The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 7, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL., FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1899 v chsbov s s APRIE SnaBon FRIDAY.. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. ——— S A s PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts. S. F Telephone Main 1568. EDITORIAL ROOMS.... .2IT to 231 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1574, DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 16 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coples, B cents. Terms by Mall, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one year. .§6.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 6 months........ 3.00 DAILY CALL (including Sundey Call), 3 months. 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Month. 650 | BUNDAY CALL One Year. & '::3 WEEKLY CALL, One Year. All postmasters are authorized to recelve subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE.. .908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.. Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE Wellington Hotel C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE ... .Marquette Boilding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Represcntative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Moptgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 941 Mission street, open untli 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ane Kentucky streets. open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. *“The Serenade. Opera House—"The Black Hussar.” ~Vaudeville. ~*The Charity Ball." li—*'Beautiful Golden Locks.” ‘Married, Not Mated.” —Tan Maclaren, Zoo and Free Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon ia—Corner Mason and Ellis streets, Specialties. Opera House—Sauer Recitals, Wednesday afternoon, po—The popular bay resort. Amusements every AUCTION SALES. & Co—This day, at 11 o'clock, furniture corner of Filmore and Union ‘streets. & Co—Tuesday, April 11, at at 638 Market street Easton, al estate, MONG the recent decisions which have come d is one by Supreme Court of the ;AX SHIRKERS @GAIN REBUFFED. to I fl Michigan holding that the tax-shirking e> press comg , which for upward of a year now have been evading their war taxes, must stamp bills 1 re issuing them. The c in which this of lading bi te to one of the Circuit Courts of Michigan Attorney General Maynard at the request of ber of shippers. The suit was brought against n Express Company, and the court was 1 to order that corporation to stamp its bills of issuing them, on upon the of revenue, the gress to impose stamp taxes, the juris- ate courts to issue writs of mandate, and of express companies under schedule A of ct to pay their taxes. In the rvations under the latter head Jus- subject the war revenue course of his ob: tice Long $ “By the act every express company is compelled to issue to every shipper or consignor a bill of lading ipment received for carriage, to which bill and duplicate thereof 1l be attached and celed a stamp of the value of 1 cent. The law, ® therefore, imposes upon the carrier the obligation to | is the r t. With this the shipper has nothing to He delivers the package to the company, pays or tenders the usual charges. This ends the shipper’s duty, and the law then compels the carrier tc 1e the receipt or bill of lading. This bill must mped and the stamp canceled. It is evident that | much the duty of the company to place the | on the receipt and cancel it as it is to issue duty is made more apparent by the fact that the act further provides that failure to issue | the receipt makes the carrier so failing amenable to a | Leavy penalty s the case succinctly, and in accordance‘ w the opinion the Michigan Supreme Court unanimousi dered the mandate to issue, thus put- fing on record in a practical Way its view of the law. The American Express Company, however, has ap- pealed to the United States Supreme Court and thus | the decision. In the meantime it is robbing the shippers of Michigan, as Wells, Fargo & Co. are robb the shippers of California, out of several | thousand dollars per month. | The interesting question in connection with this | matter, however, is, how are the shippers to get even on the express companies after the United States Su- preme Court sustains all the decisions rendered by the State and inferior Federal courts? At present the shippers are paying the war taxes of the express companies. Is there any way in which they can re- coup themselves later on? s v AR hung In all the talk and wrangle over the various Demo- cratic banquets it is worth while noting that during | the days when they controlled the country and fixed | the tariff the great mass of them had nothing to eat but crow; but now, thanks to Republican prosper- ity, they can have banquets to fight about. It is reported in New York that if Croker of Tam- many has his way the Democratic ticket in 1900 will be Nelson A. Miles and Augustus