The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 14, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1899. o+ oo APRIL 14, 3800 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. A T i e, tddress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. o At PUBLICATION OFFICE......Morket and Third Sts, S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS ..2IT to 28! Stevenson Street Te! e Main 1874. DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEBK. Single Coples, 5 cents. Terms by Mall, Including Postage: CALL (includmg Sunday Call), one year.... CALL (including Sunday Call), § mont! CALL (including Sunday Call), 3 mont CALL—By Single Month PAILY DAILY ILY LY NDAY CALL One Year. WEEKLY CALL, One Ye: All postmasters are authorized to recetve subscriptions. ocoples will be forwarded when requested. OAKLANP OFFICE ....908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. ..Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.. Wellington Hotel €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE...... e ..Marquette Bullding C.GEORCE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, cpen until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until ©:30 o'clock. 62! McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 6I5 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Misston street, open until 10 o'clock. 229i Marke street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 28I Misslon street, open until 9 o'clock. 108 Eleventh | street, open until 9 o'clock. 1805 Polk street, ope until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second angq Kentucky streets. open untll § o'clock. Bample AMUSEMENTS. ‘Robin Hood. » House—"Queen’s Lace Handkerchiet.” den Lecks.” Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon Ellis streets, Specialties. als, Wednesday afternoon, ¥ a Co., Market street, near Eighth—Bat- g Pictures, Monday, April 17, popular bayy resort. Ausements every AUCTION SALES. his day, at 2 nese goods. day, at 10:30 a. m. and 2:30 p. and 8 p. m., at 39 THE MERCHANTS' ASSOCIATION. N giy the a review of the work accomplished by ¢ the past three e directors at the recent quarterly meet- present a report of a highly gratify The report has been published in full in t number of the Association Review and to be read by all who take an intelligent in- Association for h next month will hold its 1eeting, has grown from a member- i forty-seven public-spirited citizens who organ- of 1032 firms. icreased strength there has been an in-| Iness to the city, and the record of the s the assertion of the report of the di- | “with an active regiment of 2000 regular mbers the strength and usefuiness of the Mer- Association would be doubled.” The conditions of San Francisco are such that her to an enrollment business | account is entirely immaterial in the premises. | of March for a.man named Sandusky, and that should { have been enough to convict him of the offense of vio- | ber oi persons who have availed themselves of the ogressive citizens can count nothing done so long | 3 ns to be done. Therefore the chief | terest in the report lies not in the review of what | has been accomplished, but in the outline of work | future. The directors offer an attractive pro- | , conspicuous in which is the suggestion of | m in the management of the harbor and water | On that subject the report says: ‘“No move- ment is of more consequence to San Francisco than | the question of maritime commerce. Every effort 1d be made to foster and encourage the shipping | sts of this port. | much r front To this end we believe that the | nd ownership of the harbor front should | an Francisco, and thdt ultimately all harbor | toils should be abolished.” There can be little question concerning the impor- tance of relieving the commerce of the city as far as{ possible from the restrictions and burdens now placed | In these days trade is going to the ports where the best facilities are offered for shipping. Ad-| vantages of geographical location are no longer the | domi t factors in building up ocean ports. Arti- | ficial improvements must be made, wise harbor regu- iors adopted, and ample wharf room afforded for | the economical loading and unloading of vessels, San | must keep up with the demands of ad- cing civilization and competition in such matters or lose her prestige in the commercial world. e ‘The San Lorenzo congregation of the Rev. E. L. Burnett seems to have been inspired with some rea- when it, individually and collectively, repu- di: ouncement of the reverend gentleman that his financial affairs had become the personal.con- cern of God. Pastor Burnett struck for a raise in salary, and because he did not get it declared, with | some heat, that God, in anger for the indifference of | the flock, had summarily removed two of its mem- bers from their earthly field of usefulness. And now it is announced from Paris with a great flourish of trumpets that a substitute for rubber has been discovered. It is made from corn. It is really tco bad that Paris is far behind the times. Judging from the amount of extract of corn San Franciscans have been pouring down their necks for years, it would seem that the new substitute for rubber is noth- ing more than a chestnut. trol a reves upon it. son d the C. P. Huntington has won another victory over the farmers of California in delaying, for five months, the case which was instituted to determine whether or not grain freight rates should be reduced. | decision of the Mister Joe Watkins of San Francisco tried recently e in Seattle to twist the tail of a lion. He is in the hospital now, painfully aware of the fact that your Uucle Sam is the only individual that can