The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 30, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 30 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propretor. hddress All Communigat: s to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. Market and Third Sts., S. F. ephone Main 1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS. T PUBLICATION OF! Single Copl Terms by Mall (including L (including Sunday Cail), {ncluding Sunday Call), 3 months ingle Month One Year.. One Year. 2 re authorized to rece! be forwarded when T ‘OAKLAND OFFICE....... NEW YORK OFFICE ..908 Broadway . Room 188, World Building | DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative, 9221 Stevenson Street | ! AN EXPLOSIVE PARALLEL. commander of the on the dike ot a fleet the anish forces, Requesens, stood Schakerloo to witness the departure of | under Romero which was dispatched to relieve Spanish army, commanded by Mondragon, that had been shut up in Middelburg by the army of Netherlands. A salute was fired in his honor, but its sparks reached the magazine of a large ship, which blew up and destroyed every soul on board. Vhen Mr. C. P. Huntiggton arrives in San Fran- cisco, if he is given to figurative parallelism, he will be able to turn this historical incident to profitable | The war of the railroad upon the people of | California is as wanton and as arbitrary, and its methods as uncivilized, as the protracted attempt of Philip of Spain tQ destroy the liberty of the Nether- lands. It is true that Philip only occasionally left his capital to survey the fields that Alva desolated, and it is also true that Mr. Huntington only occasionally leaves New York, which is the seat of his govern- | ment, to observe the devastation that the railroad | their Western campaign. | [N January, 1574, the grand S; account. in WASHINGTON (. C.) OFFICE .Wellington Hotel C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE ..Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. | ERANCH OF open un 30 o’'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until ©30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin strect, -open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. £5i8 Miss street, open untli 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock: 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner. Twenty-second ana until 9 o'clock. i | | | | Kentucky streets. open: AMUSEMENTS. Opera Company,-Sat i Free Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon | s streets, Spectalties. AUCTION SALES. | | —— | | d—This day at 11 o'clock, Furniture at Butterf t lau & C. at sale Friday, March 31, at 11 o'clock, | AN EXCELLENT IDEA. t some legal method will be the members of the Ilate tion can be made financially re- created in the school fund 1i ever legal retribution These men money intended for | it was found that neither | whom they had made contracts iori ers whom they had fleeced were | to be paid they insolently swaggered out of | nd demanded of the people to know what they | hoped I mn. st in their cases. edly all these men profited by their two e in the School Department. The “rake- | in which they | and “divvies” yielded them handsome he ringsters in one job alone must have al thousand dollars. We refer to the lease of t oln School lots, which was sold out- right. If some legal method of making their bnndv; men respoasible can be devised, not only will the | teachers recover a portion of their money, but a pre- 1 be set at once valuable and instructive. ch Schoca Director is under a2 bond of 5500(7,4‘ The total for the twelve is $60,000, which would, if | collected, . give the school-teachers and merchants | about half of what is coming to them, provided the bills of the latter were discounted 30 or 40 per cent. It might be #hat a proceeding of this sort would take | » or three School Directors in the late board undeserving of castigation, but that would not be an | It would teach respectable men to re- sign when in the future they become associated in public office with thieves. As each School Director | is on his own bond as principal, ‘a judgment against | the bondsmen would cover whatever gains he may | have made during his term. Thus, if any one of the late band of educational rascals has property it could be taken from him and sold under execution. The experiment is one well worth trying. . Not conly would it, if successful, serve as a lesson, but it would give the school-teachers security for their salaries, even against a band of thieves such as lately nearly wrecked the School Department. g l Gage, out of the batch of bills left in his hands upon the adjournment of.the Legislature, has se- lected all he intends to sign and transmitted them to the Secretary of State. It is further stated that he has left the capital for a vacation and will not return, although he has until to-night at midnight, under the constitution, in