Condon, a Nevada City mining man, is at the Grand. E. Remmelmeyer, a_Spokane mining man, is staying at the Palace. Alfred S. Miller, a capitalist of Phila-| delphia, is a guest at the California. J. Henry Bratten, a Philadelphia mer-| chant, is a late arrival at the Palace. | Charles E. Aull, an iron manufacturer‘ of Pittsburg, is registered at the Occiden- | tal. | Governor Gage came down from Sacra- | | | | | | mento yesterday and registered at the‘ Palace. Rev. L. J. Garver of Butte and A. W. | Simpson, a Stockton lumber dealer, the Occidental. Edgar T. Wallace,'a Eureka mining | man, and R. E. Hyde, a Visalia banker, are registered at the Palace. | J. C. Turner and John McKea, lumber | dealers, respectively of Red Bluff and | Sissons, are located at the Russ. | John Raggio, who operates stage lines in San Andreas, and A. C. Eisen, a vine- | yardist of Fresno, are at the Grand. | Dr. M. Hutchinson and son of Los ‘An-| geles and B. F. Porter, a cattleman of | Porterville, are among the arrivals at the Russ. | J. G. Scoit, owner of the Lick Paper | Mills at San Jose, and R. G. Barton, pro- | prietor of the Fresno Opera House, are at the California. 1 Lieutenant F. H. Schoeffel, U. S. A..| Ninth Infantry, is registered at the Oc-| cidental with his wife from Madison Bar- racks, Sacketts Harbor, New York. Judge George A. Nourse of Fresno, Wil- llam Squires of Calistoga, owner of stage lines in that locality, and J. C. Sims, a | prominent citizen of Santa Rosa, are at the Lick. Commander George C. Reiter, U. 8. N, | Lighthouse Inspector of the Thirteenth District, with headquarters at Portland, | Or., is registered at the Occidental. His| district embraces Oregon, Washington and Alaska. He will take an examina- tion at Mare Island to-day for promotion to the grade of captain in the lighthouse | service, and will return to Portland to- morrow. Otto E. Never, proprietor of the Paso Robles Hotel, is here for a short stay and is registered at the Palace. Mr. Never says: “The late rains and the re-| sumption of business by two of the banks | that closed their doors recently have re- | stored the confidence of the people in and | around Paso Robles, which bespeaks an era of prosperity for that section.” The Russ House was the scene of a wedding yesterday afternoon, when two of the guests, Charles C. Ralph and Min- nle C. Richter, were married by Rev. Frank S. Ford of the First Christian Church. The contracting parties are both residents of Sacramento, Mr. Ralph being a well-known.and capable pilot on the river boats. After several days’ honey- noon In this city the couple will depart for their home, where the groom has | provided a handsome home for his bride. A re———— CALIFGRTIan~ IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, March 22.—Felix Brun- schwig and wife of San Francisco are at the Martin. ——————————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE BERKELEY, Subscriber, City. The upper works of the Berkeley were placed on her at the Union Iron Works. FROM SATHER STATION—P. R. B, City. The distance on the electric line between Sather station, Alameda. and Leona Heights is four and a half miles. JEWS IN FRANCE—H. R., City. What the Jewish population is in France at this time and what it is in Paris cannot be iven for the reason that there has not en a religlous census since 1872 are at ‘ VISITING AT SAN QUENTIN-O. L., City. Visitors are admitted to see the prison at San Quentin any day in the week, but to see any particular prisoner the garty $0 desiring must write to the ‘Warden, who will fix a day. ARMY WORK-—A. 8., City. A woman who desires work on army contracts on blouses and pantaloons must make appli- cation to the contractors. The names of these can be obtained at the supply de- partment on New Montgomery street. DAY'S LENGTH—G. A.- L., San Rafael, Cal. The question in relation as to why, after the 2ist of December, when the days number of days rises later than on the 21st, would require a long technical an- | swer, which would occupy more space | than’ can be devoted in this department | to one question,- but it can be briefly | stated .that the days are longer by reason of the fact that during that period the | sun sets later than it did on the 2ist. MATES AND MASTERS-T., City. The United States law passed January 4, 1899, | and which goes into effect July 1 follow- | ing, prescribes that all masters and mates | | of salling vessels over 700 tons must be licensed. | SCHOLARSHIPS—;AnV)V(iVnuS Mother, Of.h Menlo Park, Cal. As to scholarships fer young_girls, there are those offered by | Mrs. Phebe Hearst at the University of | California. For information about these write to the recorder at the university, Berkeley, for a circular of information. SELLING MEDICINE—A. 8., City. A person who desires to sell medicine can! offer it under any name that he desires, providing the particular name has not | already been chosen and registered as a | trademark by some one else. To sell medi- | cine the seller must take out a license. SHARKEY-JEFFRIES FIGHT—A. P. P., Huron, 8. D. Tom Sharkey aad Jim Jeffries fought twenty rounds in the Me- chanics’ Pavilion in San