The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 12, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1899. . JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address Al Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE ......Market and Third Sts., S.*F. Telephone Main 1368, EDITORIAL ROOMS .217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. ngle Copies, & cents. tngle Month. CALL One Year, ! One Year.. are authorize forwarded AMUSEMENTS. obin Hood." *'Queen’s Lace Handkerchief.” Beautiful Golden Locks.” 00 and - Free Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon nd Ellis streets, Specialties. auer Recitals, Wednesday afternoon, chase . Market street, near Bighth—Bat- , Friday evening. ctures, Monday, April 17. 908 Broadway P. Tr eary st A y & Co. Chines 10:30 a m, . April 13, at GOVERNOR GAGE'S APPOINTMENTS. fe to say that if Governor Gage manipulates patronage within his control upon the lines sich have been laid down for him by some of his erd and supporters he will dispose of the Repub- a manner at once summary and effec- necessary at this time to recapitulate foreshadowed by the Governor's 1 interview at Los Angeles 1 said in 2 that it wou * upon any proposition. which the Burns touts “newspaper leve per pts the cou ion is the renfoval of Health In- It is said that this offi be made for an 1t sup: Dan Burns throughout the por torial contest Doc years have endeavored in this city to discharge their Under his direction the pure ment of the Health Board has become a He has scattered the food adul- r winds, and has practically com- he milkmen of this city to supply their cus- one of the few men who during recent full duty to the public. bureau. s with pure milk retofore to remove him, but in every case ve come to grief, solely because his record as 1| wds too strong to be overlooked. Ii Gov- shall now supplant him with the pro- 1 Sixth-street grogshop he will certainly a long step toward getting below the “news- ver level.” e Republican party is not, moreover, in-a con- to stand much of this sort of business. It al- has among politicians a in connection with the Senatorship, and arty will not stand the adop- uch political course as Governor Gage's ng the Burns machine have prepared for what is known as k eye file of the The Governor is under obligations to the people of If he forces upon them a machine Registrar, a machine water-front ad- n tration, a machine Health Board, to say noth- ing of a machine Labor Commissioner, they will cer- tainly The distinction of being a stanch friend of Dan Burns will be nothing to the distinction which history will leap upon him as being the wrecker of the Repub- lican party. San Francisco for his position. resent his conduct at the next election. THE DEATH OF TABOR: ITH the sing of ex-Senator Tabor ofColo- ado the West has lost one of its most unique figures, the Centennial State its greatest bene- W factor The story of Tabor's sudden accession to wealth reads like a story from the Arabian Nights. A poor storekeeper in the almost deserted town of QGro, he “grubstaked” a poorer cobbler, ignorant of mining. The luck of fools and tendericet is proverbial, and August Rische proved no exception to the rule. He struck the Little Pittsburg and made himself and Tabor. Right there the strength of character of the storekeeper showed. While Rische began at once to see how much fun he could get for his money, Tabor pressed his luck. He went in for more’“‘grub- stakes” and more mines and had more luck. Everything he touched became money. The “old man,” as he was called, was immediately surrounded by sycophants, who, every other means failing to turn his head, tried to make him believe that a great po- litical future was in store for him. For a time they made him believe it, but that time was short, being only the thirty days he served as an appointed Senator, which short term became famous only through the story of a $230 nightshirt that never was. Later he was gratified with election to the position of Lieutenant Governor, but his failure in that position was so conspicuous, even to himself, that Tabor was quite cured of political ambition. While he may have been foolish politically, it is agreed on all sides that he was not ungrateful to the State of Colorado for the riches he had taken from her h As best he could and as quickly he sought to repay. An opera-house in Denver which to this day is a model for its kind, was one of his first works. Numerous other buildings in the city, the pioneers in modern architecture in the West, were erected at his will. He was the head and front, with purse and in- fluence, in every. public movement as long as his money lasted. He was a poor manager, and the end came five years ago. Then he was forgotten until re- cently President McKinley, finding him in poverty, making a last struggle to regain the place he had lost, appointed him postmaster at Denver. How has Colorado remembered such a benefactor? Has she named a town after him or a public park or a schoolhouse, or even one little street? Not that the records show. The Centennial State had almost for- gotten Tabor until his death. Maybe she will place a ton of marble on his chest and yet call him blessed. 