which to make further selections. Probably’ the ‘Governor thinks he has weeded out and signed all the good bills, but there is at least one still in his hands to which his attention ought to be called, since he still has time to sign it. We refer to Senate bill 202, which provides for a change in the manner of impaneling Superior Court juries. This measure has already been discussed in these columns, | and nothing remains except to call the Governor’s at- wention to it and urge him to give it further considera- tion. The present method of selecting jurors in courts of record in this State is loose and unman- ageable. It has bred a class called “professional jurors,” and by loosely delegating the power of se- lection has made jury-fixing possible, and as a con- sequence unjust verdicts are not infrequent. Senate bill 202 will, if it become a law, abolish pro- fessional juryism,.and, by limiting the period of ser- vice and removing some of the objections business men have to acting as jurors, attract to the box a more reputable class: The change has been indorsed by the Bar Association, the County Clerk of this city and county, many of the Superior Judges and re- spectable attorneys generally. The character of the reform proposed by this measure will justify the Governor in reconsidering his determination to sign no more bills. The paramount duty of all citizens is to aid in getting fair trials in the courts, for be it known that liberty pines in those tribunals a long time before she expires in its dungeons. Governor Gage's responsibility at this juncture is greater than that of most men, because he now possesses.the power to give effect to a piece of legislation which will go a fong way toward making a change for the better. ez s s drawdowns” 1 probably div cleaned ur sever Lin in tw nmixed evil. SENATE BILL NO. 202 T is announced from Sacramento that Governor At a San Jose prize-fight one set of seconds drew pistols and the other knives. This was certainly an' improvement upon the ordinary fake, for it intro- duced the desired element of exciterflent. E ——————— There are enough gentlemen ¢laiming to belong to the Harbor Commission to assure lively times on the i\\'hcn Daniel M. Burns and his compact and di ICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, | | | liminary the causes of the | . . quiry, to be followed by a court-martial and a sen- forces e wrought ip- attacked the Legislature at Sncmmcmo.‘j instead of a speedy conquest they found themselves | i by the Republi and for nine weeks houts they were held in an iron grip. .\When | urrender was close at hand the Grand Democratic | icans attempted to salute was dis- | 1 Iined army ns, Commander of the railroad Reput send reinforcements and a very noisy charged in his honor, but the ma ind the railroad vessel blew up and destroyed every | politician on board. There are various ways of extracting a moral from conditions or facts that are more or 1 Mr. Huntington, through his natural and his prolonged experience, is an adept in drawing We suggest that he apply his powerful mind to the late Senatorial deadlock and to its dis- astrous consequences.. Somewhere or other within the range of his authority there is a serious respon- azine caught fire analogous inferences. lity to be fixed. The Republicans were victorious, but assuredly there were traitors ‘within their ranks. Another campaign is in sight, which will be unusually important. The railroad volunteers, repudiated by the regular army, need reorganization, and as a pre- late defeat should be While Mr. Huntington here and his associates are clustered around there is an excellent opportunity for a court of in- thoroughly investigated. is tence. S C————E T WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. IGNOR GUGLIEMO MARCONI, a young | S Italian, now in his twer th year, has ap- parently succeeded in the task of making wire- less telegraphy of practical value. His system has | been subjected to severe tests, and, according to re- | ports, has proven itseli equal to the difficulty of | overcoming stormy surmounting hills, buildings or the curvature of the earth, and of trans- | mitting messages to a distance of thirty-two miles. When the Marconi experiments made for weeks during the stormy weather of last winter off the coast | of England showed that messages could be sent without wires for a distance of twelve miles through | the air, no matter how windy or foggy or rainy it | might be, it was generally recognized that we were about to enter upon a new epoch in the history of telegraphy. Since the results now obtained by the | experiment gf sending messages across the Bri'.ish‘I Channel from South Foreland to Boulogne there can no longer exist any doubts of the great utility of the | invention. The new epoch has begun. One of the notable features of the Marconi system is the simplicity of its construction and the slight