Francisco, May 6, 1808, Alexander Greggains was the ref- eree and he gave a decision at the end of the twentieth round in favor of Jeffries. SANTA ROSA TREASURY CASE—A. O. S., City. In the matter of the bonds- men of the Santa Rosa County Treasurer | who was robbed there has been an argu ment in relation to the responsibility of those bondsmen, and it has been sub- mitted in the Supreme Court. A decision may be given any day. AN OLD BILL—P. K., Oakland, Cal. A bill having a face value of ¢ shillings and § pence issued by the Provisional conven- on of Maryland, held at A; lis, De- cember 7, 1715, 15 WOTth Just whas an Indi- Vidual would be willing to pay for it a8 & curiosity. There i | curios e is no fixed value for such | SUCCESSION IN CALIFORNIA—H. K., Los Angeles, Cal. If a man dles In California without having made a will, it he was married, his property goes first to widow and children; if there are neither, it goes to father and mother, and | if theré is neither father nor mother then | it goes to brothers and sisters. THE BALDW THEATER—-M. E. P., | City. The prices at the Baldwin Theater just before the fire were: Downstairs, | $1 50; three first rows of the balcony, $1; rear seats in balcony, 75 cents; r Seats 35 cents and % cents. The prices of s:a(shof {)}:elo(gex;) theaters asked about | can be abtained by gof - office of each. gt EAGLE CITY, G. S. C., Pacific Grove, Cal. Postal service in the Alaska district | s very irregular because of the condition of roads. Mail from Eagle City may" reach San Francisco, while mail for Eagle City may be delayed for reasons that can be explained only in each individual case. If letters are registered 15 etten areiresl they can gener- MAIL TO DAWSON—Subscriber, Eu- reka, Cal. Mail for Dawson City may be deposited In the postoffice at any time. It s forwarded north as soon atter It Is so deposited and then trane mitted to Dawson at the first opportunity. Qwing to conditions, it Is impossibie to » uninterruptes fo'that piace can be Catablisheq rication REVENUE STAMPS—E. F. V., City The denominations of the decuworin sy dtamps under the war revenue are: Haif a cent, one, two, three, four, five, ten, twenty'five and fifty cents, $1, 33, §5, $10 and $30. The proprietary stamps under the same act are: One-elghth, one-quar. ter and three-eighths of a cent, one, one and a quarter, two, t o Aloaciey, . two and a half, four THE POLYCLINIC—F. V., Cit: Polytlinic of which you Vasts dngaiie ie establis] or the pu e of givi treatment to .the paor‘:polif a.ngh"lg;glfl'uma\ is earning just enough to pay living ex- enses he may be treated there, but if e 1s earning sufficient to enable him to %:)‘(:nxt)hg:;cl‘gn he vgll not be treated. The L pay 25 cents for - seription. Mnke_gppllculon at te::ho f‘.i. lA V:‘OLXN—V. M., City. vice that this department can give y in regard to a violin that is lnmneedyoo‘; repairs is, if it is an instrument of value, to take it to a professional repairer. If you attempt to reg‘n_lr it yourself without any knowledge of how to do the work re- quired, you are likely to ruin it. Still the instrument is your own and you are :vt“hlilb}erty to do whatever you wish The only ad- A CITIZEN ABROAD—Subscribe: T, City. eAi cl!her'\ o(hthe United States in acf;g- n port, whether native born o = all zet{ if In need of protection rcnr;atg;_ tain the same from the United States Minister or Consul at the place in which he may be. Upon the statement in vour grow in length, the sun for a certain letter of inquiry, it is so indefinite that | is impossible to determine whetherath‘: | irm he would not require a licens | known to chemists as spongy platinum. | sufficiently firm to bear handiing. Consul at the place named was justified or not in refusing you the protection you asked for. POLICE PATROL—A Stranger, Cincin- nati, Ohio. There is nothing in the laws of the State of California or the ordi- nances of the city and county of San Francisco to inhibit any one from engag- ing In the business of a private patrol system for the protection of property. The patrol system in San Francisco is not a police patrol, but a private system of watchmen. who look out for fires and see that burglaries are not committed in the district they cover. The business is a legitimate one. A WOMAN'S RIGHTS—L. L. C., San Lorenzo, Cal. What rights a. woman has in the case where a man has acknowl- edged her as his wife and paid bills con- tracted by her is a matter that would have to be determined by a reputable at- torney upon presentation of all the facts This department does not give legal a vice. - It will state what the law is as lai down in the books, but will not undertake to tell people what they should do in cer- tain cases. LICENSE—J. H., City. If an individ- ual should receive household articies from the East that would retail for sl each and should offer to sell them in this city he would have’to have a license, but if he received such articles and used them to sell by sample for the I he sold the articles at a fixed los he would have to pay a license of per quarter. Agents carrying a sample stock of the value of $100 would not have to a license, but if they sold