Van Wyck, but no report gives any ground for believing Croker will have his way. Good citizens will not suspect the Supervisors of | juggling with gas rate regulations merely to make a stock-jobbing deal, but all the same they will watch the next move of the board with a sharp-eyed in- terest. Of the making of new words there is no end. The New York Times recently called Senator Hoar the “Philfilipinist of Massachusetts” and did not even take the trouble to furnish a diagram. The St. Louis Police Court Judge who decided that under certain conditions a man has a right to whip his wife probably intended to promote matrimony by | encouraging the boys. Maguire has no longer any stomach for a political contest, but he can hold his own at a dinner party pretty well, and that is more than Bryan can do. The record of the Chilkat disaster furnishes another evidence that the tule life preserver should be put on the list with embalmed beef. e The question of the Philippine campaign which most people will find it hardest to answer is: “What has become of General Merritt?"” was rendered was an application for a writ of | , written by Justice Long, is an extcn—{ »prindglcd speculators, the enemies of remunerated | INQUIRY. | THE BEEF 1 O matter what may be the verdict of the com- N mission now inquiring into the beef ration fur- nished during the Spanish war, American in- | terests in meat products are going to suffer. This country is the largest producer and purveyot | of meat products in the world. Our corn and fodder | facilities are unlimited, and upon them depend our | beef and pork. The proper curing of these meats | with' salt, saltpeter and sugar is a comparatively slow !process, but it is wholesome. Pork products cured | by these agents, and smoked, have excellent keeping | | qualities and furnish a nourishing element in diet. | | It is highly probable that the sudden demand for | large quantities of meat in condition fit for army ra- | tions caused the use of novel chemicals and experi- ments in the hasty preparation of the meat for use in | military camps and in the tropics, and that the hurry orders were responsible for methods that have not | been in use in the preparation of meat for the usual | market. But this fact will not be apt to get due | weight in the mind of the foreign consumer and of our i competitors. No doubt it was a mistake to attempt | the use of a beef ration in the tropics. Experience | demonstrates that a salt pork ration is the best there. | We have always had a large outlet for salted pork | among the laboring population of the West Indies. The negro laborers there use it with molasses as a { condiment, and it seems to be the best meat ration | for that climate. As there is no prospect that we will | extricate ourselves from the risk and cost of military | occupation in the tropics for several years, if at all, it | will be well to extract some practical policy out of the | beef scandal. The military nations of Europe have made the army | ‘ration the subject of the best scientific study. The German army in the French war was furnished with a ration that carried the highest amount of nutrition in the smallest possible bulk. The German pea sausage, scientifically prepared, with nitrogen and all the elements of a wholesome diet, was probably the best constituent of a ration ever furnished to a sol- dier. Its preparation was easy, and it taxed digestion the least while sustaining the soldier in the supreme | exertion of battle better than anything theretofore tried. | There is a pea grown in Japan that upon analysis : and experiment shows the highest food qualities found in the leguminous plants. This pea was used | in preparation of the German ration. “ MWhen Mr. J. Sterling Morton was Secretary of [ | Agriculture he introduced this Japanese pea into this | country, and it is doubtless domesticated and being grown in many places now. The military authorities should hunt it up and study the preparation of a ra- tion of which it is the base in combination with pork | product. It is easier of transportation than the raw bean and is more easily prepared and more serviceable pn the march or during battle. This pea is especially a heavy producer in California, and if introduced into | the army ration would be a valuable addition to our | field crops. Our fruit-growers have already asked | the Government to introduce some form of fruit ra- :tion, in order to increase the market for our fruits, and there is equal propriety in asking that such a field | | crop be likewise favored. It seems the height of folly to build refrigerators | and make ice machines part of an army equipment to | keep fresh beef in a poor condition for use in a hot | climate when the military experience of every nation | runs counter to the fresh beef ration, or the attempt | to imitate it by canned roast beef. | We fought the Civil War on the old standard ration of hardtack and sow-belly, and that would have been infinitely better in the Spanish