1d be difficult for him to get | pect to patronage he will | Sixth-street saloon- | Several attempts have been | THE SAMO@N SITUATION. AMOA has caused trouble and discussion in the S world out of proportion to its size and impor- tance. The natives are among the finest of the Polynesian people, ranking with the Maories and Kanakas in physical presence and power and in in- tellect, The natural tropical productions of the islands supplied their wants without labor, and instead of the diseases of civilization keeping their population within the bounds of this natural food supply, the peo- ple accomplished the same end by restricting their meat diet to the consumption of enemies killed or captured in war. Christian civilization found them out at last, and by prompt introduction of the loathsome diseases, which are among its gifts to aborigines everywhere, put an end to cannibalism not only by reducing the population through sickness, but also by making the survivors non-edible. After this part of the white man’s burden had been assumed and the Samoan soul had been put in the way of salvation, there arose a desire to occupy, possess and own the Samoan’s lands. During Grant's ad- ministration an ambitious American special Consul taught our people pet names for the islands and was annexed. However, manifest destiny was not as al- luring then as now, and the natives were left alone tc the exterminating influences of the pestilences we had bestowed upon them. During Mr. Cleveland's first administration the Samoan consulship was given to a San Franciscan, who found it slow business watching copra dry in the | of leading his king out and taking him by his shell | collar and gee string., while the German Consul did | to the island, it was hauled down and he was called | dents have jangled and backbitten each other, and ial is to be | | three big nations. sun and brought on a fight between Mataafa and Malietoa, rivals for the kingship. His description he same by the king favored of Germany, and knock- ng the two royal persons together to get them to fight, is one of the most amusing things in our con- sular history. This Consul thereafter ran up the flag over the royal palace in Apia and proclaimed an American protectorate. But, as he neglected to “nail the flag” home. During the Harrison administration this country invited England and Germany to assist it in the super- national task of bestowing good government upon Samoa, the difficulties being such that only the three strongest nations in the world could meet them. Ever since then Samoa has had probably the worst government ever known. The rights of the natives have been trampled under foot. The foreign resi the old cannibal days have seemed like a dream of | peace compared to the turmoil and tension resulting | frtom three little men governing an afflicted people for Out of this partnership of folly may issue trouble with Germany. It is claimed that England and the United States have violated the treaty of Berlin, in which the partnership of the three nations was ar- ranged. It is rather remarkable that England en- couraged Admiral Kautz to bombard the bamboo shacks of the natives and disregard the protests of | the representative of Germany. But, though we may | Lave been pulling international chestnuts out of the fire for Great Britain, we must go ahead and fight our German partner if we have to. It is part of the white man’s burden. The entire Samoan group and all that grows there is not worth enough to pay de- cent interest on the damage to American commerce | that would follow a declaratlon of war against Ger- many and would fall before a blow has been struck. | Yet we are now face to face with the possibility of sure the republic could not survive unless they were such a war, and it may be noticed that England is in | a position to stay at peace and let us fight it out, with | no more serious contribution to our weltare than her | highly valued and veteran “moral support.” M shirker of the Wglls-Fargo