weather, { the | | and other organs and supporters of expansion have “cutgrown.” . While nations governed upon the im- | perial model, not excepting Great Britain; are driven | to their wits’ end to find new fields for their surplus | population and to extract profits from subjugated colonies to provide for their domestic necessities, the internal expansion of the United States has hardly commenced. With the opportunities before us, if we allowed ourselves to drift into the imperialistic cur- | rent, to turn our backs upon our own history, to re- verse our own precedents and practice, and to enter upon a career of conquest such as we are now un- fertunately if necessarily illustrating in the Philip- pines, we might as well shave the locks of Columbia and allow her to lieas prostrate and as enfeebled before the imperialistic combination of Europe as Samson at the feet of Delilah. The merchants and other business men and indus- trious citizens who have allowed themselves to be at- tracted by the glamour of expansion, if they will ap- ply themselves to the examination of our late com- al and financial progre will become recon- ciled to the abandonment of revolutionary schemes. The more fully they comprehend the actual past and the actual present of their own country the deeper will be their appreciation of the prophetic wisdom of the founders of the Government and the more fixed their determination to uphold our constitutional tem. The time is not far distant when the voice of the people will be heard and understood by party leaders throughout the Urtion and when the Asiatic policy of the expansionists will be stifled by the Americanism that prefers freedom, independence and natural development at home to imperial ascendency in distant quarters of the globe. i, e e m———— FINANCIAL LEGISLATION® [ House Committee on Currency and Banking, is no longer a member of Congress. He was seldom in harmony with his committee, and this lack of agree- ment caused the omission of committee meetings for a long time. He was the author of a peculiarly com- plicated bill for a banking system, and was not toler- ant of any other proposition. At the same time he had but little faith in his own measure and appeared rather as an obstructionist than a promoter of legis- lation to simplify our tangled and complex financial statutes. His final expression of opinion at the re- cent adjournment of Congress was highly character- istic. Admitting the bad conditions of our financi stem and its capability at any time to do mischief and injure the public credit, yet he declared that its rcform would be the death of any party attempting it. Notwithstanding this morbid view of the situation, the effort for correction is now in more promising shape than it has been since Mr. Carlisle called atten- tion to the sinister operation of “the endless chain.” A committee of the Republican joint caucus of Con- gress is charged with the work of framing legislation to definitely affirm the gold standard as the perma- nent policy of the Government, and to take the treasury out of the banking business, and to provide a soundly safeguarded banking tem which will flexibly adapt itself to the currency and credit re- quirements of all parts of the country. It is not now known whether all these steps will be taken at once, but all will naturally and necessarily follow the first. The sound money sentiment of the country is as 1l as it was in 1896, and does not pro- pose to surrender a foot of the ground which it has gained. The Sound Money League 13 still active, and the Indianapolis Monetary Conierence, represented by its executive committee, is in touch with the joint caucus committee. That executive committee meets in New York on April 7 to put in shape the purposes of the conference. ' The Secretary of the Treasury is in active sympathy mer HE rather eccentric Mr. Walker of Massachu- setts, who was for many amount of material required to put it into operation. | The messages are transmitted from what is called a| vertical conductor, that is to say, a wire whigh is run | up to the top of a pole or a lighthouse or any other | object standing high above the landscape, To trans- | mit a message eighteen miles a conductor eighty feet; high was found to be sufficient, and it is claimed by | the inventor that with a conductor placed at a point | 114 feet high a message could be transmitted to a dis- tance of forty miles. The simplicity of the apparatus and the slightness | of its materials are likely to produce important re- | sults. There are comparatively few parts of the world | where there is not some hill or tall tree rising fifty | or sixty feet above the general landscape, and there- | fore the telegraph operator of the future will have | only to provide himself with that amount of wire and | a small battery to be able to send messages at will‘l for a considerable distance. He has only to climb | the tree