The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 24, 1899, Page 6

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March, 28, at 12 m,, QUESTION OF APPOINTING SENATORS. ngton that Governor has decided to appoint | to succeed himseli in default of lature of that State may, we | e iridescent dream of an | espondent rather than the settled de- However, there Governor Stone uing a com- or is there anything to prevent the Utah and California exer- with reference to the va- but the prospect of the Senate ccedent it set in the Oregon and tees is too remote to n of a rational man. is ware, ting the appo he principle involved is one which igment, be relinquished by that statute the Legislature is 3 r organiza- on for ijourns without | ¢ held that the legislative will has | The people, through their represen- it they do not want a Senator. | appointeds by the it deliberately red e authoril n to choose Senators, and to as- e people have refused to elect, the authorized to appoint only in by or resignation—may tions and name his personal choice | law entirely. The Senate decided er a thorough debate and a full con- tte. Senator Quay, with all his he to bring to his aid the par- e chamber—would not in e this rule. death cies des of tl le to rev es reverse themselves and legisla- ervative as the Federal Senate often »n, but this usually happens in cases existed or new facts have appeared :0 change the status of the question. Here the reason | parent, and nothing ought to change t a principle founded upon the constitution and the strongest | | RUSHING WORK ON THE GAP. OLLIS P. HUNTINGTON has kept his recent promise to begin work on the gap in the Coast d to push it vigorously forward. It is at large forces of men are now at work ! e between Soledad and Santa Mar- | ening curves and laying new rails, ap itself the contractors are hurrying men to the front to grade the roadbed and construct | he bridges and the viadu | @ reported d tt ng the I ou e at t s to be the intention of rn Pacific Company not only to close the five between Surf and Elwood, but and improve the whole line from San This work is probably necessary in increase of traffic certain to be car- line when it has been made a thor- K k om this that the Southern Pacific man- ave at last awakened to a sense of the situa- ion. The whistle of the locomotives on the Valley Road carrying competition down the whole length | ot the Joaquin has awakened the old monopoly its slumbers and turned the attention of Mr. n from railroads in South Africa to those agers nta Fe system the competition established in the San Joaqu been extended across the continent. zh time for the Southern Pacific to do besides pol Hence the sudden determination of the company to fulfill the aromise made years ago to the men who gave rights | s. | | | | tained eighteen articles, of usual and ordinary news | as a good example, or bad, to the living. He rebukes | | his influence and suffers in his material welfare. { Judas or Ananias { | THE SIGNATURE LAW. HE bill passed by the late Legislature requiring T(hc signature of the writer to a specified class of news, local or editorial matter, printed and pub- | lished in a newspaper has become a law in due form, and will take effect at the expiration of thirty days; from the 21st inst. This law provides that: “Every article, statement or cditorial contained in any newspaper or other printed publication printed or published in this State, which by writing or printing tends to blacken the memory of one who is dead, or to impeach the honesty, in- tegrity, virtue or reputation, or publish the natural or aileged defects of one who is alive, and thereby ex- pose him or her to public hatred, contempt or ridi- | cule, must be supplemented by the true name of the | writer of such article, statement or editorial, signed | or printed at the end thereof.” The penalty clause | provides that for failure to so print the signature m'i‘ the writer $1000 shall be forfeited by the owner, pub- | lisher or proprietor, in a civil action by and in the name of any person who may bring action therefor, one-half to go to the State and the other half to the plaintiff in such action. The passage of such a law has been from time to | time agitated in this State for twenty-five years. It presents a very interesting question, and it is well that \’ the Legislature has opened the way for its decision by the courts. | The expansive nature of the law is very striking. | Its shelter is thrown over