Express Com- | pany, having arranged for shifting the white man’s burden of taxation from himself and his com- pany to the shoulders of the general public, has turned his pious thoughts to the brown men of the | Orient and finds cause to mourn. In an article about as long-winded as a hypocrite’s | prayer he set forth his views of the conditions of the | THE TAXPAYERS' BURDEN. R. JOHN J. VALENTINE, the tax- | books and accounts open Malay laborers in the tropics and succeeded in get- ting it passed through the press of an evening paper | by means unknown to the public. Possibly it was by | some trick of legerdemain, a mutual interchange of | pass and repass between the parties to the plny—hut! that'is 2 minor matter. The main thing is: Mr. Val- | entine desires the people should know that he is weeping over the brown man's burden. It appears from his article that Mr. Valentine is sadly grieved because the “cowed and patient Malays, | working under the harsh supervision of agents, pro- duce wealth, that is rightfully theirs because earned by | them on lands which have been wrested and trickedj from them,” only to see that wealth carried off by | foreigners. Such grief for such a cause is undoubt- | edly philanthropical, but what does the weeping Mr. | Valentine think of Americans who produce wealth | only to see it tricked from them by the tax-shirking | corporation of which he is the most conspicuous or- | nament? The burden of taxation imposed upon the people of the United States for the purpose of raising a war | revenue would not be onerous to any if all bore their due shaze of it, but when rich corporations shift their | share upon others the burden becomes heavy upon | those 05 whom it falls and is the more irritating be- | cause the unwilling bearer knows it has been imposed | upon him by the tricks and frauds of unpatriotic | shirkers of public duty. | Again and again the courts have declared that the tax imposed upon the business of express companies | by the war revenue act must be paid by the compa- nies, that it is the duty of their agents to affix the revenue stamps the law requires. These declarations have been made in many States and by many authori- | ties. Still Mr. Valentine refuses to obey and fights for time. Every day of delay gives him that much longer in which to levy tribute upon the public, and he avails himself of it to the utmost. Clearly the white man's burden of taxation frets Mr. Valentine only when he cannot shift it upon some one else. When he can accomplish the shirking he resumes his show of piety, prepares circulars full’ of scriptural injunctions for his employes at one time and at another prepares articles on the wrong of | robbing the brown man—and passes them along. The brown man of the Orient need not be grateful to his unexpected champion. Mr. Valentine mourns for the lot of the Malay only because he has no share in the spoils. If the fortunes of war and imperialism bring the suffering laborers of the Orient under the domination of the Wells-Fargo Company Mr. Valen- tine would skin them alive. D — If Italy insists upon having a port in China it would pay the Empress to call in old Menelek of Abyssinia to act as arbitrator. | liking. PURCHASING SENATORSHIPS. T seems that so long as the purchase of United States Senatorships was confined to respectable distinguished soldiers and statesmen irited millionaires, the practice of putting them up and knocking them down to the highest bid- der did not arouse much resentment among the peo- ple. But for some time a low, disreputable class of boodlers have been emboldened by the example of their betters to make bids. The deadlocks throughout the country and the adjournments of Legislatures without election are, it is affirmed by intelligent authority, the result of ‘attempts :0 secure the toga by men entirely unworthy to aspire to it. The cases of Addicks in Delaware, Quay in Penn- sylvania and Burns in California point the which adorns this tale. Addicks is a Republican mil- lionaire politician, and for six years he has been try- ing to bribe the Delaware Legislature to give him the Senatorship. A few days before the late General As- | sembly adjourned three Democrats, one Senator and two Assemblymen, voted for Addicks. There is so little question that they were paid to do so that all | the people of Delaware have assumed such to be the | fact. The president pro tem. of the Senate struck the name of the Senator off all the committees to which he had been appointed, and the Assemblymen were ostracized by their colleagues, irrespective of party. Everywhere the three men go they