or put up a good-sized pole on the top of the i hill, string his light wire and put his battery into | operation, and the thing is done. This will give spies a powerful aid in their work in | future wars. Messages can be transmitted over zhei head of armies by telegraphers miles away in the | rear. British or French spies could send dispatches across the channel at any hour of the night and theg chances of detection would be slight. It is possible, | in fact, that the invention will start a new epoch in [ more things than telegraphy. PROSPERITY @ND THE CONSTITUTION | HE weekly reviews of trade published by Brad-j Tstreet and by R. G. Dun & Co. are safe guides | to a correct appreciation of business conditions | in the United States. Last year, as has been fully proved, was the most prosperous in our history. In truth, it was phenomenal. But this year, judging from the facts and the figures in the two reviews above mentioned, it is likely that all records will be sur- passed. In February alone manufactured exports ex- ceeded those of the corresponding month in 1898 by more than five millions, while exports exceeded im- ports of merchandise by more than twenty-three mil- lions. Iron and steel to meet the demand cannot be wmanufactured with present facilities, and wheat, lumber and wool command ready sale and good prices. . These are mere hints of a wide range of facts that can be analytically studied in statistical columns, but which constitute an eloquent exposition of natural advancement under republican government. As a further indication that is unmistakable, manufacturing establishments in New Hampshire, in Maine, in Ohio, | in Wisconsin, in Rhode Island, in Massachusetts, in Iilinois, in Connecticut and in other States, have vol- untarily raised wages from 5 to 10 per cent. It is apparent, therefore, that the United States has reached the point of commercial and financial su- | premacy, and that, unless wantonly thrown away, its record-breaking history will be indefinitely con- tinued. The only drawbacks to our prosperity are the enormous expenditures caused by our late war with Spain, which, if closed now, it has been conserva- tively estimated, would have cost a billion dollars, and the unrest and the desire for change that it has gener- ated. The accumulation of wealth and the increase of intelligent and enterprising citizens on this conti- water ireat segacdien «f #e stase of trade. | nent are due to the constitution that the Examiner | others appear ridiculous. and co-operation with the movement, and is not lulled to inattention by the apparent decline of the It is perfectly well understood by politicians that whatever collateral issues are be- friended by Mr. Bryan are intended to be used only to catch votes to get into power in order that his pe- culiar financial ideas may be forced upon the country. In view of this obvious plan of his campaign it is ab- solutely necessary that every statutory peg upon which he hangs that issue be pulled out now. The statutory power to reissue greenbacks, or to enlarge the volume of the original issue now out, should be taken away. When the war revenue bill of last year was before Congress it was demonstrated that the Bryan party intends to pass bevond free silver at 16 to 1 and to enrich its financial programme by in- dorsing an issue of paper currency, with its redemp- tion feature limited or entirely absent, and its volume regulated by that indefinite boundary, “the needs of the country.” It is this intention that moves the Secretary of the Treasury to say that *‘it will be wise for the sound money forces to hold themselves in line to oppose any fresh attack of the kind that was so successfully resisted in 1896.” It is expected that the executive committee meeting in New York City on the 7th of April will furnish a programme which will attract the attention and crystallize the sentiment of the country. free silver issue. e Illinois has imitated California to the extent that some weak-minded legislator has introduced a fool bill similar to that which made Morehouse, Gage and Probably imitation will end at this point. Writers for the newspapers will sign their product when they choose to do so, and not all the chumps ever elected to office can change the programme. ‘We are now told on “reliable authority,” doubtless emanating from a “distinguished statesman who pre- fers that his name be not mentioned,” that during February the United States offered the Philippines to England. Excellent evidence that the report is base- possession of England. of the Filipinos through having had to open his en- gagement in the islands by killing a lot of Spaniards. Otis did not get this chance, and when at times he has had to demean himself with unfriendly violence there have been no Spaniards to suffer. — . Kansas people have just lynched a murderer. Of course this was wrong, but as Kansas goes regularly | through the farce of sentencing murderers to death and then permits them to die of ‘old age, the exist- ence of mitigating circumstances must be admitted. The parricide who has just been sentenced to death in Kansas need not make a fuss about In that State a sentence of this kind is as dignified and sol- emn a bluff as ex-Senator Peffer. The manner in which recruiting for service in the Philippines progresses. makes the fact evident that Uncle Sam will have as many soldiers as he needs. They won't be fed on carrion, either. 