the memory of the dead of | every age and country. Under it action would lie against a newspaper for saying, unsignatured, anything | against the character of Nero, Caligula, Suwarrow, Alva, Benedict Arnold, Hyder Alj, Wirtz of Andersonville prison, Wilkes Booth, Guiteau, Jessc\’ James, Sontag or Durrant. It also protects the liv- | ing, from Chris Evans to Mrs. Botkin, to say nothing | of a different class of living people whose offenses cannot be mentioned nor described without impeach- nient of their character. To illustrate its effects: The Call of yesterday con- paper matter, which fall under the provisions of the law. Not one of them was libelous, nor malicious in intent. To comply with the law will make a news- !} paper page look like a hotel register or a subscription 1 list to a charity ball. Various arguments have been made for such a law. Among these are that it constructs an individual reputation for men employed to write on newspapers; that it will build up a school of writers, like a special school in art; that jt will elevate the character of the press, and that it will protect personal privacy from intrusion and publicity. It will do none of these things. To compel a writer | to sign his name only to matter blackening the mem- ory of the dead or impeaching the living, within the | comprehensive meaning of this law, is not to enhance | his reputation or give value to his individuality. wrely it is'a far-fetched argument that a writer who | does not n his article laudatory of the dead and | living is elevated in his profession by this law. In his | caily work every newspaper man, who holds the mir- | , blundering, hurrying world up to asion to use the memory of the dead | ror of this bus; nature, has occ vice and holds the vicious up to hatred, contempt | and ridicule, as they deserve, and he seeks out the good among men, for the newspaper must truthfully | reflect it all. The proie: editorial writers, produce something to sell, and it is bought by the owner of the newspaper. It then sional newspaper men, from reporters to ceases to be their property, and is his property. As | well might the Legislature demand that a farmer shall | put his name on every potato and ca e-head hc‘f sends to market to protect his individu: statutory censorship, which it denies to executive or W | demand of the people for relief the Ministry has taken | defenders of the monopoly were unable to make an | service or refused service at will. | sorts of privileges and repudiated all duty. the courts to act as censors is directly violative of that purpose.” That language stamps the law under discussion as an attempt at statutory censorship. It requires some- thing prior to the exercise of the right to publish, which right cannot be abused until it is exercised. The constitution gives no shelter to automatic, judicial censorship, and therefore this law is void. BREAKING A TELEPHONE MONOPOLY. HILE telephone companies have been grasp- | ing, greedy and aggressive in ' this country, their practices have been mild in comparison to the extortion which the National Telephone Com- pany has put upon the people of Great Britain. Lon- don in particular seems to have been looked upon by the managers as a city given over to their looting, and within its confined they have fixed so high the prices for telephone service that none but Princes, mil- lionaires and Americans can afford to use it. The result of the extortion has been a revolt on the part of the British public. Acting in response to a up the subject, and a few days ago Parliament voted the sum of 2,000,000 pounds sterling to equip the Postoffice Department with a telephone system for London, and at the same time authorized cities of 50,000 inhabitants and upward throughout the king- dom to establish municipal telephones. From a report of the debate on the bill given in a recent issue of the London Chronicle we learn that the effective reply to the charges brought against it, and their only plea was that it would be unfair for the Government to enter into competition with an enter- prise in which individuals have embarked so much of their capital. In moving the bill Mr. Hanbury said the National Company had bought out all other telephone compa- nies and established a monopoly. It claimed a right to go where it pleased or to refuse to go. It gave It fixed prices to suit itself, giving some customers low rates and prac- ticing extortion upon others. In short, it assumed all By reason of the possession