are pointed out as boodlers and dendunced as having sold themselves to | Addicks. There was some difficulty, in fact, at one time in protecting them from the wrath of a mob which had assembled about the Capitol to lynch them. In Pennsylvania Quay has held the Senatorship for two terms, with the effect of arousing an opposi- tion in his own party which bids fair to defeat him. Quay's methods are the methods of a practical, un- scrupulous politician. He is the type of men who are everywhere dragging the Government down to the level of the slums, and to whose efforts to achieve power the historians of the American republic will attribute the results which the historians of Rome at- tributed to the Praetorian guard. Nothing need be said of the Burns campaign in California. ple. The important question is, however, how are the aspirations of the corrupt politicians who are now aspiring to the Federal Senate throughout the coun- | try to be permanently thwarted? If this class of men are permitted to continue their purchases of Senator- ships, in the course of time the great historic upper house of Congress will become nothing more or less | than a refuge for vulgar millionaires and political boodlers. The degradation which presages the de- cline of its influence has already begun to appear in the contempt which all classes of people feel for some of its members. @N INTERESTING EXPERIMENT. O legislative act of the past winter has attracted N -more general attention than that of the Legis- lature of Michigan authorizing the city of De- troit to acquire the ownership of street railroads within municipal limits and operate them as public works. The experiment is certainly to be watched with more than ordinary interest by the people of every city large enough to have a considerable street railway system. a While the municipal operation of street railways is common enough in Europe, it has never been at- tempted on any notable scale in this country. What is to be undertaken at Detroit is therefore a radically new departure in American municipal administration and will afford something like an effective test of the policy of governmental control of public utilities of which we have heard 'so much in the way of theoreti- cal discussion in recent years. The Michigan law provides that the negotiations for the purchase of existing lines and the arrangement | of details for operating them shall be intrusted to a ¢ommission of three persons, to be designated by the City Council, and that body has chosen Governor Pingree and two associates friendly to the plan to carry out the work. The commission has large powers. 1t*is required to report to the Council the price it is proposed to pay for the street railways, to make an- nual reports of receipts and expenditures, to hold to inspection by legislative authority, and is forbidden to incur any debts whatever in operating the roads, but otherwise | its action is untrammeled. Virtually the commission is an indepéndent body charged with the sole function of operating street railways in the interests of the community. It must file the annual reports stated, and its accounts must be public, but it can act in freedom and of its own initiative, being subject in no way to the Council or the Mayor. It is not responsible to any one even for the amount it pays for the roads, the Legislature having authorized it to issue bonds of the city for the amount required—a sum estimated variously from $12,000,000 to $17,000,000. i The undertaking is in every respect ‘a Pingree measure. It remains to be seen with what success he will be able to carry it.out. The sentiment in favor of municipal control of all locaf public utilities is al- ready strong in the country, and if the Detroit ex- periment prove successful, corporations monopolizing such utilities in other cities will have to be more careful of the rights of the public than they have been, as otherwise they may be forced to give up the busi- ness. One of the leading newspapers of Berlin announces, with Teutonic frankness, that Emperor William is greatly displeased with the conduct of Admiral Kautz at Samoa, and that the German Government will secure from America adequate satisfaction for the moral interests of the German empire. Em- peror William is perhaps aware that Uncle Sam is drifting into the habit of sending satisfaction to the finicky honor of nations through a cannon mouth. —_— A London dispatch insinuates that two wily investi- gators have attempted, in the service of Americans, to discover the secret of the construction of the English yacht Shamrock, with which the English hope to win back the America cup. Experience has taught Ameri- can yachtsmen that English yachtsmen have no se- crets worth stealing. 