perform that feat with impuni Menelek of Abyssinia should found the Grand Or- | best citizens; THE GAMBLERS’ REFUGE. T was anticipated that the Ingleside racetrack gam- l blers would not be convicted in the Police Court without a struggle, but it was not expected that the foundation of their campaign against decency and good morals would be laid in the department presided over by Judge Mogan. Ever since his appointment by the Board of Supervisors to the office of Police Judge this young man has displayed some of the strength of character and decision which distinguishes good administrators of the law. Those who have watched his course have prophesied that he would make a record as Police Judge which would prolong his service in that department of the criminal law. But if the racetrack gamblers can obtain from him such a charge as he delivered on Wednesday in the Jones case there is no longer any hope for him. Evidently he is inclining strongly toward the cause of immorality, and the mere impanelment of a jury for the purpose of obscuring his course will not blind the public to the fact that he has cast his lot with the Ingleside gamblers and proposes to stand or fall with them. There is no excuse for the delivery of such a charge as Judge Mogan is reported to have given the jury in the Jones case. That culprit could not excuse himself by pleading that as a bookmaker he was acting for some one else. It is no palliation of crime to assert that one is acting by proxy. Every man is responsible for violating the law, and whether Jones was em- ployed by somebody or was gambling on his own The prosecution proved that Jones made a bet on the 14th lating the municipal ordinance. If Judge Mogan thinks that crimes of this sort may be committed by proxy he is thinking in a manner entirely at variance with the penal laws and entirely in consonance with the contentions of the racetrack gamblers. There is no charity, however, in assuming that he is ignorant of the law. He has been a Police Court practitioner himself and he knows how juries are “fixed” and Judges “pulled” in that tribunal. If the Ingleside gamblers escape through his court he ay as well abandon politics as a means of livelihood bereafter. No man’s personal or political future can be promoted by assisting the racetrack gamblers to re-establish their infamous resort at Ingleside. If Judge Mogan desires to throw himself away on this proposition he may as well look the issue square in the face first as last. HOME SEEKERS IN WASHINGTON. CCORDING to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer /\ the recent effort of the railroads to bring home-seekers from the East to that State have already attained a high degree of success. The move- ment was started by President Hill of the Great Northern, but the other lines terminating at Puget | Sound ports soon followed his lead. As the Post- Intelligencer says: | pressed into the service of expatriated Americans, “The competing roads did not like it, but they were | forced in seli-preservation to meet the cut and ad- vertise for home-seekers, too. This far-sighted rail- | road man, not content with bi-weekly colonist ex-" cursions, soon announced another innovation, and | made his daily trains carry westward bound folks at | a still less fare; until now the reduction to $25 from | St. Paul to Seattle is practically permanent.” While no statistics are forthcoming as to the num- cheap rates, a Minneapolis authority is quoted as es- timating that the railroads from that city will prob- ably carry 20,000 home-seekers to Washington during the present year. While that is doubtless the exag- | geration of an’ oversanguine calculator, the prospects | are that the Puget Sound country is to have some- | thing of an immigration boom of large proportions. The greater number of immigrants attracted by | these low rates are not of a kind that could be profit- ably invited to California, where land values are com- paratively high. They seem to be mainly persons of small means, but of great hopefulness and enterprise, | who come West to find surer returns for industry than their former homes afforded. Describing one of the newly arrived parties the Post Intelligencer says:i “These people will end all right: they have left | the homes that have been theirs, mostly m poverty, | for the last generation or two, full of expectation, and | some of them with only money enough to take them | to some of the farm centers near here and pay for a filing on 2 Government homestead. But they are full 4 of pluck and the stuff that ends them among the very | they know how to farm—they had to, | o1 they could not have eked out even the miserable | lot that befalls the unfortunate Kansan—and with the | inspiriting certainty that a fraction of theit former | effort will give them not only comfort, but after a while affluence, they are going to transform the now unpopulated districts of this fertile commonwealth into scenes of thrift and husbandry and prosperity.” While California cannot compete with Washington | in the way of inducements to home-seekers with but scant means, the immigration started in that direc. tion is likely to prove beneficial to us by influencing | well-to-do families to follow the movement, and many | of that class are certain to be attracted to California. | At any rate, whatever tends to build up and popu- lafe the Pacific States cannot fail to be beneficial to us in some way, and we may therefore feel consider-* able gratification in the good reports that come to us | from Washington. WHOLEéALE COLOMIZATION. two millions “of square miles, of which, at the end of last year, 22,288,153 were held in the form | of colonies and protectorates