of a monopoly the | company has fixed the standard price of telephone | cervice in London at £20 a year, while in the cities | of Continental Europe the price does not exceed | £10, and in Norway the price is less than £3. As a| consequence of the excessive charges Great Britain | is far behind other countries in the use of telephones. | In Norway and Sweden there is ane telephone line | for every 145 inhabitants, in Germany one to every | 140, in Switzerland one to every 170, while in Great; Britain there is but one to every 636 inhabitants. | In explaining the intentions of the Postoffice | Department with respect to the telephone service it * @ * & * & ¥ ® * @ * L4 * bl * Z * ® * ® * ® ES 2 * ® * @ * & * k4 * id * e * L4 * @ * § * & * B2 * | & * @ * @ * & * e * i * ® * would put into operation Mr. H*anbur)" said: ."}\c % paper correspondents at Sacramen do not propose to work on the system of subscription | § The ballots showel . 7 : e ow | & couple of votes were lifted frc f:vnl). ‘We mean to popula-nzc the system ,"*“‘?,‘h“ | hiah suprema effort it open to every person, rich and poor alike. He |9 the fight on a level with Grant. added that a yearly subscription in London would probably not exceed £3. Thus it will be seen that by trying to impose upon London too far the British telephone monopoly has | led to its own overthrow. Just why the postoffice should confine its operations to the metropolis and | leave other cities to establish municipal telephones is ! not clear. The bill, however, seems to be generally | approved, and the Chronicle is sanguine that the | operation of the measure will soon be widened so as to permit cities under 30,000 inhabitants to enjoy its benefits. | | & * 3 % s ¥ * A % s e e HE Army Board oi Inquiry into the matter of | The profession of journalism will be injured by this law. A professional writer enters the service of a| newspaper to find a sale for his command of lan- | guage, his genius in composition, his knowledge of literature, politics, art, science, history and human | character. This knowledge he sel! The newspaper | owner buys it and arranges the use of it, just as a client buys the legal knowledge of a lawyer. A Demo- | cratic paper buys the product of a journalist who is a Republican, and dictates that product in the form of | articles upholding Democratic principles and attack- | ing Republican principles and candidates. Under this law every criticism of a candidate must be signed, and, l when signed, a Republican writer's work on a Demo- | cratic paper loses all value to the paper, for it is not | taken then as the opinion of the paper, but as the mere | personal opinion of the writer. As there is no Demo- | cratic paper in San Francisco this law would make im- possible the employment of any Democratic political journalist here. There would be no market for his | work. . | Similar laws have failed to elevate the character of the press wherever tried. Indeed, that character is | merely a reflex of the character of the community in | which the paper gathers its material for news and edi- torial treatment. Censorship of the press has never elevated its char- acter. Granting that the control of publicity by newspaper is a power of great weight, it is also a power useful to the owner only while used under ex- | actly the same restraints that are upon the control of publicity which arises in free speech. An individual | who abuses the right of free speech habitually loses a| | Another feature of this law which is peculiar and | peculiarly obnoxious is that any one may bring suit and recover under it. An unsigned reference to , ipso facto, a cause of action, and | | \ only the lack of signature need be proved to compel a judgment and put $500 in the pocket of the plaintiff, who takes on the character of an informer. ~ Since the days of Titus Oates and Jeffreys no such opening has been offered to human cupidity and malice. Finally, it is not a law to punish offenses committed. It is a civil and not a criminal statute. Its penalty is civil and not criminal, but it is collateral to the statute | of criminal libel. By signing his article the writer in- curs no legal liability, but it is an admission by the owner of the newspaper that he has publis}-led a criminal libel, and so violates the legal principle that | cften fatal. What more does the board want to find? What | purpose can there be in further junketing? A great | and unforgivable crime has been committed. The | department should