7 Governor Roosevelt is becoming surprisingly can- did. Without any necessary provocation he admits that he is a cog in a political machine, but such a cog as will smash the machine if it works not to his It is barely possible that the Governor of New York is deluded by the belief that the tail can yet move the dog. —_— The dispatches announce that U. S. Grant III has been badly battered in a street fight at Highland Falls. The row wasn't a circumstance to that from which U. S. Grant II recently emerged at Sacra- mento. There is impending a cream of Tartar uprising in Kasan, wherever that may be. Smokeless baking powder will probably be used moral | All its details are still familiar to our peo- | lacal | 4 contributed to the discussion i THE GOVERNO last fall has caused a shudder of dis; others alike. It is only necessary to bitter denunciation of such a polic; relief came to the people the thou The Legislature was not.in sess R O o R = s to aid the sufferers. up from the sufferers. the man oce Imagine the should reply in a taunting manner Governor) regarding his disposition making the bill a law had almost ex ‘What manner of man is thi the people’s benefactor? indignation are frequent when the precious bales of hay ‘has been thu: people shout for Gage and vote for months ago? Yes, but not to be thu: they had elevated a man to the exa who was too broad-minded to drag lo! they are doomed to disappointm The bill has been lost by the poc! will not miss the eleven or twelve has shown his hand to the people of 4043+ 4+ 6 404010 04ID+0 +040 The Paso Robles Recprd. The Governor's failure to sign the bill to reimburse Claus Spreckels for the amount of money he so readily advanced to assist in relief work sht was where and how to get it. less to render public aid, but he immediately set to work and found a beneficent man, Claus Spreckels, who said he would advance the money “The glad news soon spread and “God bless Claus Spreckels” pying the exalted position as Governor of the State should not only refuse to sign the bill appropriating the money advanced, but “mys It is little wonder that expressions of bitter alted position as Governor of the State of California, pression of their thoughts concerning such action. LR R o O R SRR R RN HOH+O4G+ 0+ 0+ 0 + 0404040404 0404044040+ OHO4IPOPOrO+O+E RDENOUNCED gust to his (former) constituents and broach the subject to call forth a v. When the thought of asking for ion and Governor Budd was power- went ir indignation when informed that to a communication sent him (this of the bill when the time limit for pired., erfous” Governor Gage to so treat thought that the provider of those s treated by one occupying the ex- Did many of these @ him durfng the campaign of a few X s disappointed without the free ex- g The people believed i + o Ited position to which he aspired a charitable act into politics. But L] 0 CHANGE S TAKEN PLACE IN THE SEASONS An Ave'rége Rainfall Is Maintained. THE PROBLEM OF IRRIGATION | SUBJECT IS DISCUSSED BEFORE | | BOARD OF TRADE. Pumping Plant System Finds Favor With Authorities Over Present 7 thod of Taking Water From Streams. The climate of California has undergone | no change, and is undergoing none. The | average rainfall, taking years in groups and not singly, has shown no diminution in the past fifty years. This was the dic- tum laid down at a meeting of the State Board of Trade yesterday by men who | have made a part of their life work the study of conditions which have a bearing on the farming industry of the State. | Their deduction is that the potency of the | forces that are at work to produce rain | are the same now as in the past, and that they will continue in effectiveness. | The discussion as to existing conditions | in California was opened by W. H. Mill From a recently compiled chart he showed | the rainfall for half a century, declaring that it was not quantity, but distribution, | which had the most beneficent effect upon | field culture. It was best to have general | rain. Tt should, properly, be light in Octo- | | ber and heavy in November. There should | | be none tn December or January, and then light rains into Ma; According to sta- tistics, January 10 marks the middle of the | season, the rainfall up to that time being | usually one-half that for the winter. Mr. Mills dilated upon the benefits to be de- rived from irrigation as an adjunct to the rainfall. On this he said: Fruit raising, vine growing and small farming in California will depend for their