1f Aguinaldo will surrender only with the capture of his capital, he will have to be made prisoner. He can carry his style of capital under his hat. ears chairman of the | less exists in the fact that tlie Philippines are not in | Possibly Dewey won his way into the good graces | CALIFORNIANS ~ JGAIN READY T0 VOLUNTEER Will Gladly Answer a| Call for Troops. 'THE QUOTA WILL BE SWALL THIS STATES SHARE MAY BE LESS THAN ONE REGIMENT. i | Reports From All Over the Country Show That More Men Will Ans- wer Than the President ‘Will Call For. The rumors that the President is about to call for 35,000 volunteers have caused a | great deal of speculation in army circles, | the ranks of the National Guard, in the | office, the workshop and the home. | California has freely given four volun-| teer regiments to the service of the coun- try. Her thousands of young men have | stepped from the ranks of civil life to don the blue and follow the flag. They have marched away to a foreign shore— many of them never to return. Now comes | | another call, and with it the question, | “Will our young men respond freely to the call as betore?” | This question w: inson yesterday afternc moment and replie necessary question. The be not ‘Will our men go g | will the Government accept first call came for volunte year ago, the boys of the M rushed into tie army. them met with disappointment. They | were disbanded without haying had a | chance to show the stuff everybody knows | they are made of. The bill reorgamaing the National Guard has recently been passed, and they are now going back into their old companies. know the boys to state positively put to General Dick- He smiled a o but ‘How many When the | , about one | ational Guard | well enough, howeve that should the Government ask for a thousand men from California three thou- sand will offer their services. Why, those boys who did not get an opportunity to | g0 out to the flelds of battle will never zet over their disappointment. Uncle Sam fias Dut to hint that he wants men, and you will see our boys leaving the farm shop to pick up the rifle. Cali- 1 easily furnish more men than she did before, and the National Guards- men are ready, as they have ever been.” At the headq < of the adjutant ge | eral of the De £ California the [ matter was als | though no definite infor from this source until advices are re- i from Washington. It was the gen- mpression there that in case the call is made it will be made on the same basis former ones, and California’s pro rata will be less than a_thousand men. It is not expected that the National Guard or | the Naval Reserves will be called upon | as a body. In fact, the Naval Reserves | will In all ‘probability be out of the ques- tlon altogether. As for raising the requl- r sed, al- nation can come site number o in the country, no di ficulty whatever Is anticipated. 'If a State 's unable to furnish pro_rata | the ranks will be filled th volunteers from other States. Private and official ce from all parts of the | country s that thel a declded sur- plus of material from which soldiers may | be made. T phointment of Califor- e | nia’s Sixth, Seventh and Eighth regi- | mentsis still fresh in_the minds of army people, and ft is also known that in New York City 1200 men who wished to enlist have been turned away. Taking it alto | gether, it is plain that the Government | can get all the men it needs without re- sorting to the draft system or offering NATIVE SONS PLEASE | UNIVERSITY MEN | HEARTY INDORSEMENT OF THE ENDOWMENT IDEA. Faculty and Student Body Give Cor- dial Response to the Project for a New Chair. BERKELEY, March 2.—The project of the Native Sons to endow a chair of Cali- fornia history at the State University is meeting with a cordial response from the university faculty and student body. As announced in The Call recently several of the prominent Native Sons in | the State have started a movement to | contribute $100,000 toward the establish- | ment of a new professor’s chair at Berke- | ley. They intend to take the matter be- fore the next meeting of the Grand Par- lor, and if possible to make the endow- ment an official action on the part of the order. The department which the leaders | of the movement have in view would be {known as that of California history, and it would aim to carry an exhaustive re- | search into the historical records of the | State from the very earliest