wish to shield evil-doers so grossly MOHOROKOKONONORD 1D THE EMBALMED ARMY BOARD. roast beef, rotten beef and embalmed beef has & Six months ago Daniel M. Burns was the mo! speaking, to be found in California. More men His ¢ other one man or to any score of men. T et oo et eSti\te and appeared in every county long arm reached out over the whole convention where there were places to ing. that did his bidding without question, from other sections enough of his followers t whol the his will chine. At last his fated hour came, and he fell into the trap which has proved to be death for many another boss of the same order. As long as his am- bition was confined to the e and definitely; but when he put hims: honor the State has to offer he should occur, would seriously The undertaking could scarcely has. passed along the line of his followe When the vote opened, and it was only twenty-three. whic! lowers contented themselves W the moment things were ready, of t it w of glittering humbug deceived a heard so much, petered The Burns game from t bluff. As political prophets he an showing as the people of this the the gani: has to the State, a tyro in politics, unfavorably cess for Mr. sible method showing made by was yet not one vote above his chief opponent. In addition to his failure, Burns has made himself ridiculous. His s ers who have her come his open and avowe can never again be in State p fore. a Republican that no more of him. LOROHOROROHOKOHONONOKOROROPOHSH IROROKOROKOXOXOXOROKOXOR DROHORDH DX EOROROROROKOROHOHOF HE'S ONLY A HAS BEEN NOW. He was a shrewd, silent, tireless worke: politics his business. seemed to be almost inspired dered at, considering that he immediate followers looked up to much as the poor, ignorant I His influence in the party was, ganization at times to achieve them at other times to cer victory itself was of little val case, that the Southern Pacific Company tages, leaving the people as badly This state of things was not partic party, boss at all, and whi ferent class. She sang as sing the birds at dawn— When sunshine gilds the dewey hills. When to the flushed and amorous morn The skylark’s song in rapture trills. noon, She sang as sing the birds at ambrosial ‘When shadows fill th’ glade, And gentle is the brooklet’s croon, O'er shining strand where Dryads played. She sang as sing the birds at eve, When gold and purple cloudlets sail, And softly now begins to grieve The nectar-hearted nightingale. She sang and listening angels heard. Tears, tribute, from their eyes did fall. I—never heard her sing a word. I read about it in The CaI;L # @*@*@*@*@*@*e*@*@*@*@. e e e <t powerful man, politically who held office owed their at were worth hav- tion a delegation from San Francisco and there were among the delegates o make up a majority of the be distributed th: He brought to the State Conven Ll r. who understood men and made to what was about to happen -ate—which is not to be won- for the most part dictated the process. His him with a sort of superstitious awe, ds his medicine man. on the whole, bad. If he aided the or- ess through his force and skill, he led tain defeat throusgh bad nominations. Moreover, lue when it meant merely, as was often the should enjoy all the direct advan- oft as ever. ujarly creditable to the Republican can get along very well without any der, would prefer one of a very aif- There has been for some time a great deal of chafing under Burns management, but no open revolt. He was too shrewd to make power a subject for offensive boast, and adroitly seemed to follow the O the majority, whereas he was in reality steering the entire ma- His predictions as _they were SO aCCUr ndian regar suecs which is an organization that ch, if it needs a lea flort to find offices for his friends or followers, party, his influence might have flourished in- elf forward as an applicant for the highest took a large sized risk, for a fallure, if it impair his prestige as a political boss. have turned out worse for him than it h of trumpets, and the word was that he would win on the first ballot. discovered that his whole strength was h was less than that of his rival Grant, his fol- ith looking wise and assuring everybody that “Dan would show his hand.” The theory to account for his pitiful showing and as expected that at the proper time it would be called in. This plece great many people, particularly the news- to, who spread the story over the State. d how much substance there was in that theory. A om the Grant