success in a very great measure \ upon the artifictal application of wate: These applications have proven prof- itable and will continue to be so under favorable conditions without irriga- tion; but they are far more profitable with it. Every orchardist and vine- yardist ought also to be a gardener, and, in order to diversify the produgts of the land, irrigation must be resorted to. Clover, berries, gardens, orchards and vineyards should be found on. the same holdings and should occupy the attentlon of the cultivator of the soil in their various seasons. This diversity would in a measure equalize the de- mand for labor throughout the year and greatly improve (?IE labor condi- tions. Irrigation will enable the or- chardist and vineyardist to supply his taple with poultry, eggs, milk, butter, vegetables and fruits, and thus confer upon his holding its first and par: mount duty of affording hfm a co: lete subsistence. The problem of liv- ng having been sol\'eé). the question of profit would become more certain and, happlly, less important. The an- clent methods of irrigation will be su- erseded by modern and more econom- c_methods. This revolution will be referable to the cheapening of mechan- lcal power and the increased efficiency of pumping machinery. Under the old method a main canal carrving water at an elevation to lay a certain district under irrigation was necessary. Its construction and maintenance were costly, while the application of water to lateral ditches was also costly and unsatisfactory. A gravity supply of water can be passed over a surface where the decline is constant. There are no lands sufficlently level to make more than 60 per cent of their surfaces subject to irrigation from any point of elevation in their vicinity. Naphtha or gasoline “engines have furnished g very cheap power for pumping, %hile Improvements in pumps have made their use far more economic than the application of water by more primitive and crude method of ditches. Of course, the water must be brought to a point from which it may be pumped economically, and this can be done in three ways— first, by a main canal, which is tapped only with the suction of pumps. Such a canal would cost less and would be more permanent in its construction, because it would not be constructed with reference to supplying water to laterals. Second, by the use of the channels of living streams. For the most part the irrigable lands of Call- fornia are accessible to streams. Third, by the sinking of wells. Concerning the latter, it should be noted that an irrigated country soon fills with water, and wells in such a country afford an ample supply for such portions of land holdings as need irrigation. The eco- nomic use of the pump is also greatly reinforced by the facility with which in modern times electrical power is transmitted at cheap rates. Some practical experiments in pumping were made in varlous parts of the State during the drought season of 1898, It is stated, on seemingiy rellable au- thority, that there are not far from 2000 Irrigation pumps in operation in the county of Santa Clara alone. For the most part these are using wells, and thelr use has proven beneficial and leiwnmgil“l'th T egarding the use, of ation o lemental to the rainfall in ganta C?:IPR. County, the following was volunteered: | “Many of the orchards of twenty acres have their own pumping plants. Some ten | acre orchards have a plant and sell water | also to neighbors. ost of the larger | plants are 50 arranged that they also | sell water to adfoining orchards, and by this system, which iS now pretty weill developed, owing to the drought of last year, the principal orchard district of Santa Clara County is pretty well pro- tected in the way of Irrigation.” 1. H. Thomas of Visalla, Tulare County, the follow- | plants could be introduced whic nent. ket veto system. Claus Spreckels thousand dollars, but the Governor California. ing statement as to the advantages de- rived from irrigation by use of a pumping plant system. He said: are any advantages to be gained by the pumping plant system over the stem of taking water from the streams, one of which is box- ing the water under your control at the time you need it; ‘another is that the water is free .of the various seeds that spread over your land from chan- nel frrigation, thereby making the expense less in keeping the land in 0od condition for the growing crops. ne of the greatest advantages with the orchardist is a preventative in the shape of a severe frost. The object lessons of the past winter in this seciton are indisputable. Where late irrigatign and winter f{rrigation was ful!n!