war than the em- balmed abominations and refrigerated carrion on which our soldiers were fed, at great cost and with disastrous results to the health of the troops. NATIONAL INTEGRITY. T xcite our pride and afford fresh evidence of the superiority of American citizens over Asiatics and additional reasons why they could never be brought politically together except in the relation that conquerors bear toward the subjugated. We bought the title of Spain to the Philippines and stand in the shoes of that effete monarchy while we assert our right of possession and our political sovereignty against the natives, who were fighting against Spain for independence when our Declaration was issued and our Revolutionary War was in progress. The glaring inconsistency of our present attitude in the Philippines was logically and powerfully ex- posed by Senator Hoar in his letter recently pub- lished in The Call. To citizens who really comprehend their own gov- ernment, and to lovers of constitutional freedom and independence’ everywhere, this bloody strife is fraught with fearful omens. Our young men, with educated intelligence behind their artillery, filled with the dar- ing courage of their composite race, handled with consummate skill and supplied with all the accessories that money can buy, like the ancient Romans are practically invincible against semi-barbarians, poorly equipped, half naked and half starved. Under more equal conditions they would achieve greater triumphs. But success is not always right, and in this instance it is more dangerous to the conquerors than to the conquered. The lust for dominion is a danger signal not only to ourselves but to the world. As Senator | Hoar has suggested, the positions in our Revolution- ary War are reversed, am{ while the Filipinos, now as then, are fighting for independence, we have receded to the attitude of Great Britain. Spain had never colonized the Philippine archipelago, and her claim of ownership was based upon an incomplete imperial | robbery. That was the title we bought under which | we now call the Filipinos “rebels” or “insurgents,” and wage against them a relentless war, in which their comparative loss is probably in the proportion of fifty to one. There will be an end to this condition without an opportunity to extract from it party capital. There are Democratic expansionists who are the worst of their class. There are hundreds of thousands of pa- triotic Republicans who are opposed to Asiatic ex- pansion, either in the form of annexation or coloni- zation. The people of the Pacific Coast are united in their determination to utilize their commercial and financial advantages, but it is an insult to their intel- ligence for Eastern expansionists to pretend that for this purpose they are bound to support territorial acquisition in Asia, and to fall into the trap set by the imperialists. , The sentiment against Asiatic expansion is rapidly growing and becoming solid and determined. If the question were left to the rank and file of the army and navy, who are face to face with the problem in the Philippine Islands and are manfuily upholding their national flag in that pestilential region, we are credibly informed that 98 per cent would favor an honorable withdrawal to our own continent as rap- idly as the temporary responsibilities, which we have brought upon ourselves, could be adjusted. The in- tense advocates of expansion include the worst and most dangerous elements in the United States—un- HE victories of our troops over the Filipinos ‘| therefore Rampolla has the game in his own hands. labor, ambitious and reckless seekers for military glory, toadies to Great Britain, pessimistic unbe- lievers in popular government—every class or faction to which the constitution is a chart of worn-out sen- timents and the republic an exploded fallacy, and whose righteousness is the pharisaical product of selfishness and greed. In 1859 the British blew Se- poys from their guns and scattered their remains in order to enlist religious fear in the suppression of mutiny. A few months ago Lord Kitchener dis- patched wounded Dervishes to arrest the fatal re- sults of their strategic courage. These acts were pos- sible under imperial government, but their imitation in the Philippines will not be sanctioned by the citi- zens of a republic who have not abandoned the con- stitutional liberty their ancestors wrung from Great Britain, and who have not yet surrendered their al- legiance to the memory of Washington. o ———— THE OLNEY MOVEMENT. BOSTON correspondent of the Milwaukee Journal announces that a movement is now under way in Massachusetts to make Richard Olney the Democratic candidate for President in 1900. It is stated somewhat curiously that he is likely to be found an available candidate because he is in favor of expansion but opposed to annexation, and, while a gold Democrat, has not made himself ob- noxious to the free silver men. There are reasons for believing strong foundations exist for this report. The