camp and one from General to the quiet control of the He entered with a great flourls he “staked-out”” vote was sprung Burns managed to come out at the end of The *staked-out” vote, of which we have out to three and they cut no figure in the result. he beginning has been one of brag, bluster and d his followers make about as sickly a State have ever beheld in any quarter. At end of a struggle lasting through two months and a half, backed by Southern Pacific Company and the whole machinery of the State or. zation, and with the oblique assistance of the State executive, all Burns accomplished is to break even with Grant, the latter being a newcomer located geographically for suc- and with no patronage at his disposal. This paper has nothing to say Grant, who sought to secure the Senatorship by a most reprehen- —but the less one thinks of him the more dismal becomes the the great Dan Burns, who, when he had done all his best, PARPAOARPAPR DK DK OAR PO DK OA DK DA DA DX QAP A DA DK DA DA DADA DK DK DK DA DK DK DA DA DA O A DK OK DK # XK tanding as a political boss is knocked from under Mim. Party lead- etofore preserved a neutral attitude toward him will be- d enemjes and his friends will be lukewarm. He olitics the power that he has been hereto- "\ discredited prophet, a leader that falls down most conspicuously, helps to rob the party of a Senator, the people wi.. have Dan Burns has passed.—Los Angeles Express. KORORPKOROR DA DR DX D I not succeeded in inspiring public confidence. In fact, the body seems to be officially approaching the conditions which militated against the popularity | THE CALI days, but as the signer desires to let off some of the steam—not steam beer, you typos!—of his indignation, this FORNIA PRESS. an ll;e_ meat. The n_lcmbex_‘s‘ha\'e not been treated with | mne mew Railroad Commission is | statute from Agnews will be observed chemicals, but their activ shows symptoms of | made up of railroad men. They know | for this occasion only. In all the wild hurly-burly of a rich having been embalmed. It is true, however, that the investigation has thus far led to an entertaining jun- ket, somewhat expensive, too, as will be found later. It must appear to the unbiased observer that Gen- eral Miles has made out his case fully. He never charged that all the beef was bad, and reputable wit- | nesses have confirmed again and again the charges | he did prefer. They have sworn that beef was chemi- cally treated, but that even this had not arrested the | process of decay. They have sworn that tons of it | had to be buried, as, far from being fit to eat, the very | stench of it was sickening. Army men have testified | that there were maggots in some of the canned meat, | and that such of it as was free from this unpieasant ed! extra was v, disgusting to the eye, unpalatable q sure it wasn't | Mnel = o 2 5 s TS | sign-board men are | ringlets she wafte own to the foot- and mm:n ® 3‘};}: mfien who tried to eat it were | EERTT 1 ey, hence ,he“—ddesxre to| lights iike o masquerade ot Moces Haasl e e . | O Coast Advocate. in and Bill Sykes. Built on the elliptical | ed by illness, generally serious and | remedy the matter—C plan, the audience wondered for amxlggf scoundrels have been exposed. The verdict should | contain the names of all the poison peddlers, and no | influence of wealth or station should permit any to es- | cape a place on a lasting roll of dishonor. Poisoning is the most revolting method of murder, and employed for the lust of gain it assumes its most hideous type. General Miles cannot be termed a popular man, but by his uncloaking a wholesale iniquity he has cer- tainly gained respect and adherents. As to the ap- parent hostility of the War Department, we hope it is based on other ground. It is inconceivable that the yei cu an¢ wantonly criminal, and for it to attempt to do so would injure the administration in the judgment of | the nation, and the nation in the judgment of the | world. | The beef scandal has been the one blot on the record of the war with Spain. The board can do much | to erase it, or it has power to render it indelible. o ma e the The first Kansas City woman who kissed Hobson | is not only a happy bride, but has made 416 other | spooney girls of that town to rejoice with hope and purpose renewed. The men there had vowed never cles. been idle dur past?—Ventura Signal. ago. which side of t with axle grease.