by eight European pow- ers. It is interesting to follow the evidences during the present century of the rapidity with which the monarchies and empires of Europe have extended | their philanthropic movements to diffuse the light of | Christian civilization and the gospel of peace. Great Britain has always been the supreme head of the imperial annexationists. In the eighteenth cen- tury the founders of this republic, antagonizing her views of colonization by the Declaration of Indepen- dence and by military force, largely reduced her pos- sessions on this continent. Nevertheless, in 1800, as the net result of a little more than two centuries of imperial extension, she had acquired, beyond her home area of 120,079 square miles,. a moderate ad- | THF, entire area of the world is estimated at fifty- | | judicated cases and each of which is made to assume | one beaming on this continent with the beauty of | freedom and equality and the other turned in the | direction of the Orient with the hard and brutal ex- | falsifications and the shameless abuse of learning and | acid. The ingenuities of diabolism are almost un- | men and jurists and many historical facts to prove | object as 3sgigned was “to provide also for the estab- | councils on an equal footing with the original States has extended her colpnial area from 680,764 to 3,617, 327 square miles. During this same period virtually the whole of the German colonies, now covering 1,020,070 square miles, have been gained. The total foreign populations within the beneficent _rule of European imperialism number 447,296,859, of which Great Britain has appropriated as the share of her Empress-Queen 307,848,122. These figures pos- sess considerable significance for the average Ameri- can citizen and enable us to ascertain with some pre- cision the nature and extent of the new business in which the advocates of cheap labor and the thirsty aspirants for imperial glory and for the fruits of im- pegial robberies are solicitous that the United States should engage. They also suggest the kind of compe- tition before us and the armaments that will be neces- sary to maintain. our country—not as a world power, for that she is already—but as a chief among world- grabbers. At the dawn of the nineteenth century Spain possessed colonies to the comparatively modest figure of 1,640,076 square miles, but these have now dwindled to 405,438. Our total capital, however, if we start in the new enterprise, though de- rived from Spain and resting on her title, will em- brace only 3670 square miles in Porto Rico and 114,326 in the Philippines, unless the mask is thrown off with respect to Cuba, when zan addition of 41,653 may be computed, or a grand total of 159,651. If we become an imperial republic on our own hook, as there is mot much of the available surface of the habitable globe left to steal we shall either have to be contented with a retail business or bombard the principles of our Declaration of Independence and of our constitution into our European neighbors. If we should enter into a British copartnership our contri- bution of capital would be inadequate and our in- terest in the profits so limited that we should be a comparatively insignificant member of the firm. On the whole it would be better for us to adhere to our own soil, to improve and increase. our own Cau- casian population, to develop our own resources, to hold our Government to the basis of popular sover- eignty, constitutionally regulated, and to depend upon expansion that is inherent in liberty, law and order, and the natural evolution of distinctive Americanism. THE PARADOX OF IMPERIALISM. contains two arguments—one for and the other against the constitutional right of the United | States to acquire and hold foreign colonies. An | article on “Expansion and the Constitution,” power- | fully written, enforces the views of the question that | have been frequently urged by The Call, and turhs{ upon a proposition, generally accepted until the false- | hoods and the sophistries of imperialism were im- THE American Law Review for March-April | which it expresses in these cogent terms: “Our instituted Government represents the soyer- eignty of our nation only in regard to our foreign relations. It is not true that it can exercise the power | of other sovereign nations unless expressly prohibited | by our constitution; but the reverse is true, that it | can rightfully exercise only such authority as is ex- pressly delegated by our constitution.” But an article on “Our Right to Acquire and Hold | Foreign Territories” is perhaps the most painful illus- tration yet published of the inherent wickedness of | imperialism. It flagrantly reverses a doctrine, rarely questioned in our national history, by the assertion that, as to external and international relations “the Federal Government possesses every sovereign power not expressly prohibited by the constitution.” Upon this radically untrue assumption it bases a series of propositions, each accompanied by citations of ad- a meaning never designed by the court from which it emanated and thus misapplied and misused to fortify a conclusion that, two short years ago, would have been ‘denounced as treasonable. The writer of the article supplies ‘our Government with a double face, pression of saturated despotism. He claims that the United States can acquire territory in any manner or in any place, that in such territories the Federal constitution has no application, that they can be held, treated, used and governed exactly as we please, that the power of Congress over them is more absolute than over any other national property, that within them the people have no inalienable rights, that there is no