Southern States constitute the strength of the Democratic party, and it is no- table that leading papers of that section have been | very active of late in making a campaign against Bryanism. We have several times directed attention to their utterances disclosing the dissatisfaction of Southern men with the present situation of their party | and the policy of its leaders. For a long time the Southern papers carefully ab- stained from naming a successor to the leadership. They were content to point out the folly of the Chi-| cago platform and the weakness of Bryan as a leader. The Richmond Times, for example, recently de- clared: “The Democratic party to-day is without character or standing in the nation. It has lost the confidence, if not the respect, of the great body of intelligent, thoughtful men of the country.” The Louisville Courier-Journal has taken an even bolder tone and has declared that the Chicago plat- form and its candidates must be abandoned. Refer- ring to the charge of “traitor” hurled by the Bryan- ites against all who would repudiate their leadership, | it says: “Is abuse a good answer to the facts of the case? Does it hurt anybody except the authors? Who cares for the objurgation of men with the blood of their party upon their hands?”’ Then it goes on to | speak of the Democrats of the plain people, “hud- | dled like sheep and ruthlessly sacrificed to the inca- pacity and the vanity of a set of politicians who have nothing to show for their tenure of power except obloquy and disaster.” This campaign of education having formed popu- lar sentiment, a further step was taken. The Memphis Commercial-Appeal a short time ago urged the people of the South to take up Olney as their candidate, and in his name seek a restoration of Democratic unity throughout the nation. It was the Memphis paper that first notified the country that Mr. Olney is favorable to expansion without im- perialism, and to the gold standard without being disrespectful to free silver. Since the Memphis utterance the availability of | Olney has been much discussed. The Massachusetts organ of mugwumpery, the Springfield Republican, says: “If the Democracy wants a candidate who will represent sound doctrine in finance, liberal views on the income tax, helpfulness in meeting the labor problem and a vigorous, old-fashioned Americanism unmixed with false notions concerning Oriental ex- pansion, it can find him in Mr. Olney. The country, too, would recognize in Mr. Olney a candidate with plenty of fixedness of purpose and resolution.” Such are the facts of the Olney movement as they | appear on the surface. It is possible, of course, that! the newspaper campaign against Bryan in the South may have been undertaken by the editors of their own motion, and that the Olney canvass has been dis- cussed solely because the Memphis Commercial- Appeal put him forward as an available candidate. Perhaps Boston and Massachusetts had nothing what- ever to do with the matter. Chicago, however, has recently disclosed that.the people of Boston have a habit of catching young herring and canning them | under the name of brook trout, and it is yossiblc} some astute men in the city have been canning Bos- ton politics of the Olney kind and putting it upon the | political market as Southern opinion. | The story that Cardinal Rampolla, Papal Secretary of State, is exerting every effort to conceal the dan- gerous condition of the Pope with the object of pre- venting the Powers from working in advance for the next conclave, is a very interesting contribution to current history, inasmuch as it shows that Europeans in matters of politics never arrange a programme be- forehand, but wait until the event happens before con- sidering what they will do next. No European power having an interest in the papacy would presume it seems to make a slate before the Pope is dead, and | The story is not only interesting, but is important— if true. —_— Immediately after pronouncing them husband and wife the priest who had wedded the high contracting parties congratulated thebride on having become a Fair Vanderbilt, and by thus heading off all the chappies who intended to use that impromptu in their com- pliments, he conferred a true blessing on the couple and carned a right to smile at the wedding breakiast. The Cuban Military Assembly has decidel to ac- cept the terms of the United States, together with the $3,000,000, and to disband the pa- triot army and go to work. The wisdom of the choice is commendable, but it remains to be seen how the patriots will act after they have spent the money and tired of work. The President’s proclamation setting apart April 6 as a day for commemorating the patriot heroes who fell in the war with Spain should be respected not by public officials only, but by all the people. Let every flag be at hali-mast on that day. Let every house- hold show its sympathy with the national feeling. i e While the rush of congratulations is going to Mr. Vanderbilt and his bride, it is timely to give some to the public on the fact that we are about to have a rest from the stories of the wedding presents and the trousseau. It is somewhat to be regretted that young Vander- bilt married before completing his college course, but his wife will probably be able to superintend his studies and finish his education for him. S For a time the volunteers serving in the Philippines desired to return home, but now one of them writes “The boys are no longer homesick. They feel they are doing something.” Atan ancestry. DAWSON WATER FRONT TENANTS MADE Holders of Leases Suffer Be- cause of Official Misman-= agement, BY SAM W. WALL. DAWSON, March 15 (via Seattle, April 6).