The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 5, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, .WEDNESDAY, -APRIL 5, 1899, Call ..APRIL: s,-1809 DNESDAY.....cic.0 - JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. S il eS sy Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. OFFICE ......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coples, & cents. Terms by Mall, Inchuding Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 6 months. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 8 months. * DAILY CALL--By Single Month. 65¢ SUNDAY CALL One Year.. 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, One Year. All postmasters are authorized tp receive subscriptions. Bample coples will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE....... S aveers.-...908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room 188, World Bullding DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE......... Wellington Hotel C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE . ........ccooivninnnn Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS jAdvertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. Hayes street, open until ©:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open unt!l 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 251§ Misslon street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 cclock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. cormer Twenty-second anq Kentucky streets. open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. heater—Vaudeville every afternoon ng fa—Corner Mas Opera Hi and Ellis streets, Specialties. er Recitals, Wednesday afternoon, THE RAILROAD OPPORTUNITY. ew published in- The Call and in other 1day iast C. P. Huntington was re- ¥ onsibility for the violation, by the indorsement of the candidacy of Dan- 2s for the Federal Scgatorship, of.a pledge | - last Senatorial campaign in the name additional observations printed lly confirm the first report. It en better for the State'and more satis- to the Republican party if this qualified re- ning any T on had come earlier. act so well attested and so notorious as to yme settled and accepted that the reiterated all interference in party conventions sses and in elections by or on behalf of the i ed was made in its name. It | t the first announcement of the can- rns proceeded from William F. 1 the entire deadlock, in the teeth of press, Dan Burns was backed by t daily it was charged and te raiiroad was determined that its d succeed or that no Senator should be olely for these reasons, and because the e Republican legislators kept the faith, r constituencies and guarded the in- t the seat long occupied by remains vacant. nt and has been boldly published and ved that these treacherous and corrupt s were the resnlt of a conspiracy, which ly been checked, to disintegrate the local yrganization and in 1900 to turn the State v. That the Examiner was in- the conspiracy was proved by its tortuous yus course. It has never dared openly rwardly to deny that it secretly favored T Dan Burns, and, if it had done so, its al would have been refuted by its own columns. In the public mind the responsibility for this in- fisk ble attempt to govern or de- arty of California is now fas- , which, under the testimony and canva is fortunat olic over to volved i sidious and the Reg nds to-day, has been convicted, by falsehoods t which it was impossible to guard, of having iced the public welfare to its inordinate greed Mr. Huntington’s published inter- of tacit acquiescence in the situa- nce views, aiter mont} tion, is a practical acknowledgment that the action of Mr, Herrin, who is himself a Democrat, was at least 3 railroad authorities, and, to some , implicates them in deliberate treason to a party | owe all the y have had and to_which they. e attached. Even though Mr. Hunting- al disclaimer had been fuller and more P would still have been ineffective unless formulated and ratified by his associates and followed by the definite and unquestionable withdrawal of the umed censorship over parties, intrigues, ahd from a virtual dic- ver the various departments of municipal e government. 1ch a possibility exists, it would be of great ad- the threshold of the epoch of commercial and financial prosperity now distinctly before us for all controversies between the railroad and the public to be settled in a manly and in an honorable way. The Call has several times made this suggestion. It is within the power of Mr. Huntington and his asso- ciates, promptly to bring about this desirable result. I there be any individual and concentrated responsi- bility for the conditiéns lately existing it should be clearly and openly placed where it belongs, and meas- ures taken not only to prevent a repetition of the dam- aging incidents of the past few months, but to gon- vince the people that their repetition is impossible, and that the railroad actually means to attend to its | own business, to rely upon the law administered in the usual way for the protection of its rights and its