times, to | collect all the avallable data on the Sub- | ject and, as far as possible, to undertake | @ regular course of instruction for stu- | dents interested in that special line of | ‘work. When the news of this generally known at university it aroused considerable interest. Both | the faculty and the students manifested | a disposition to welcome it heartily. | | Comments of the most favorable kind were made on all sides. Although bene- factors have appeared from time to time, | and with their ample wealth have found. | | ed permanent professorships in various | | subjects, such, for instance, as the Mills | | chair of moral philosophy, endowed by D. | |0 Mills, and the Agassiz professorship | | of Oriental languages and literatures, es- | tablished by the late Senator Tompkins, the fact that the new department pur- posed springs from the Native Sons as a | body all over the State constitutes it something quite unique, and the interest | 1t evokes differs from the passing atten- | | tion which other gifts have met with. | | President Martin Kellogg looks for- | ward to a favorable action on the part of the Grand Parlor. He said this evening: | “T sincerely hope that the movement may | rove successful. We should be only too | | %rojcct became | the | delighted to have such a chair in the uni- | miles. The money was divided as follows: vers'ty. 1 consider it a most admirable | Anderson, Wwith a record of 1304 miles; | 1 ‘ Reves, 124 miles; Derrick, 69 miles! and Pro. -sor Bernard P. Moses, head of | Peralto, 586 1If by the question “Which | | the cupartment of history and political | economry, regards the plan with great en- | thuus asm, Nothing could be finer,” he | remarked. “Some of the originators of ‘!h(! scheme have been In communication | | with me, and I have assured them that | the idea is not only practicable, but may | prove of immense importance in investi- | gating a field of history as yet so little explored. The study of the question should go back to the very earliest period of Spanish settlement. It might ‘even go beyond that. With the libraries of San | Francisco and the old landmarks of early | settlers we have first-hand Information | of inestimable value. doubtless be placed under one general de- | partment of history and a special in- strul((:tor engaged who is qualified for the work.” | Thomas R. Bacon, associate professor | of Buropean history, said: “The project is of more than ordinary importance to the subject of history. Not only is the | field of almost unlimited extent, but many of the documents relating to Spanish set- | tlement and American exploration are not ' being preserved, and these should be se- | cured and examined at once. Bancroft did pioneer work in this direction, but there is still much to be accomplished. ‘We need a competent investigator to give his time to this special question. The en- dowment of $100,000 is quite sufficient to | provide for the chair.’” Among the student body the same im- pression prevailed, and the outcome of the movement will be watched anxiously. The subject would George B. Polhemus Insolvent. George B. Polhemus of San Jose filed a { Fino, Sis | at the Russ. Three regiments ot | ¢ bounties. | D. C | with a first-class book-seller. | straighter. | and upward. etition in Insolvency ye!terday in the Inited States District Court. His liabili- ties are 323255 and his assets $6%. Of his debts, $10,488 are due to the First Com- mercial Savings Bank of San Jose, and $5000 to W. H. Lamrock. AROUND THE CORRIDORS W. F. Lunt of New York is at the Oc- cidental. J. R. Bane, a hotel keeper of Santa Rosa, is at the California. lamber | F. B. Chandler, a prominent dealer of Elmira, is at the Lick. H. B. Gillis, ex-District Attorney Yreka, is located ,at the Grand. George D. Butler, a well-known citizen of Yreka, is staying at the Russ. G. M. King. a mining man of Rossland, | B. C., is at the Occidental, accompanied | by his wife. | tlick, a business man of Oro cou County, is a late arrival Reginald Gibson and wife of New York | are here on a pleasure trip and are regis- tered at the Palace. Dr. D Smith, who is connected with the | apa . Hospital for the Insane, is quar-| tered at the California. | Louis F. Breuner, a large furniture dealer of Sacramento, is making the | Grand his headquarters. | G. Hyatt, who operates extensive machine shops in Stockton, and his wife,‘ are guests at the Grand. | George K. Smith, a lumber dealer of St. Louls, is registered at the Occidental | with his wife and mother. | A. F. Dougl of London, England, who has been visiting his ranch at White River, Colo., is registered at the Palace. C. F. Taylor, a fruit buyer of St. Paul, Minn., and W. A. Wiechmann, a jewelry | manufacturer of New York, are regis-\ tered at the Lick. | M. E. Dittmar, editor and proprietor of | The Searchlight and Mineral Wealth of | Northern California, is registered at the Grand from