—. R Ki 1t would be a glorious thing if old | Sol would cross every week during ti | Pomona Progress. —_— THE MILLLENNIUM SIGHTED. When long delinquent subscribers be- gin to p: itors enough.—Hanford Journal. iy gy = God made San Mateo County, but the One wedding this week and three more scheduled for April in local cir- Who says the God of Love has California will have her share this year of the prosperity which has fa- vored the East since a year or more This is going to be a California and Santa Clara County proposes ar, to head the proc Y. The members of the Legislature who voted to cinch the country newspapers will be surprised to learn that the pull- ing of their finger out of a pail of water leaves no hole. when it is too late that the editors of country memories.—Woodland Democrat. e e “A Tourist” writes the Star a hard account of the morals of San Bernar- dino, which if published would make a rush of the wickedly inclined to that heir bread is buttered Petaluma Courier. |and varied career*from Oshkosh to Shirt-Tail Canyon, the signer has never ND WORDS FOR OLD SOL. met with a body of law-makers so ut- crowd which evolved this misfit. Un- der it a man cannot say that a corn-fed fairy in a vaudeville has more breadth to her beam than brains in her smoke- stack, unless he signs his name to it. And if some cross-eyed, antediluvian coryphee cavorts across the stage like a galloping cow in fly-time, the man the vernal equinox he coming month.— ay up and write nice letters to How would this do in there’ll be good times sure sign his name. a paper: Mile. Rita @' Bonfanti, having been in- formed by some humorist that she can dance, has been trying it on the dog in the interior towns. She Edppeared at the Clunie last night, stripped for the fray. Wearing a smile and a few corckscrew THE SIGNBOARD MEN. ment whether she intended to do a con- tortion act, using her legs for a hoop. But when she smiled and commenced to shake her limbs all bets were declared off. The impossible was about to happen. She was going to dance. Angels and ministers of grace defend us, but what a dance! This eef-ballasted fairy from Brobdingnag Sullivan with the cramps. She w: like a hippopotamus and ph‘ouflte;“fifig B‘x;hilepham.‘ Surgy never was such a s seen since Queen gllgoggngll{lilé\hglg Liliuokalani led 2 2 MON' OREN N’ LR ENCY DE MONT- And then De Montgomery w Yy wo in%alf oft tothnnon Slough for a duz:g' nd leave the porter to stan he]a;"y s d off the ave been requested by the man: ment of this paper—in fact, my job Je- pends upon it—to express my opinion of Morehouse and several other of those legislative freaks. Well, I never did g0 much (:l Morehouse. | wants to shoot anybody doesn’ | pass a series of resolutions ontfl?ge:uéo ject. If ever I follow in the footstep; of any mug for the purpose of slugging him I won't send a brass band ahead ?’r me to tell him I'm coming. I see Private Thinks” the other day said that Morehouse would not shoot at a country barn from behind an ambush He might make a bluff at it, provided he had given the owner a week's notice that he was coming, so that the barn might be removed, or Morehouse be hypnotized away from his gun by a ———— CUPID IN VENTURA. ing the dry season just e A CALIFORNIA YEAR. ession.—San Jose Mer- e NO HOLES IN WATER. They will also discover newspapers have long IS IT ENVY? terly unfitted for their work as the| who calls attention to her cavorts must | ranced around the stage like John L. | A man who | | § | i { and’ wife and P. H. Noonan, Rosa merchant, are registered at city equal to the hegira to Klondike. concurrent resolution. e 7. THD SAN ERANGNED O FEIDAT. Mamem ot v . =0 HO -\/_\/ MELBA SANG er should desire to make her seamofthy and sail her under t hgdwould have to make repairs to her amounting to three-fourths her value. If the vessel is in good condition and does not need any repairs or alterations, the owner must apply to Congress for a spe- cial act to ennh?e him to fly the American flag. NILA—T. J. F., ew York to Port Said making a from New NEW YORK TO MA A City. The distance from N Port Said is 5135 miles and from to Manila, P. I, is 6466 miles, total distance by that route York to Manila 11,601 miles. TELEPHONE MESSAGE—A. Beni- cia, Cal. There has been telgp:mfllsl clgen:; munication on a direct wire betwee Yorléc.:nd Boston, 1259 miles. The longest line in commercial use is between Pon& land, Me., and Chicago, via Boston an New York. COTTON MILL—A. K. City. There never was a cotton mill in the vic_inity of Folsom and Sixteenth streets in San Francisco. In 1871 there was