in- terests, and to work in harmony with the public for the common good. This revised attitude, if genuine, would gratify solid and reputable citizens, who are without prejudice and whose ears are closed to the outcries of demagogues and cranks, and nothing less would meet the demand of the Republican party. The Call, as it has fully proved, has no desire to perpetuate hostilities of any kind, but, without dog- matism and yet with firmness, insists that, neither in the municipal contest shortly to be initiated nor in the national campaign of next year, shall it be possible with even superficial plausibility to connect the Re- publican party with the railroad, which, in the Sena- torial contest. it resisted and vanquished. Mr. Hun- tington has frequently boasted of his Republicanism since the formation of the party in 1856, and of his | contributions to its success in years when there was no pending accusation of railroad corruption. He has | now an opportunity to show the strength of his fealty to its principles by hardening mere pretensions into recognized facts. | ' and their predecessors pport tk railroad from its a politic: SPECULATION IN TRUSTS. VERY period of natural prosperity is accom- | E panied by a speculation fever. Speculation pre- cedes all panics. Prosperity, following exten- sion of trade, increase of consumption, enlargement of | wages, puts profit and ready money into the hands of; great numbers of people unaccustomed to a great sur- | plus of cash. A large percentage of them desire to | use their quickly and newly acquired means so as to | get a large spetulative increase in it, and make them | s rich as anybody. These people are the 'reckless buyers of trust stocks. Their avarice is inflamed by what they read of the profits of such property. | They think every trust is like every other trust, and | each is like the pioneer, the Standard Oil Company, and that everybody can become a Rockefeller. We have had these speculative crazes in California, running to mining stocks. When the Comstock deal was on it is known that men had books of stock cer- tificates firimcd on mines that existed only in the | name and vignette, and these when put on the‘mar-‘ ket were bought as eagerly as trust stock is taken now. The process was like fishing on the New- foundland banks, where some clams are thrown into | the water and the hooks are put down with bits of | white cotton cloth tied to them, to be eagerly taken | by the fish in their scramble for the real bait. It is| but little satisfaction to be able to say that a vast ma- “ jority of these formidable trusts whose stock is now | being gobbled will prove worthless, and that the dan- ger in their existence, now seen by social phil- osophers, is a myth, for their failure will take from | their stockholders the investment of their profitsl gained in legitimate trade, and a panic will follow | overspeculation in this stock as it-has always followed overspeculation in anything. If trasts did not offer such ready facility for specu- lation it would seek some other means of gratifying the desire of men to become suddeply rich, and as the bursting of the trust bubble will disillusion the people and take its terrors away from the trust spec~ ter, perhaps it is well that speculation has selected that | field. One thing is sure, that if no one bought trust stock none would be in existence, and it is also true that if the prosperity of the country did not distribute the | money into fresh hands there would be none to use in that way. It should be remembered that the or- ganization of trusts was not a feature of the years im- mediately ensuing uporr the panic of 1893. Money | went out of circulation when confidence disappeared, | and of the comparatively few trusts theretofore in ex- istence as large a percentage as of other business or- ganizations went into bankruptcy. Cordage, match and biscuit trusts, and many others, were victims of | panic, proving that this form of corporation bears no charmed life and is subject to the same vicissitudes as the ordinary partnership or other form of business. It is well, then, for prudent men to look upon the | present activity in forming trusts as the reflection of the speculative tendency that always goes hand in| hand with good times, and to do what may be to make | it less rampant, for as its excesses rise the time of | panic and trouble is brought nearer. Speculation seems inseparable Whether it seek for the object of its expected gain George Law’s Mississippi scheme, William Paterson'’s | Scotch Darien Company,the Morismulticaulus, Dutch bulbs, Hooley’s companies, Barney Barnato's kaffirs, railway stocks or trust certificates, it is all the same. It is the steam pressing in the boilet of business and sure to burst it soon or late, unless the safety valve is kept in working order. It should not be forgotten that speculation in this country is more subject to ; vicissitudes now than ever. We have assumed a po- | sition which puts both legitimate and speculative | business more than ever at the mercy of our