\‘eg with good cultivation the eit- rus and dectduous orchards stood the temperature without damage, _whiie adjoining lands, which were dry and uncultivated, were badly Injured at a temperature of 22 to 28. With pumping plant ready and the temperature at the freezing point, by filling the ditches through the night from wells with water at 65 degrees, it would rajse the temperature several degrees in the orchard and in- many instances 5 a fruit crop that would other- wise have been destroyed by the frost. The difference between the te ture of the water and the frosi killing point, 28 degrees, is about degrees. Thus it will be en that the atmospheric temperature would be raised sufficiently by the temperature of the water to save the fruit. In his y : pumping plant system Mr. Mills expressed the belief that San Joaquin Valley would not be hab- itable if f{rrigated by the old system throughout its length and breadth. He sald extensive irrigation by ditches means a swamp district in which is found ther- mal fever and malaria. Irrigation, he said, fertilizes the soil and at the same time equalizes the tem- perature. It glves to the land plant food when water is pumped out of a river where it has hccumulated. In this way the land never deteriorates, but is en- riched 3 Colonel John P. Irish told of the im- ortance which drainage had attained at resno. From long continued irrigation the land is full of water and is commen- cing to fill the low places. This water, he thought, should be drained off, to be used | again. He called upon Arthur Briggs of Fresno for his views. . Mr. Briggs first controverted the state- ment made by Mr. Mills that a series of frrigation ditches would produce disease. He said irrigatien and drainage went hand in hand. County the old irrigation ditches of ten years ago are being used to draw off the water. He belleved small pumping ‘would water from the. ditches cheaper etter than by running it off through ‘Water should not be used more than once, it develops alkali in too large quantities. To prevent this 1t should be carried away through the earth to be saturated again with fertilizing ma- pum and laterals. terial. His people irrigate one vear in ‘advance to aid nature and to provide against a possible drought, Early irri- gation with cold water checks growth, as it chills plants and trees. Mrs. Elizabeth Shields of Sacramento told briefly of the system of irrigation on Feather River and said that the pump- in, stem would be tried. inmn the members present were: Gen- erai N. %" Chipman, George C. Perkins, J. S. Emery, Craigie Sharp, Mrs. Elizabeth Shields, E. W. Runyan. W. H. Mills, Colonel John P. Irish, W. Frank Plerce, Mark L. McDonald, George T. Trow- bridge, E. W. Maslin, 1. H. Thomas and C. F. Montgomery. AROUND THE CORRIDORS J. M. Davis, a merchant of Coos Bay, is at the Russ. Edward F. Searles left for the East on last eévening's overland train. B. F. Hartley and D. M. Clough, min- ing men of Auburn, are late arrivals at the Grand. M. M. Potter, proprietor of the Hotel Van Nuys at Los Angeles, is registered at the Palace. Robert -Benson, a State Senator of Du- buque, Jowa, is registered at the Occi- dental with his wife. Colonel 8. M. Mills, U. 8. A, is at the Occidental with his family and will short- 1y proceed to Honolulu. A. L. Cuesta, one of the largest manu- facturers of tobacco in the United States, is registered at the Palace from Tampa, Fla. Joseph Kirkpatrick of Palmer, Mich., is visiting his nephew, Manager Kirkpat- rick of the Palace, and is accompanied by his wife. Amos Burr left yesterday for Reno, Nev., on business connected with the pas- senger department of the New York Cen. tral lines. Thomas O. Toland of Ventura and Alex Brown of Milton, members of the State Board of Equalization, are regis- tered at the Lick. C. W. Sieberling, who is engaged in the‘ manufacture of farming implements and owns flour mills in Akron, Ohio, is stay- ing at the California. 5 i L. D. Hammond, an attorney of.Chl- cago; Frank M. Buck, a Vacaville bank- er; E. W. Runyon, a banker of Red Bluff, and Bradner W. Lee of Los Angeles are among the arrivals at the Palace. —————————— CALIFORNIANS IN CHICAGO. CHICAGO, April 1L—At Northern: W, the Great Avery, W. Delaney, H. Windt, San Francisco; H. B. Wall, L. Ja- % coby, J. J. Jeffries, Los Angeles; J. E. §myth, Pasadena. At the Windsor: T. Bassett, T. J6hnson, Los Angeles. At the Grace: S. L. Hill, E. H. Jorner, Mrs. and Miss Torrer, Los Angeles. At the Wyom- ing: C. E. Wilson, San Francisco. At the Palmer: 8. C. Pemberton, Oakland. At the Sherman: J. C. King; Pasadena; F. 8. Messer, Sacramento. At the Audi- torium: F. W. 