implication that they shall be guaranteed a re- publican form of government or that taxation and representation shall be correlative, that their inhab- itants are not citizens and that there is no require- ment that they shall ever be converted into States. We have now one example at least of the manu- factured premises, the monstrous perversions, the of the reasoning faculty, of which the extreme im- perialists are capable. Every case quoted in the article in question strengthens the argument that furnishes the antidote to this allopathic dose of legal prussic limited, but they are easily exposed. The Call has published many extracts from the writings of states- that the entire structure of imperialism in the United States is “the baseless fabric of a vision.” Among the reserved precedents in our history there is one, however, to which it is here appropriate to allude. The ordinance of July 13, 1787, “for the government of the territory of the United States northwest of the river Ohio” is still extant in the Revised Statutes of the United States. In its preliminary declaration, “unalterable unless by common consent,” its chief lishment of States and permanent government there- in and for their admission to a share in the Federal at as early a period as may be consistent with the general interest.”” Article 5 declares that “the said ter- ritory and the States which may'be formed therein shall forever remain a part of the confederacy of the United States,” and the ultimate purpose of the com- pact is expressed in Article 6: “There shall be formed in the said territory not less than three nor more than five States.” The five States, including Ohio, In- diana and Illinois, were formed in compliance with this blended legislation and contract, which has been substantially followed in the treaties and literally in the Congressional action through which, by contigu- ous territorial accretions, the Union has been extend- ed to the Pacific. : AGAINST THE RANCH AND RURAL LIFE The Russian famine, covering a region bounded by a line drawn from Moscow to Klev, reaching as far north as Archangel and embracing the grain districts of Samara, Saratoff and Simbirsk, is of ‘more interest to America than the sympathy it excites. The vast and now unfruitful dis- trict on which tens of thousands are starving is the celebrated “black earth” zone, formerly the seat of the highest cultivation. Its final reduction to a desert s a calamity that forms a study for economists. This fertile country in the heart of Russia has been destroyed by stripping off its forests. Its fields were formerly interspersed by wide tracts of noble timber. The climate ‘was mild and moist and agricuiture flourished to such an extent that it was the granary of Russia. The forests have been destroyed and the land is no longer fertile, It is interesting to know that this has occurred under com- munal ownership. There is no private land tenure there. The land belongs to the village, the community, collectively. This communal ownership seems to have rather accelerated than prevented the deforestation of the country .and its return to desert. b This Russian lesson should not be lost on California.. The charms of our climate and scenery and the fertility of our soil depend upon the perma- nence of the forests of the Sierra Nevadas. The last Legislature failed to make any provision looking to the protection of these forests or to provide for the obtaining of knowledge in the matter of storing the torréntial waters which run to waste in floods. To supply this lack of legislative in- terest the “Waters and Forests Soclety” has appointed Professor Davidson as Irrigation Commissioner, to mass the information as to reservoirs and the distribution of water stored in them, and has also appointed as a Forestry Commission Professor Hilgard of Berkeley, Professor Dudley of Stanford, ‘Warren Olney Esq., Hon. Abbott Kinney and George Towle. These two commissions will co-operate, respectively, with the hydrographic division of the Geological Survey at Washington and with the forestry division of the Agricultural Department. They will proceed exactly as though the Legisla- ture had authorized the Governor to commission them, and will report to - the next Legislature the action necessary for the preservation of our forests and the conservation of water. This is an imperatively needed undertaking and the Waters and Forests Society should have the liberal support of the public in carrying it out. p In sheep pastures the dandelion, parsley, yarrow, buttercup, worm- wood, narrow leaved plantain and fescue are all useful food, and some of them necessary to keep sheep in health, though most of them are regarded as weeds. The Maryland Agricultural College announces by authority that every bud in that State is destroyed by frost. ' ‘Wholesome food is necessary for a hen if you want wholesome eggs. To the majority of people an egg is an egg, but if a hen is fed on tainted food she will lay a tainted egg. To prove the transmission of the condition of the food to the egg just feed a hen onions for a day or two, and you will zet an onion-flavored egg. ¢ Ain't any reason in bein’ proud, ¢ Too fine to go with the rest of the crowd; i Aln't any reason in bein’ shy, World ain’t waltin’ for you to pass by; Ain't any reason for bein’ a shirk, Clappin’ for somebody else to work; Ain’t any reason for not bein’ glad, Aln’t this life the best you have had? a = Ain’t any reason in bein’ afraid, Something’ll happen—’tain’t all down grade; Ain't anysreason in talkin' fast, The little you've got to say won't last; Ain’t any reason in not lookin’ up, Soon as you've got to the dregs in your cup; Ain’t any reason in not forgivin’, % You