an institu- tion known as the “Cotton Batting Fac- tory” on Brannan street, between Third and Feurth. MONTE CRISTO—H. T. C., City. The “Count of Monte Cristo,” by AleEander s, was written in 1844-45. umas DU rote o sequel 1o it, as the work is complete in itself. “The Son of Monte Cristo” and “The Countess of Monte Cris- to” were not written by Dumas. LANDS IN NICARAGUA—R. D., City. For information about puhéié‘ lands and agri Nicaragua address a com- agTiculture o Wo L. Merty, Envoy Ex- traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Managua, Nicaragua. X Calderon_0 San Francisco represents Honduras, Ni- caragua and Salvador. A MINING CLAIM—S., Benton, Mono County, Cal. If a locator should locate and mark the side boundaries within twenty;five feet of the center of the lode, that would not invalidate the claim and reopen the site to relocation. He must keep within the limit fixed by general or local regulations. ANOTHER LICENSE REQUIRED—B. G., City. If a couple were married by a Justice of the Peace and subsequently the Wife should make up her mind that such & marriage was not as binding as if per- formed by an ordained minister or priest and shBuld desire to be married by one or the other, the parties would have to take out a new icense, f»htalmn% the same wherever the parties desired. There is no law against a man marrying his own wife. THE TIGER LILY—Several friends ot this department have furnished the in- formation that “The Tiger Lily” was written by Julla Schayer and can be found in Scribner’'s, November and De- cember, 1880, and January, 1881 Another friend writes that “The Tiger Lily; or the Woman Who Came Between” is by Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller and is to be ob- tained from book dealers. Still an- other correspondent writes to inform this department that ‘* ‘The Tiger Lily’ was written by Sidney Lamir, a Southern writer of distinction, and may be had at any local bookstore.” AROUND THE CORRIDORS F. M. Carnegie of Pittsburg Is at the Palace. ! Sheriff T. M. Brown of Eureka is lo- cated at the Russ. S. Blum, a merchant of Juneau, Alaska, is a guest at the California. T. R. Hostetter, a prominent medici manufacturer of Pittsburg, Is at the Pal- ace with his wife. George F. Cummin, a flour dealer of Ta- coma, and H. Guernsey, a cattleman of Golconda, Nev., are at the Li W. H. Knox, a capitalist of Minnesota, a Santa the s Russ. Dwight L. Moody, the eminent revival- ist of Boston, Mass., is at the Occidental accompanied by his assistant, D. B. Towner. T. L. Haynes, S. D. Porter and George W. Tapley, accompanied by their wives, have registered at the California from Springfield, Mass Mme. B. Gadski, mother of the talented prima donna, now performing with the Ellis Opera Company, will leave for New York on Sunday. D. J. Zan, a merchant of Portland, Or., and W. H. Boot, superintendent of the Pullman Palace Car Company in Oregon, are registered at the Occidental with their families. B. F. Shepherd Jr., a Fresno druggist, H. H. Blood, a Nevada City mining man, C. M. Hartley, a Vacaville fruit grower, and Dr. W. C. Reid and wife are some of the arrivals at the Grand. M. Amanuchi, representative of the largest paper mills in Japan, has returned from a European and Eastern trip, where he has been observing methods in the paper mills in the principal cities, and will return home on the steamer China. The result of his inquiries will be put to prac- tical use by the paper concern with which he is connected. —_————————— Cal. glace fruit 5c per Ib at Townsend's.” e~ Special information supplied dally t business houses and public men Ly the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 e ——— He Just Couldn’t. (to Gilbert, aged 4)—Put your Doctor tongue out, dear. Little Gilbert protruded the top of his | tongue. Doctor—No, no; put it right out. The little fellow shook his head weakly and the tears gathered in his eves. *“ can’t, doctor; it's fastened on to me.” —_—————— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty years by mothers for their children while Te perfect success. It Soothes the child, sof the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Coli ulates the Bowels and is the best reme farrhoeas, whether arising from teet other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 5c a bottle. HOTEL DEL CORONADO—Take advantage of the round-trip tickets. Now only 80 by steamship, including fifteen days’ board at hotel; longer stay, §8 per day. Apply at 4 New Montgomery st., San Francisco. About Even. “You lost a good deal of time from vour ‘business by going to war, di answered the man Wwh teered; “but I doubt whether 1 more than some of the peopl g0 have lost arguing over it."