the stock they would have to pay a SHIPPING SAILORS—A. C. F., City. This correspondent asks: “If a sailor ships for a voyage can he leave the ship at an intermediate port and demand pay for his services? If a captain ships a crew to take his vessel from one port to another, can he stop short of the port of destination and discharge the men against their will?” The answer to each of these questions is that it all depends on the terms of the contract. Generally, if a sailor should ship, say for a round vovage, he would not be entitled to any compensation if he left the vessel at an intermediate port; likewise, the captain and the ship would be liable for a failure to comply with the terms of the contract. THE VOTE FOR GAGE—A. S., and C, City. The following will show the official vote for the following candidates for the office of Governor at the election held.last November in what is known as south of Tehachapi: Harri- Ma- County— man, Los Angeles. 497 Orange 3 Riverside . 5 69 San Bernardino. 2,658 98 San Diego... i 208 Santa Barbara. 2. 95 Ventura ........ 1, 57 These figures give Gage a majority in those seven counties of 4781. Kern Coun- ty, in which Tehachapi fs located, gave Maguire a majority of 163 over Gage. INTERNAL REVENUE DISTRICTS— T. N. H., Pacheco, Cal. There are two internal revenue districts in the State of California—the First and the Fourth. The salary of the Collector of the First, whose office is in San Francisco, is $4500 per year, while that of the Collector of the Fourth, whose office is at Sacramento, i3 500. The term of office is four years, or until the successor of each Collector is appointed and qualifies. In the First Dis- trict are the counties of Alameda, Cala- veras, Contra Costa, Fresno, Inyo, Kern, King, Los _ Angeles, Madera, Merced, Mariposa, Mono, Monterey, Orange, Riv- erside, San Benito, San Bernardino, San Diego. San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara. Santa Cruz, Stanislaus, Tulare, Tuolumne and Ventura. All the other counties of the State are in the Fourth District. BICYCLE AND HORSE—A. M., Ci The following are the best bicycle an horse records for one mile: Bicycle—Sin- gle safety, flying start, America, profes sional, 1:31 Major Taylor against ti Philadelphia, November 6, 1883 b5, W W. unpaced, time, ama- lle, Hamilton against , November 4, 18 H. G, Gardiner, Loui mber 4, 18%: England, prof > J. Platt Hetts against time, May 9, 1893; amateur, 1:39 2-5. C. , same place and date. Standing ‘America, professional, 1:41 2-5, in Taylor, Manhattan Beach, N. Y., September 27, 1897; amateur, 115095, againist time. Ofto Zelgler. Louts: ville, Ky., November 6, 18%5; England, pro- fessional, 1:44 against time, J. W. Stocks, London, September 11, is¥; amateur, 54 15, ., ‘Ingram against time, Lon: don, July 23, 1896 The best records by 1:35!5, Salvator, 4 years, 110 pounds, straight track against time, Monmouth Park, N. J., August 25, 18%; {rotting, sin- gle harness, 2:03%. Alix against time, ac- Companied by runher, Galesburg, IiL., Sep- tember 10, 1894; pacing, 1:59%, Star Pointer, against time, accompanied by runner, Readville, Mass., August 25, 1807, PLATINUM—E. G. S., Livermore, Cal. There are two methods of obtaining plati- num from the ore. One Is known as the |Wnlla.ston. The chief steps are as fol- ows: After removal of the metals associated with platinum - by the successive action of nitric and hydrochloric acids the platinum f{tself is dissolved in aqua regia, frgn which it is pre- cipitated by a solution of sal ammoniac in the farm of a sparingly soluble double salt, am- monium platinochloride. This salt is washed and heated to rednesss, by which the chlorine and ammonia are expelled, leaving the metal in the form of a gray Spongy soft mass, In this form platinum cannot be fused into a compact form by ordinary furnace heat, but, like iron, it ean be welded at a high temperature. Ac- cordingly it is made into a thin paste with water, then introduced into a brass mold and subjected to graduated pressure, by which the water is squeezed out and the mass rendered It is then dried, very carefully heated to whiteness and hammered or eubjected to powerful pressure. The Deville-Debray method.—This is a_very simple furnace. Two flat pleces of quicklime are scooped out, representing two cupels, and form the bottom and the 1id of the furnace. The lower cupel has a notch cut In its side to serve as an exit foF the liquefied platinum. The upper one is plerced at its center with a elightly conical round hole, through which the (platinum) nozzle of an oxyhydrogen blowpipe enters, so that the flame beats down on the metal within. — ee—— 0l1d Dutch, Flemish, gray, carbon. Eng- lish and natural oak moldings for picture frames in new and odd shapes at Sanborn & Valil's. > 155 Louisville start, competition, Major horse—Running, —_——————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per ™ at Townsend's.® ——————— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephbne Main 1042. * —_———————— IN KANSAS. The Wife—Oh, dear! I wish my hus- band would enter politics. The Woman—What for? 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