—The fire on the water front on Thurs- day morning, which destroyed several more of the substantial structures built there, caused a loss that is estimated at $20,000, the principal sufferers being well- | known San Franciscans. Mrs. Adcock's | two-story building and the entire stock, | valued altogether at $12,000, were destroy- ed. Mrs. Adcock for twenty years kept a millinery store on Kearny street, near | Market. She and her husband barely escaped with their lives, being aroused from sleep in the upper story after the house was in flames. They came in last spring. The small store of Mrs. Frank Fancher was destroyed and only a portion of the stock saved. The loss is about $2000. | Frank Fancher was a commissipn mer- chant in San Francisco and later was a | clerk in one of the departments at the | City Hall. Mr. and Mrs. Fancher al‘rh’ed: in the fall of 1867, | This is the third disastrous fire on the water front within a period of three | weeks. Commissioner Ogilvie has now served formal notice on the tenants that | they will have to move, buildings and all, | immediately following the 1st of May. The | occupation of the water front has been the occasion of the same confusion and cry of corruption that have characterized | everything that has been done by warrant of the Government in this much-muddled | and altogether distressed country. The| Government last year leased the water | front to Alexander McDonald, with rights | to sublease it. The Government officials | were-changed and the present council,| court and commissioners have given the tenants notice that the lease was unlaw- | ful. The tenants some months ago re-| fused to pay their ground rent, and the | agents of ‘.\IcDonald (McDonald being now | in the States) did not crowd them in the | courts in the fear, it is said, that it might be shown they had no right to col lect, whereupon all those who had al- ready paid would sue for recovery. A‘ case finally got into court, however. and | was decided in McDonald’'s favor, Judge | Dugas holding that the tenant had no right to question the title of a landlord | afglrr having become a party to a lease. This has brought greater consternation | along the front than did the several fires | and tenants' are being levied upon ail| along the line, ejected and sold out where | they don't promptly pay arrears, for the | the houses are responsivle n| tenants of under the law .or the ground rent. nearly all cases the stores are not occ pied by the owners, or at any rate the holders of dlm-h xgmumll 1;aie(r“trr“g‘ ormer have paid their rent regulariy {hf‘nlleasfl hnldgx‘& but these have not paid | and many still refuse to pay the ground | rent, and much distress and embarrass- | ment are suffered b the storekeepers, | who, because business has been so bad | are not prepared to pay the rent a sec-| ond time. They are rus ll;flngrintw court on | various pretexts to seek relief. | ‘a;\rllrnn()s[plhe same confusion exists con-| cerning the town site property. Last summer it was_stated authoritatively that Harper, La Due and Fitzpatrick had | Teceived their patent for the town site | land, and Major Walsh, then Commis-| sloner, gave notice that he would support | the company with the mounted police in keeping squatters from the land. People | who wished to build a cabin in which to | live without first buying a lot were re-| quired_to go tb the hilltops, far dlslt\nt‘ from the river and town. Now it appears that the patent has not been issued, or, | at least, the agents of the company here do not know it if it has been, and are powerless to eject the squatter once he | is fairly located. This uncertainty, of course, frets the company and the would- be squatter as well, neither knowing his | rights and both fighting for advantage at 4 this formative period of the city. The displacement of the people along the water front will compel them, all business | people, to seek new locations on Second | avenue. Titles to vacant lots may come | into question and no end of litigation bc; the result. | Lawsuits in constantly increasing num- bers are growing out of the muddled con- dition of the mining records here. Claim have been recorded that do mot exist, claims are discovered to be overlapping each other, and claims are staked from one period to another under the constant- 