—W: ton Star. ADVIRTISEMENTS. The foods we eat furnish energy for the body just as burning coel makes steam to furnish testimony | ; 8 : I'm not much on the write, but I or an engme. The Star doubts the wisdom of adver- stand for what I say about Morehouse, tising vice and leaves it out.—Pasadena G e e e | a man cannot be compelled 3 to marry any girl who so far forgot herself as to It is shown by these results that the promoters of the Valley Road were not only enterprising them- selves, but were the cause of enterprise in others. They not only broke the monopoly of the Southern Pacific, but they broke its stagnation. They induced | n other departments of the company than e of law and politics, and Mr. Huntington has seemingly given orders for his men to “get a move on” all along the line. If a man is not to be responsible when he directs | 1i¢ horse over a pedestrian he has no right to drive. Street cars go almost every place, and anyhow th »alking is good, and if idiots quit driving there will se an end to useless traged The peace officer who killed a boy at Colma has | Seen held for murder. He is lucky not to have been 1eld by means of a rope. | the press. | the stage by Mr. Daly. On application an injunction | against himself. So, too, it is statutory censorship of While Durrant was on trial a dramatized version of the incidents of his crime was prepared for was issued against him by the Superior Court to re- strain the production of the play. In the proceeding to vacate the injunction the Supreme Court of the | State was reached, and there it was held that the Su- perior Court had exceeded its jurisdiction. The court said (see Daly vs. Superior Court, 112 Cal. 06): “A court, even of equity jurisdiction, has no jurisdic- tion to enjoin the production on a theatrical stage of a play which represents scenes or facts connected with a homicide, even while the person accused of the homicide is on trial for murder. The right to write, speak or publish cannot be abused until it is exer- cised; before it is exercised there can be no respon- sibility. The purpose of this provision of the con- stitution was the abolishment of censorship, and for | | | | i | salute with her dewy lips the hero of the Merrimac. Now the initial offender is on a wedding tour, the spell is broken, the curse raised, and the promised crop of old ‘maids nipped in the bud. Two mothers-in-law rec@ntly united in an effort to run the family affairs of a newly married couple, and | the speed with which they ran them into the divorce | court argues much for the potency of the scheme. | Removal of the leper colony to Molokai would ! probably be satisfactory to the patients. At least Hawaii has always made a point of treating lepers to the luxury of a roof under which to sleep. | | While the police seem to have done well in nabbing | certain boy burglars, they have not nabbed the sec- ond-hand dealers who bought the booty and who must have known it to have been stolen. i Star. —_———— MEN, RAISINS AND GRAMMAR. The Los Angeles Evening Express heads a paragraph: “Fresno Raisin We are glad to hear it. That's what we need more even than corn or oats. However, there should be a “g” to that verb, shouldn’t there, dear con- temporary? Or has some one on your staff contracted the present prevailing epidemic of Anglomania? We like to hear our representative newspapers of the State use good grammar.—The Santa Barbara. —_— SIGNING THE ARTICLES. Of all the stupid legislation that has ever cursed the State of California the Morehouse signature bill takes the cake in fact, it commits burgla: e ey glary on the The law does not take effect for thirty —_————— | ANSWER. TO CORRESPONDENTS. and I sign myself, OWEN McKEON, Signature Editor of S yaily and Weekly Bee. e —Sacramento Bee. OCTOBER 14—J. §., City. October, 1843, fell on a Sa(urd:'\{walx:t‘iht:f same date in 1853 fell on a Friday. s BLOCK TIN—A. S, City. At thi none of the tin mines of the United ss[t:‘x;: are being worked, nor have they bee: worked since 1896. e PARTS OF SPEECH—A. and There aro mine paris of EpsectiIn e il glish language—noun, pronoun, article verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, con. junction and Interject, : CHANGING FLAG—J. J. 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