inter- national affairs, and a single perturbation therein will profoundly affect both. We need more than ever sound ideas and practices in business, a sound finan- cial system and sound currency, for we are more ex- posed-to emergencies over which we have no control. Therefore let him that standeth take heed lest he fall. The one who is down already can have no change in his affairs except to get up. ! The country needs legislation to protect its credit, its currency, its standard of value, now more than it | was needed in the late panic. It was down then and | could only rise, and getting up was for the better. Being now on its feet, it should avert as long as pos- sible another fall, and minimize its consequences when it comes. QJ temporaries in discussing the Senatorial dead- | locks, a strong sentiment has béen formed in | that section in favor of Senator Hoar's proposal for | the election of Senators hereaiter by a plurality in- | stead of a majority vote. The reiorm is one that can be readily accomplished, and that fact has much to do in determining public opinion in its favor, - | Section 4 of article I of the constitution of the United States provides: “The times, places and man- ner of holding elections for Senators and Represent tives shall be prescribed in each State by the Legi lature thereof, but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing Senators.” The law which now regulates the election of Sen- tors was enacted by Congress in 1866. It provides that balloting for Senators shall begin on the second Tuesday after the organization of the Legislature and shall continue daily until seme capdidate receives a majority of all votes cast. Since it is thus an act of | Congress which makes a majority vote necessary for the choice of a Senator, it appears to be indisputable that Congress may, if it seefit, by an amendment of the law poyide for election by a bare plurality. | An argument much relied upon by the advocates of | the reform is that plurality- elections are well known | to our political mechanism. Thus as the Philadel- phia Inquirer says: “The plurality rules in every State and in all national elections, and it is only in elections for Senator that an absolute majority is re- quired. In the last sixty vears only three Presidents have had an absolute majority .of all the popular votes during times of peace. There are few Congressmen who had an absolute majority at the elections last fall. Why should Senators be compelled to have a major: ity if a President and Housé can be elected by a plurality?” While these arguments are valid so far as they go, they do not affect the deeper evil of the problem to be solved. Election by a plurality vote would put an end to deadlocks, but would not prevent the graver scan- dals of bribery and corruption of which the deadlock is but a symptom. Such a methad of election would be, in fact, a distinct gain to the vicious elements in our political system. It would be easier for the bosses to obtain a plurality than a majority in a Leg- islature, and thus the proposed reform would have no other effect than that of depriving honesty of one of its safeguards against dishonesty. : The subject is one deserving more than casual at- tention. The force with which the proposed amend- | ment is being urged in the East leads to the conclu- sion that a strong effort will be made to procure its from business. | | ELECTION BY PLURALITIES. | UDGING from the tone of our Eastern con- | effect its removal. | limited to commencing actions for condemnation. enactment at the next’ session of Congress. It may bf’ regarded, therefore, as a measure of practical poli- tics, and all who desire the accomplishment of a true rc':form by providing for the election of Senators by direct vote of the people should prepare to oppose the plurality scheme in whatever form it is presented. * HONOR THE PATRIOT DE@D. T Arlington Cemetery to-morrow the bodies of many American soldiers who fell in the Cuban campaign will be buried with simple but solemn ceremony, and the President by proclamation has given orders that during the afternoon of that day the national flag shall be displayed at half-mast on all public buildings, forts, camps and national vessels. The sentiment which prompted the proclamation is felt by all loyal hearts throughout the Union. The ob- servance of the day should therefore be common to all. The expression of honor to the memory of the patriot dead should not be left to the Government alone. The people should take part in it. Every | home or office or factory having a flag should display | it at half-mast, and evidences of public sympthy with the ceremony at Arlington should be everywhere visible. In the course of his proclamation the President clearly sets forth the reason why there should be a special commemoration of the day. “It is fitting,” he said, “that in behalf of the nation tributes of honor be paid to the memories of the noble men who lost their lives in their country’s service during the late war with Spain. It is the more fitting, inasmuch as in