1y being changed regulations and under grants allowed in Ottawa that conflict | With the rights of persons already secured under the regulations here. The confusion and uncertainty are so great that even | the Canadians are leaving the country in | complete discouragement and disgust, and | all cry alike for the establishment of a | government here where the laws may be | made by men familiar with the conditions | at_which they are directed. - | Senator Jere Lynch has just purchased | a bench claim on Adams Hill, on Bo-| nanza, near the mouth of El Dorado. the consideration being something like ,000. Mr. Lynéh will put a large force of men at work with steam thawers. The claim is_thought to be very rich. : The Northwest Trading Company's steamer Clara is advertised for sale to- day to satisfy creditors. This is another case of queer management in which San Franciscans are chiefly interested. The bandmaster Roncovieri brought the boat in, together with A. Haussler, managing | director of the company, last summer. | The boat met all sorts of trouble, chiefly | through mismanagement, and arriving | very late at the Yukon flats her barge | shall TO VACATE was abandoned with $40,000 worth of goods gned for this place and for this win- market. understand a number of San Fran-| o shareholders—Dr. Gross, Dr. Rich- George T. Knox, the notary; Legal let, leather merchant, and P. Kline—have a three-quarter interest in the freight that is on the barge. When the Clara | rived here Roncovieri took a boat and went on out, and Haussier, instead of sending the boat back for the barge, mortgaged her. Interested parties com- plained and Consul McCook took charge and the boat probably will be sold_to- V. A steam launch belonging to Fer- nand de Journel and George S. Wilkins, together with a number of typewriters, | were also abandoned by the Clara. The investigation into the official acts of ex-Gold Commissioner Fawcett has terminated without anything having been developed showing crookedness on the part of Fawcett. A reception was ten- dered to Fawcett on the eve of his de- parture for the outside, which was at-| tended by a great crowd of the best peo- | le of Dawson. Mr. Fawcett is now on | is way to Ottawa. Thomas Tritton, special deputy United States Marshal, left for Circle City last | Monday, carrying a warrant for the ar- | Test of Captain Danabe, commander of the Columbia Navigafion Company’s steamer Sovereign. Danabe is charged | with having sold everything movable on | the boat and converted the returns, to- | gether with other sums belonging to the | compan, to his own use, spending lhgl money “in riotous living. Danzbe is' charged also with conspiring with United States Commissioner Crane (who, be- | sides holding this office, is in charge of North American Transportation Com- pany’s post at Circle City) to divert and hamper the business of the Columbia Navigation Company. | 1 shall start to-morrow for Eagle City and make a _complete though necessarily rapid tour of the principal creeks in that and the Forty-mile district on the Amer- | ican side. Great interest is felt in the | diggings there, and if they should develop | any reasonably good pay there will be a | hegira down the river with the breaking of the ice. The reports that have reached | here through the winter from that direc- | tion have been of the vaguest and most conflicting nature. The mines are a long | distance back from the river, and those | who come out are informed only with re- | | gard to the immediate locality in which | they were working, some of these being | very encouraging and some of them | equally discouraging stories, and neither | can be entirely credited. I have found that the only way to get the truth is to | g0 after it. I have delayed the start un- | tll this late day in order that there may | be something definite to learn when I do | go—that is, that the work in the mines | be sufficiently advanced to deter- | mine what is in_the ground. The trip | will cover a run of some 400 miles over the | ice and consume about three weeks' time. DEATHS AT DAWSON. Klondikers Who Have Been Sum- moned to the Beyond. DAWSON, March 1—Robert Chicago, who conducted the Tivoll Theater while here, and the Mel- bourne, the largest and handsomest hotel in town, leaves to-day for the out- side and Paris, there to make arrange- ments for the reproduction of Dawson and the Klondike at the Paris Exposition. His plan is to represent the main street | of the town, with its saloons, dance halls | and all its main features literally, and with this to present a complete exposition of how mining is done in this country. He will also take Indians, dogs and all those things that are especlally characteristic | of the country, and make a spectacle on | the lines of Old Vienna, the Streets of Cairo and others that made the Midway | Plaisance world famous, | Following is a list of deaths recorded | here since my last report of them: January 2I—Hans Swelgrass, Sweden, | crushed by caving