Redding. Mrs. J. E. Keeler came down i rvatory on Mount y morning and engaged lifornia. John B. Farish, a mining expert of Denver, Colo., who represents the Roths- in their mining properties in this| is at the Palace. Charles F. Bixby, a business man of Buena Park, and George A. Stewart, a | banker of Los Angeles, are making the Grand their headquarters during a short ay In the city. Frank L. Coombs of Napa, who has come to this ctty to assume his duties as United States District Attorney for the Northern District of California, is regis- tered at the Grand. C. P. Huntington left Houston this morning, and before coming to San Fran- cisco will probably visit Mexico. General | Hubbard will be at Ogden to-morrow and from the Hamilton | apart- ] 3 = g5 | is due to.arrive here on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Miles P. O'Connor of San Jose are visiting this city and are guests at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. O'Connor will leave for an extended European trip soon after Easter. They expect to spend | about two years on the Continent. . e CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, March 28.—H. C. \Varwlck" and George Knight of San Francisco are at the Imperial; Mrs. Joseph Hutchinson of Palo Alto and J. S. Hutchinson of San Francisco are at the Fifth Avenue. | e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE BANK COMMISSIONERS—F. P., | Mendocino, Cal. The office of the Bank Commissioners of California is at 530 Cali- | fornia street, San Francisco. | TRANSPORT ARIZONA—A. S., City. | To ascertain how long the transport Ari- | in quarantine at Manila you to address a letter of inquiry | Department at Washington, | PHILIFPINE LITERATURE—W. H! H,. Ferndale, Cal. A person desiring to | | obtain authentic reading matter about the | Philippine Islands should place an order | RAILROAD TO REPUBLIC—Subseri- ber, Auburn, Cal. There is no railroad | running _to Republic, Stevens County, ‘Wash. The N. P. and . road runs to | within ninety miles of that place, then the | balance of the distance is by stage. | VERTICAL WRITING—J. H., Placer- ville, Cal. Vertical writing is a fad which has almost run its time. It differs from | back hand in this, that the lines are There is no’ particular ad- vantage over other styles of handwriting. | There are many. who are of the opinion | that it requires more effort to write in | that style than it does to write a clear, legible, running hand. A TENOR VOICE—H. F. L., Los An- geles, Cal. “An individual with a toler- | ably good tenor voice, who is anxious to | appear on the vaudeville stage,” should consult a teacher of vocal music, who will | inform him if he is qualified to *‘go and sing solos.” Those who are artists i that line are paid according to their value as | | arawing cards for the house in which they appear. Salaries range from $20 to $100 | THE MARINE HOSPITALS—W. H. M..‘\ Ash Fork, Ariz. The marine hospitals of | the United States are open to sailors of | the merchant marine for medical serv- | ice. Such hospitals are maintained by a tax of 40 cents per month levied on the seamen of all American vessels, payments by sailors from foreign ships when ad- mitted on_the order of the Consuls or captains (31 per day) and deficiency ap- propriation by the Federal Government. | A DELINQUENT POLICEMAN—W.B., City. If a member of the San Francisco police force owes a bill for groceries and | refuses to pay it, the party to whom he is ifdebted can commence an action against him in the Justice Court for the amount due, if under or he can make a complaint to the Board of Police Commissioners. There is a rule of the board that officers must pay their bills, and if they do not they have to appeat and show cause why they do not. LONG DISTANCE RIDING—Larkin street, City. Four men started in the long distance broncho race in San Francisco in 1880. It commenced May 15, and was for ninety hours’ riding, fifieen hours per day, at the Bay District track. The en- trie5 were Reves, Anderson, Derrick and Two_dropped before ridng 700 Peralto, was the toughest rider?” is meant which displayed the most endurance. then the answer is, Anderson. This department does not know the present whereabouts of ‘Anderson, the winner of first money. FARMERS' INSURANCE COMPA- NIES—F. B., Santa Rosa, Cal. By the law of April, 1897, a County Farmers' Mu- tual Insurance -Company can transact business only in the county in which it is organized, consequently = the Sonoma County Farmers’ utual Fire Insurance Company of Santa Rosa transacts busi- ness only in Sonoma County. The com- panies of that character in this State at t!is time are the Humboldt County Fire, 1 rndale; Mutual Fire Associate, Paso kohws; Orange County Farmers’ Mutu- al Fire, Santa Ana; San Diego County Fire Association, San Diego: Sonoma County Farmers' Mutual Fire, Santa Rosa; and Ventura County Mutual Fire, San Buenaventura. QUO