con- sonance with the spirit of our free institutions and in obedience to the most exalted promptings of patriot- ism, those who were sent to other shores to do bat- tle for their country’s honor under their country’s flag went freely from every quarter of our beloved land. Each soldier, each sailor, parting from home ties and putting behind him private interests in the presence of the stern emergency of unsought war with an alien foe, was an individual type of devotion of the citizen to the state which makes our nation strong in unity and in action.” & It is unnecessary to add anything to those words. From the homes of California as well as from those of her sister States young men went forth to foreign lands to give their lives if need be at the call of the nation. Distant as is Arlington Cemetery from us, every word uttered there in the burial service to-mor- row will find a response in Californian homes. It is but right, therefore, that we should be among the | most earnest in manifesting honor to the patriot dead. Let every national flag in the city be floated at hali- mast to-morrow. This is a city of banners. It is doubtful if in any other community does so large a proportion of the people possess a national flag. The ardor of our people at the outbreak of the war with Spain led almost every one to purchase a flag, and for a time, when the spirit of battle was upon us, the city was as radiant with banners as if it were a season of festivals. All of these flags should be brought forth to-day. They were flung to the breeze in former times at the full height of the mast in honor of the brave as they marched or sailed to battle; let them now with an equal honor float at half-mast for the heroes who fell in the service. > THE LAW OF NUISANCE. HE decision of Judge Bahrs in the Geary-street turntable case clarifies a subject which has here- tofore been obscured by conflicting opinions. | The turntable at Lotta’s fountain has long been -a public nuisance and various efforts have been made to But it was built under a franchise granted by the Board of Supervisors and has been sustained in its position by authority of law. About a year ago, however, the Supervisors tackled it in earnest. They adopted a resolution declaring it to be a nuisance and directing the Superintendent of Streets to abate it forthwith. When the latter prepared to move on the turntable, in force, however, the Geary Street Company procured an injunction from the Su- perior Court and put a summary stop to further pro- ceedings. It is this injunction which Judge Bahrs now sustains, leaving the opponents of the turntable | high and dry upon the beach of litigation. But in declaring that the Board of Supervisors had no power to remove this turntable by force Judge Bahrs has enunciated a valuable and interesting prin- ciple of municipal law. He holds that where the de- struction of property is involved the police powers of the Supervisors with respect to public nuisances are In other words, the law is that nuisances are abatable summarily by decree of municipal authorities only when they are detrimental to the public health and no damage will be done to property by their sup- pression. If the law were otherwise the Board of Supervisors might declare the City Hall a nuisance and order it removed. Of course there would be differences of | opinion upon this point, for in some respects the City Hall is a nuisance, notably in giving asylum to a large number of persons whose only purpose in life is to deplete the accumulations of the taxpayers; but it would be an éxtraordinary state of affairs if the law empowered the Supervisors to order the City Hall torn down whenever it suited their caprice. Judge Bahrs points out clearly a way for securing the demolition of the Geary-street turntable. He says that any person interested may commence an action to condemn the contrivance, and upon the trial of the | action all the facts of the case may be brought out and a judicial decree entered. If this decree be against the turntable it may then be executed in the usual way. The whole power of the State will be behind it, and, if necessary, the militia can be called out to enforce it. These powers, as we understand it, may also be util- ized to demolish other nuisances than the one which makes the nights of an esteemed morning contempo- rary hidous. As it is reported that many of the captured Filipinos have shown themselves discontented when disarmed and turned loose instead of being imprisoned and fed, it is evident the canned beef story has not yet been translated into their language. Y There was a time when the worst style of boss dic- tation known to us was described as “raw,” but the talk Huntington and Hubbard are giving us just now sounds a good deal more like something which has been embalmed. S S If nothing else was done by the Legislature, a ma- jority of the Republicans in that body defeated the railroad conception of expansion. The railroad con- tracted to expand Burns, but that form of expansion collapsed. . Possibly the reason why Herrin does not reply to Huntington’s assertion that the Southern Pacific had nothing to do with the Senatorial contest. at Sacramen- to is because he has been struck dumb with amaze- ment. tality. renness in apple trees. grafting wax. and 25th of June. rots. weeks they gained 258 pounds. cents each. An’_then she s: But somehow tillery for use on surplus fruits. into merchantable liquors. vented a brush baler. and sold. Since the development of artesian water for County, Mojave and Colorado deserts in California experiments have been made on the desert of Sahara in Africa and now 12,000,000 acres are under crop there, irrigated by artesian wells. For success in poultry raising use only the eggs of old hens for hatc}!