in of shaft at 59 below, | Bonanz; | January 30—John McPhall, Scotland, | | Beer of | seuryy February 3—Walter E. McDonald, Win- nipeg, consumption. ci(l;‘er‘bruar} 2—Libby White, Colorado, sui- February 2 L Swansea, | ‘Wales, suicide with revolver. | February 1—Winfield Scott Parker, Ken- tucky, cerebral hemorrhage. February 3—Willlam_Alexander, Ireland, suicide, on Dominion Creek. February f7—Jefferson Tolbert, Ken- tucy, hemorrhage of lungs. February 12—William Mitchemn, Nash ville, Tenn., pulmonatis. February 13—Henry L. Fisher (infant). February 12—Andrew 8. Kirby, United | States, pneumonia. February 7—John Hughes, New York. February 11—Daniel McGillverey, Nova | Scotia. | February 13—Frank Nantuck (Indian) scurvy; four other Indians. February 15—Edward Flat, N. W. M. P. | from N. W. T., scurvy. | February 17—Joe Nantuck (Indian), | murderer. | February 16—S. W. Banks, Australia, | heart disease. Frank and Joe Nantuck, the Indians | ‘whose names s.grvear in the list, were two | of the four who were convicted of the murder of the man Meecham last summer and who were sentenced to be hanged, but | were saved for the time being because the | day of the hanging developed into a legal holiday. They died of scurvy. INDECENT PHONOGRAPHS THE The raid on the indecent phonograph parlors in San Francisco, made through the efforts of The Call, is as admirable a piece of work in behalf of morality and a purer social atmosphere as was the suppression of gambling at the rac- ing park some weeks ago. Papers which, while advertising lotteries, make a big blow about gambling in China- town excite only the ridicule or con- tempt of the community, so long as such cesspools as the Ingleside track and the phonograph parlors are per- mitted to fester in the community with- out a protest. The Call has opened its batteries in the right direction, and it deserves commendation.—San - Jose Mercury. —_— e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. PORT!{ ORCHARD DOCK—A. B. N,, City. The drydock at Port Orchard, Wash., Is large enough to hold the Iowa. The dock is 600 feet long, 75 feet wide at the bottom, and will admit vessels of 30 feet draft. The Iowa is 360 feet long and 24 feet draft. JOSEPHUS—A Subscriber, City. Fla- vius Josephus, the celebrated historian of the Jews, was born in Jerusalem some time between the 13th of September A. D. 37 and March 16, A. D. 38. He died some time after A D. 100. His works may be obtained from booksellers or may be seen in the libraries. LIQUOR IN ALASKA—A. E. D, City, On the 11th of last January there was a law passed which fixes a high license for liquor traffic in the Territory of Alaska. The license is $1000 a year, and to enfnge in the business the individual applying for such a license must present the written consent of a majority of all the residents within two miles of the place where ' the applicant wants to establish his business. ____ ° CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW—W. C., City. Chauncey M. Depew is a native of Peeks- kill, N. Y. He Is of Huguenot and Puri- He graduated from Yale College in 1856, entered the Presidential campaign for Fremont in that vear; two vears later was admitted to the bar, and since 1830, when he worked for the elec- | tion of Lincoln, he has been more or less in politics. During that period he became | attorney for the New York and Harlem | Railroad and then secured other positions | in the railroads. | THE NICARAGUA CANAL—Constant Reader, City. If you will go to the Free | Public Library and consult the Congres sional Record of the session just closed you will find therein all that has been sald in connection with the Nicaragua Canal, | for and against. You will also find much | about it in the Annual Cyclopedia. EGGS IN LIQUID-T. F., City. The fol- lowing are given as recipes for preserv- | ing eggs in liquid. This department knows | nothing from experience of their value: | Lime, one bushel, slacked in water; common salt, two or three pounds; cream tartar, half a pound; water Sufficient to form a liquid that will float an egg. This will preserve eggs for two years, Put a dozen eggs in a willow basket, immerse for five seconds in boiling wa- ter containing five pounds of common brown sugar to a gallon of water, then immediately place the eggs on a tray to dry. The scalding process forms a thin coat of hard albumen next to the inner surface of the shell, closing the pores and excluding the air. The eggs when cooled are then packed small end down in an intimate mixture of one measure of good charcoal finely pulverized and two measures of dry bran. Eggs thus grepsrcd will be fresh six months after eing so packed. REV. ANNA HOWARD SHAW-B. F. B., San Jose, Cal. The Rev. Anna How- ard Shaw was born at Newcastle-on- Tyne, England, February 14, 1847, and yvas brought to America when four years of age. Her parents located in Massachu- setts, and then in Michigan. In 1873 Miss Shaw was granted a license as a local reacher; in 1875 she entered a