'Bradley, San Francisco. At the. Briggs: E. H. Thompson, San Francisco. —_— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, April ..—Dr. W. H. Mays and family and K. H. Mays, of San Fran- cisco, are at the Marlborough. E. C. irv- ing of San Francisco is at the Imperial. e, ———— Addressed by Mr. Valentine. J. J. Valentine will speak this evening before Liberty Branch of the Soclalist Labor {a.ny at the Turk-street Temple, 117 Turk street. Subject, “Benevolent As- similation of the Filipinos.” S 2C8 2c8 208 SCR SO SUR SUR 208 SOR SOR MO 208 208 S0R U8 208 208 23 On the east side of Fresno | CALIFORNIA OIL TO ENTER ASIATIC MARTS Pittsburg Firm to En- ter the Local Field. i £ 'BIG REFINERY [N FRESNO | EMERY’S AGENTS EN ROUTE TO THE SOUTHERN WELLS. | With a Big Refining Station on Thir | Coast the State Could Con- ! trol the Trans-Pacific Market. | S | i L. E. Mallory and W. M. Graham, members of the Emery Refining Com- pany, one of the largest ofl producing firms of Pennsylvania, are registered at | the Palace from Pittsburg. They have not come out to California. on a pleasure trip, but as a matter of good solid busine: which, if it is con- | summated, opens up a brilliant future for this State’s budding industry. The primary attraction that has brought them here is the oil wells in the Fresno and Santa Barbara regions. The development work done in those sections the last year has opened up hundreds of good producing wells, but it has not opened up a profitable market for the crude product. Nearly all of it must be shipped East for refining, and the long haul plays havoc with the margin. It | | is the intention of the Emerys to estab- lish one refinery, and possibly more, in | the southern fields for the purpose of | refining the oil here and extracting its by-products to meet the rapidly grow- | ing demand. California ofls refined here in the State would in_a short time con- | trol the Asiatic and Hawaiian markets, | as there would be no heavy transconti- | nental frieght chargeable against them, | and they could be sold at a less price | than the products of Eastern refineries. If the Emery people carry out their plan it is their intention to nay particu- har attention to the extraction of gaso- ne. “There is a marvelous demand grow- ing in the Hawalian Islands,” said Mr. Mallory yesterday, “for American ofis and particularly for gasoline. There are | big pumping ‘stations on nearly all of | the sugar plantations and gasoline en- glnes are generally used. “The Anglicizing of the Orient is al- ready having its effect on our business. The demand for coal ofls, so called, and all of the by-products of petroleum, is increasing rapidly. To make the largest margin of profit from trans-Pacific trade we must establish 'refineries in this State, which nature has generously en- dowed with a very high grade of oil There I8 no reason why California should not control the Asiatic market as well as that of Haw: I do not care to go_into our move fully until we have made a tour of the southern fields and see what are the conditions that we must meef.” ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. AT NEGROS ISLAND—A: S, City. It was the First Battalion, First California Volunteérs, that landed at Negros Is! under Colonel James F. Smith. The c panies of the battalion were A, B, | and H. | S THE PRESIDENT—E. S. W., Berkeley, Cal. There is not anything in the consti- | tution of the United States nor in the | statutes at_large which says that | President of the United States may not | leave the United States during his term | of office. | MIDWINTER FAIR—H. H., City. )Grnund for the Midwinter Fair in Golden | | Gate Park, San Francisco, was broken on the 24th of August, 1893, The fair was opened January 27, 1894, and was officially closed July 4, following. | CERAMICS—L. H. W., City. It would be impossible to fix the date of Chinese ceramics that have upon them figures of Chinese without queue, but it is anterior | to 1684, at which time the first Emperor of the' present dyn: compelled the common people to shave the head and wear a queue. ——r———————— Cal glace fruit 50c per ™ at Townsend’s.® —_——— Floral and plain crepe tissue paper, flowers and lamp shades, cheap, at San- born & Vail's, 741 Market street. * —————— Spectal information supplied dafiy to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), £10 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 * —————— She—Do you believe that men and women will ever have equal rights in this country? 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