- ing. Chicks from the eggs of mature fowls have the most value and vi- RANCH AND RURAL NOTES. jrrigation on the Kern The Horticultural Society of Minnesota recommends. this cure for bar- Remove a section of bark an inch wide clear around the tree, taking care not to injure the cambium or membrane, and fill the space with crabapple bark neatly fitted. The place is then bound with strips of old cotton cloth wound around neatly and tightly so as to cover the in- serted bark and about an inch above and below. tied tightly with stout twine, so that swaying in the wind will not break the contact of the new bark with the old. The bandage may be waxed with In about ten days the union will be complete. c mate it is recommended that this operation be performed between the 5th This treatment will also force bearing in young trees. Don’t wash eggs before taking to market. The use of water on an egg shell deprives it of a substance which excludes the air and the egg soon The cloth -must then be In that cli- Japan last year imported 182,484 pounds of butter, of which California furnished 75,000 pounds, at an average price of 35 cents per pound. The hermetically sealed butter in small packages sells there readily, but becomes rancid soon after opening, so that 8 ounce packages are preferred. Each 4000 pounds of milk contains 22 pounds of nitrogen, 11 pounds of potash and 9 pounds of phosphoric acid. This is nearly all in the skimmilk, and if that is fed on the farm to pigs and chickens nearly all these fertile elements are returned to the soil. Nitrogen, potash and phosphoric acid are the plant food of the land and should not be wasted. The American Cultivator reports the following results of chicken feed- ing: A lot of 133 chickens, weighing an average of four pounds and five ounces, or a total of 575 pounds, was selected for feeding. The first three Then they began moulting and in the next two weeks ghined only 25 pounds, but the weighing 916 pounds, or 6 pounds and 14 ounces each. they ate 1738 pounds of grain and 2589 pounds of skim milk, or nearly 12 pounds and 1 ounce of grain and 19% pounds of skim milk each. condition when the feeding began they were worth 6 cents a pound, when fattened they were worth 10 cents a pound, thus they gained in value The food cost 15% cents each. MY MA, SHE KNOWS. My Pa, he scolds me jes' becuz He says I'm gittin’ “tough”; He says my face is never clean, My hands is always rough; I'm not behavin’ like I should, An’ goin’ wrong, I s'pose, But Ma, she takes an' pats my hand An’ smiles becuz she knows! xth week they gained 58 pounds, In the six weeks In their My_Pa hain’t got no use for boys, He wants ‘em alwa; I wonder if he’s clean forgot The boy he must 'a’ been; Fer Ma, she says they're all alike 'Bout face an’ hands an’ clothes, An’ says°'I'll learn to be a man; An’' Ma, I guess, she knows! vs men; My Pa, he says I ain’t no good At doin’ anything; I'd ruther fool away the time An’' whistle, play an’ sing; But Ma, she smiles an’ says I'm young, An' then she up an’ goes An’ kisses me an' shows me how; For Ma, you bet, she knows! My Pa, he says I'll never be A business man like him, Becuz 1 hain’t got any ‘“‘drive” An’ ‘“‘get up,” “pluck’” and ‘‘vim"; But Ma, she says so solemnlike, A man's a boy that grows, An’ boys must have their playin’ spell; An' Ma’s a trump an’ knows! ¥ My Pa, he shakes his head an’ sighs An' says he doesn't see ‘Where I get all the careless ways That seem jes' born in me; An’ Ma, she laughs, an’ laughs, an’ laughs 11 Pa's face crimson grows, vs, ‘“'Tis very queer’’; , Ma, she knows. My Ma, she knows most everything 'Bout boys an’ what they like; She’s never scoldin’ "bout the muss I make with kites an’ bike; She says she wants me to be good An’ conquer all my foes, ‘An’ you jes' bet I'm going to be, 4 'Cuz my sweet Ma, she knows! —Birch Arno! STATE NOTES. C. M. Harrison of Biggs has planted ten acres of hemp on his Butte Creek ranch. Thé land is slickens over adobe, and the experiment of grow- ing hemp in it will be watched with interest by the ranchers whose river lands have been coated with slickens by hydraulic mining. The orchardists of Haywards are considering the advisability of a dis- Prunes, peaches and other fruits are made In Europe peels and pits of fruit are used in the still, and nothing grown in an orchard is wasted. This State is