college in ichigan, and then she entered the theo- logical department of the Boston Univer- ity and graduated with honors in 1878, During the last vear of her theological course she was the pastor of the Metho- dist Episcopal Churcn of Hingham, Mass. Her second pastorate was at East Dennis, on Cape Cod. She made application to the New England Methodist Episcopal Conference for ordination, and though she gassed the best examination she was re- used ordination on acount of her sex. | Q | eat, drink and be married | Montgomery street, aled to.the General Conference in 1Ss}§§ :ggethe refusal was confirmed. Sh: then applied to the Methodist Protes{an Church for ordination, and received ifl mé the 12th of October, 1880, being the{ st woman ordained in that denomination. AROUND THE CORRIDORS E. 0. Beylard and wife of San Mateo are at the California. George B. Schoonmaker, a business man of New York, s at the Palace. J. J. Anderson, a merchant of Martinez, is registered at the Grand with his wife. Charles Belding, a real estate dealer of Stockton, is at the Lick, in company with his wife. C. B. Van Zye, a diamond merchant of Cape Town, South Africa, is staying at the California. Wesley Clark, a prominent citizen of Los Angeles, is at the Grand, accom- panied by his wife. J. L. Sperry, a hotel-keeper of Big Trees, is in the city for a brief stay, and is regis- tered at the Occidental. Guy W. Wadsworth, who is connected with the Occidental Colle; at Los An- geles, is a guest at the Occidental. George T. Belden of Spokane, Wash., is at the Russ with his wife and son, en route to Stockton to visit a brother. Ross C. Cline, Pacific Coast passenger agent of the Wabash Railroad, with head- quarters at Los Angeles, is at the Occi- dental. “Admiral Kautz, who Is HE shelling Mataa- fa’'s men in Sa- WAS NOT moa,” sald a well S known naval man HURT. yesterday at the Occidental Hotel, 2 “is of German ex- traction, as his name would indicate; but while ordinarily of a phlegmatic disposi- tion, his humor machine is easily started running. Several years ago, while he was still a captain and on shore leave, he was invited to join a party of equestrians. During the ride Captain Kautz, whose horsemanship was perhaps on a par with that of most men of his profession, was thrown and got rather a bad fall. “He was up in a moment, and to the anxious inquiries of his friends replied that he was not hurt. It was evident, however, that the captaih had been badly shaken up, but he stuck to the story that there was nothing the matter with him. *‘Hurt? Me hurt!” he said. ‘I could not be hurt by a fall from a horse. Why, I have a brother who is a lieutenant col- onel of cavalry.’ “Captain Kautz was hurt, however, and had to take to his bed. Some days later he was visited by several of his friends, who guyed him about the denial that he | was hurt and also about the reason he had given for immunity from injury by that particular kind of accident. ‘That’s all right,’ said the doughty tain, as he winced at the pain in his back; ‘but my reason would have held good and I wouldn't be here now but for one thing. Why, you wouldn't believe it, but I have just heard that on the very day I fell off that hotse my brother was transferred from the cavalry to the in- fantry arm of the service.”” J. G. O'Neill, a mining man of Nevada and C. A. Perkins, a Mendocino cattleman, with his wife, are late arrivals at the Russ. Thomas Gower, a mi owner of Ma- dera; C. F. Cadwallader, an attorney of Red Bluff, and J. L. Haas, a merchant of Portland, Or., are among the arrivals at the Lick. C. O. Johnson, a mechanical engineer of Christiania, Norw: who has been to Honolulu and Australia establishing plants for irrigation, is located at the California. ver of G. M. Felton, president and rec the Cincinnati, New Orleans, T Pacific Railway, arrived 3 special car with his wife, and regi at the Palace. Hon. Whitelaw Reid came up from Mill- brae yesterday afternoon with his wife and engaged apartments at the Pa Mrs. Reid is the daughter of the multi- millionaire, D. O. Mi Besides t proprietor of the Ne Reid has the aving as United States Minister to France. is visiting the State for his health. ——— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, April 6.—Mr. and Mrs, H. E. Hall of San Francisco are at the Wellington Hotel. R. S. Schwartz of Los Angeles are at the Shoreham. —_———— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* ——— Stationery and printing, visiting cards and wedding invitations .at Sanborn & Vail's. . ————— Special information supplied dafly to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s).%10 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, ® —_————— “Le's see; what is the proverb about “That isn't right. It is ‘eat, drink and be merry.' “Oh! That's different.”’—Cincinnati En- quirer. —_———— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty yvears by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. 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