VADIS—H. T. L., Nevada City, Cal. “Quo Vadis, a Narrative of the Time of Nero,” was written in 189 by :—lenhrykESlelnklewlcl, and it was published n the English language by a Boston firm in January, 1897 glenklewicn was born in Lithuania, Poland. In 1876 he went with a company, inciuding Helena Modjeska, to the southe part of the State of Califor- nia to an ideal Polish colony, but upon the failure of that scheme xe re- turned to his native place and there wrote the works which brought him prominently before the public. Vhile in the United !sct:tsl th; wmtet le(t}tlers on American top- % e wrote the narr: nam his native country. e b of| . | fell | the plan wa | doors, | prior_to igniting them she | tice of how PROVING THE CASE AGAINST HENRY BEACON Accused Incendiary in a Tight Place. MARGARET SHIELDS’ STORY TELLS HOW SHE ASSISTED TO FIRE A DWELLING. Carried Out All Furniture, Even to the Mantelpiece, Removed the Folding Doors and Ap- plied the Match. It Henry Beacom succeeds in clearing himself of the charge of arson against him he will have to put up a strug that will break a few cogs from 1! wheels of justice. Yesterd morning his re the night hopelessly _en- case went to trial, and b he was apparently tagled in the meshes of evidence. Mrs Margaret Shields, accused jointly w Beacom on a charge of having fired the residence of John T. and Julia Shields at 201 Virginia avenue on the night of Sep- tember 25, 1898, and who subsequen pleaded guilty, was the strongest wit- ness against Beacom, but there were others. Mrs. Shields took the stand and imme- diately launched into the of the burning of the Shields She said that although she pleaded guilty to the charge against her she did not fire to the house, she simply offered B com all the furniture and $100 in coin if he would apply the torch. She wanted to burn the house to get the . mount of an insurance policy she held upon it. When s finally perfected the wit- ness and Beacom carried all the furni- ture out, but when it came to the mantel- plece it was too heavy and Mrs. Beacom assisted. Then they took out the folding- ripped up the tloor, poured the contents of three large coal oil cans around the house and Beacom applied the atch, “But he made a bad job of it, aid Mrs. Shields, referring to the efforts of Beacom to burn the house, “and the fire boys came and put out the fire before it was fairly started.” Mrs. Shields rounded out her story re- garding the =etting fire to the building, and concluded it by ving that she had been playing the rac nd was a little short and needed money. When asked by Beacom’s counsel whether she expected to' be leniently dealt with for testifying against Beacom, she said, “The police simply told me to tell the truth, and sure I expect to get off altogether.” It is needless to say that she will doubtless be disappointed. When Mrs. Shields left the stand the impression that she had herself and through her testimony had assured her release, Lillian D. Mullen, Shields, took the ) all the stateménts made by the first witness. In addition she said that when Beacom had all ar rangements made to set fire to the dwel ing and was adjusting his saturated ra ame along, and Beacom handed her a lighted match and ordered her to set fire to the build- ing. She refused and ran away, and Beacom did the ‘‘job” himself. The case goes on to-da. SAN MATEO COUNTY TROUT. Fishes Are Being Illegally Caught in San Mateo Creck and Sold * to Belmonters. The Supervisors of San Mateo County dispensed with the services of a game warden last year, and as a result game and fish are now being killed out of sea- son by poachers. Last Sunday a poacher happened into Waltermeyer's saloon at Belmont and ped- dled out to lovers of trout between two and three hundred pounds weight of " | steelhead, which were caught in San Ma- teo Creek, nedr the Crystal Spring dam, by means of nets, which were dragged through the deep pools. The Constable of Belmont did not take any particular no- the law was being trans- gressed, and as a consequence the poach- er succéeded in making a good sale of his catch. The same man, it is said, has been netting quails in the vicintty of Belmont for several months. — e In the Divorce Court. Josephine - Woojley was granted a di- vorce yesterday from Horace ... Woolley on the ground of-extreme cruelty. Ella B. Nicholas has been granted a divorce from William Nicholas on the ground of willful desertion. A decree of divorce on the ground of desertion has also been grante¢ Arthur R. HugHes from Mary E Tughes. Suits for divorce have been file by Lovise M. Beckworth against A. E. HBeckworth on the ground of failure to provide; Gertrude. Lippert against Wil- h:\m Lippert on the ground of crueity; Jacob Hipps against Annie Hipps on the ground of infidelity, and Katherine Trev- athan against Charles E. Trevathan on the ground. of failure to provide. 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