producing a large crop of figs, of which much is not put to profitable use. is a highly prized liquor, and if made here would find a ready market. ‘When pump irrigation was found necessary to save orchards ‘last year the fuel question became important and the prunings were used. loose state they were expensive to handle and T. G. Rogers of Winters in- It is a large, strong sawhorse, to which a strong lever is bolted, with four strong tines bent in a semi-circle. - horse is filled with the brush, the lever is pulled down and fastened with a ratchet, compressing the brush into a small bale, ‘which is bound with wire and is as convenient to handle as a stick of wood. The use of barnyard manure on adobe soil proved that it will subdue the stubbornness of adobe and break it up. The great valley of California from Mount Shasta to the Tehachapi never looked more promising than now. all feeling the stimulus of the March rain. : ‘While ships were sailing to the bird islands for guano as a fertilizer there was accumulating a deposit of the greatest value California. The animals tramped it solid and each old corral is now a mine of the best fertilizer, ten feet deep. The manure is ground up, sacked It is free from weed seeds and is of great value. , in Detroit Journal. Fig brandy In their The saw- in San Diego County has Grain, orchards and vineyards are in the sheep corrals of THE TELEPHONE MONOPOLY MY NOW BE BACKEN Promises of Mutual Company. ALL MODERN APPLIANCES CONTRACTS FOR CONSTRUCTION HAVE BEEN LET. President Crittenden Outlines His General Plans to the Judiciary Committee of the Board of Supervisors. If the assurances given the Judiclary Committee of the Board of Supervisors yesterday afternoon are carried into effect this city, will have by the end of the pres- ent year a competing telephone company as fully and peffectly equipped as money and skill can make it. .The matter came up under the consid- eration by the committee of the petition of the People's Mutual Telephone Com- pany for the revocation of the order oa the last Board of Supervisors, disqualify- ing a $10,000 bond given three years ago by the company in compliance with the terms of its franchise. James L. Critten. den, president of the company, appeared for the petitioners. He declared that his company had entered into contracts for the expenditure of $286,000 for the build- ing and perfecting of a modern telephone system having underground conduits in all of the downfown districts for the ex- tension of its wires. Of this amount Mr. Crittenden said the sum of $110,000 was to be paid for a switchboard of the latest and most im- proved pattern and exactly on the same plans as the one now in use in St. Louis, He further said that his company had al- ready entered into contracts to furnish 1700 business firms and private residences with telephones, and that he expected the number of contracts so made to aggre. gate at least 5000 by the Ist of July, the date set for the beginnifg of work on the system of underground ‘conduits. All Have your flags ready to float at half-mast in hnr;or of the heroic dead to-morrow. The observance of the day should be popular as well as national. of ‘the telephones put In for private or public use, he said, will be long-distance instruments capable ©of trans; sound a distance of 1000 miles. i tfns -~ Mr. Crittenden explained to the com- mittee that a franchise had been granted ' the People’s Mutual Telephone Com v about three years ago, and that the ?:S])_ pany, after Comgl,\'ing with all of the re- quirements of the grant, had begun the work of laying underground conduits, This work was stopped by injunction and since that time the matter has been fought_out in the courts, the Supreme Court finally deciding the controversy in favor of the Mutual Company. The com- pany’s bonds are now being prepared for sale, contracts have been let ang if pres- s‘qhegpectlatlotn? ag]e fulfilled thfi company vi] ave its telephones ready for us the 1st of January, 190, - e The matter of the $10,000 bond will be referred to the City and County Attorney for consideration before it will be acted on by the committee. B To-day the Street Committee of the Board of Supervisors will hold a special meeting for the purpose of giving a hear- ing to the Merchants’ Association in the matter of extending the time for grant- Ing the contract for the electric lights used by the city. This has to do particu larly with the application of the Mutual Flectric L(fiht Company for permission to érect poles-in certaln distriets of the city, i1 he meeting promises to be an interest. ng one. AROUND THE CORRIDORS J. Mullaney, a stock-raiser of Nevada, is located at the Russ. S. Pinschower, a Cloverdale merchant, is at the Grand, accompanied by his wife, Joseph Steinhart and wife of Stockton | have engaged rooms at the California for a short stay. A. B. Hammond, a large mine-owner and raflroad contractor of Missolua, Mont., is a guest at the Palace. W. H. Clary Jr., a mining man of Stock- ton, and W. R. Caruthers, a Santa Rosa merchant, are late arrivals at the Lick. Colonel J. A. Hardin of Santa Rosa, who owns Jarge cattle interests in . Ne- vada and Oregon, is staying at the Russ. Charles H. Dodd, ex-president of the Chamber of Commetee and a prominent merchant of Portland, Or., Is registered at the Occidental. W. Lionel Robert, a member of the British colony established at Penryn, ynear Auburn, has returned from a trip to Riverside and is at the Occidental. J. D. Biddle, a banker of Hanford; I. Horton, a Livermore hotel-keeper, and H. T. Thorpe, a business man of Sacra- mento, are among the arrivals at the Grand. 5 H. C. Bush, the general agent of the freight department of thé Santa Fe Rail- road, will leave to-day for Honolulu on a visit of pleasure. He will be absent about three weeks. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, April 4—H. M. Summer- field and wife of San Francisco are at the Bartholdi. Mrs. C. Mever of San Fran- cisco is at the Plaza. Frank M. Leland and F. W. Ames of San Francisco are at the Imperial. Jessie McCormick of San Francisco is at the Gilsey. Raphael Weill of San Francisco and Mrs. J. Clunie of San Francisco are at the Holland. Gor- don Blanding and F. G. Drouen of San Francisco are at the Fifth avenue. ULTIMATUM OF THE TEACHERS 1§ ACCEPTED Merchants Notify the Auditor. CONFERENCE OF ATTORNEYS NO MORE INJUNCTIONS WILL BE SERVED. Thirty-Five Thousand Dollars Now Available to Pay Eighty-Six Thousand Dollars’ Worth of Claims. Auditor Wells was notifled yesterday that the ultimatum issued by the teach- ers at their meeting held at the Giris’ High School Monday afternoon would be accepted by the merchants and its terms complied h. This means that the.mer- chants will forego their intention to en- Jjoin the salaries of the teachers for the balance of the present fiscal year, and that they will accept the $35,000 availa- ble to meet the demands of the School Department fund prior to the first of January. It also means that the teach- ers on their part agree to dismiss all pending litigation over the distribution of the $35,000, and that they will aban- don all claim to it, so that the merchants may divide the entire amount among themselves as they see fit. A vital part of this understanding is that while the teachers relinquish all claim to the only money now available for the payment of their back salaries, they do not by so doing inyalidate their claims against the city. These claims will be pressed in some manner not yet determined. This will be a subject for after consideration. The claims of the merchants against the city aggregate something more than $86,000. Now that the teachers have stepped out of the legal arena there is now available about 000 which can be applied to the liquidation of thesg claims. 'c whom and in what manner this money is to be distributed is the prob- lem that is now confronting the Auditor and the attorneys for the merchants. Yesterday Attorney Frank Powers, rep- resenting the merchant creditors, called on Auditor Wells and informed him of the intention of the merchants to com- ply with the decision of the teachers. He then suggestéd that it was the desire of his clients to secure possession of the available $35,000 as soon as possible. The Auditor expressed a willingness to au- thorize the payment of the money, and said he would do so at once if the attor- ney would point out how it could be done legally and in a manner so that the rights of the Auditor and the city would be protected. This was too knotty a problem to be solved at once, and after a lengthy discussion the Auditor-referred the matter to his attorney with instruc- | tions to confer with Mr, Powers as to the best method on which to proceed. During the conference in the Auditor's office Attorney Powers suggested that the entire sum be paid to some one per- son to be designated by the merchant creditors, that person to distribute ‘the amount pro rata according to the amount due each of the various creditors. He also suggested that enough of the out- standing claims be selected to make up the amount of $35,000, and that the Aud- itor pay these with the understanding that the money so paid should be rib- uted among all of the creditors. Neither of these propositions were acceptable to the Auditor and they were therefore rejected as impracticable. It will prob- ably be several days before the manner of payment will be decided upon. A Compromise Effected. The damage suit of Mrs. Ethel D. Saw- kins against the Market-sireet Railway Company came to a sudden ending yes- terday. The case was on trial before Judge Daingerfield and the plaintiff had not vet rested her case when her counsel arose and asked that the case be dis- missed, as a compromise had been ef- fected. The exact amount paid Mrs. Sawkins was not stated in court, but It is understood that the Market-street Company paid $300 and costs. —_————— Pierce Gets the Land. A jury in the United States Circuit Court yesterday rendered a verdict for the plaintiff in the case of Henry Pierce against Richard J. Mulliken. 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