must keep on lovin’ to keep on livin’; Ain’t any reason in not bein’ true, Make a beginning and carry it through; Ain’t any reason, or joy or beauty In doin’ anything less than your duty. ~Boston Traveler. STATE NOTES. Major Chase of Cajon three years ago budded over 600 orange trees to navels, and this y@r his crop from them is 500 boxes, which we regard as a quite remarkable return in so short a time. The Visalia Times says that Jasper Harrell is building four silos, each holding 300 tons, to be filled with green alfalfa, corn or other green feed, for use in the dry or wet season for a dairy cow ration. If these silos prove a success he will build ten more next year. Sonoma County has made April 14 arbor day, when the school children will plant trees. The Sonoma County hop crop for this year is estimated at 17,000 bales, as against 14,000 last year. There are 45,000 acres of olive orchards in California in bearing. Eastern peach growers reported last vear a new pest, which they call “little peach.” The tree is not thrifty and when the fruit is about an inch in diameter growth ceases. Young trees recover, but old ones die. The use of wood ashes and stable manure on the soil is recommended. Does any orchardist in California know of this apparently new disease? To the Editor of The Call: There seems to be an idea extant that be- cause we have had some rain. and now have a fairly good outlook for a prosperous season, we must necessarily go ahead and ornament the city. While improvements are always in order, it is also as well to be cautious or we may overdo something. The golden harvest is not yet gathered, neither are the chickens count- ed, for the eggs are not yet laid. Our city is beautiful with good natural advantages, and one of the finest parks in the world. It is in the best location possible, warming or cool- ing the air as the season requires. and purifying it at all times. But there is a great deal to be done vet. For the park is still in its infancy. To run the park downtown into the business and residence district will not only do the park no good, but will ruin many of the best homes in the city. As a residence district there is none better than Oak-street hill. It gets the sun if it shines anywhere. It is protected from the winds: the air is pure and first-hand. The low lying fog is mostly absorbed by the follage of the park. The sewerage is naturally of the best. It is conveni- ent—by car lines to all parts of the city and county. The hill is as high as the dome of the City Hall, wheelmen to go up, hence they always go around. The same for vehicles out for pleasure. People avoid the hill if they expect any pleasure from a drive in the park with a fresh team. And to cut the hill down is out of the question. In a cut made for my house I found serpentine nigger-head bowlders fifteen feet in circumference. impossible to blast or break. They have to be cut out with gads and chisels, more like masses of compressed -cork- screws than any ordinary rock. If any cut is made the expenses must be enormous and a great detriment to property on both sides, for a high bank is always dangerous, besides placing the houses on high inaccessable eminences. This would also necessitate a complete new sewer system for the whole district. Another expense of which this neighborhood has had unpleasant experiences in the notorious Fell street sewer. Now who is going to derive any benefit from all this destruction of useful property? I will tell'you. First—Real estate dealers and others who have lots for sale at increased rates, particularly property holders in the vicinity of Oak, Van Ness. Mar- ket and Eleventh streets, and those who are fortunate with a pull and get their property rated at a large increase over its true value, as some have already done. Second—Contractors and builders and their followers. Third—Those who will have the handling of the Phebe Hearst donation for beautifying the city. Fourth—Those who can afford to drive out for pleasure, and less than half a dozen drives out that way will settle it for them. Fifth—A few who live along the line will have a pleasant nearby pri- vate garden to walk In, less than 1 per cent of the people. And what about the 99 per cent who have the burden of taxes to pay. Now, according to careful estimates by competent men the cost will not be less than $9,000,000 and take ten years to complete it, and many of us whose property has been rated at about half what it has cost us. nmust have the bitter cud to chew. We have spent the best part of our lives making comfortable and permanent homes for our families. To tear up and move and re-establish as we now are will entail no end of worry, trouble, expense, wear, tear, time and breakage. 4 ‘Why do this thing when there is such crying need for better school facilities, larger and more sewers and paved streets and cheaper lights? Stralghten the crooked and open the blind streets and avenues. Make a park around that magnificent ruin known as the New City Hall. Extend Market street to the sea. Make it a boulevard, bringing the whole county into the city. It would cost less than the Panhandle. Stop again and think. What if some property owners seriously object to losing their homes. What “law’s delays” and great expense and trouble for both sides. Weigh well these and numerous ideas that must come up before the park can come downtown. There is a park on Hayes and Steiner streets, Alamo Square by name. It is four blocks in size, and scarcely a dozen patronize it a day. Buena Vista Park wants improving, also in the same district. Even with plain clothing. how much better if one is clean inside. but how different even if covered with silks and jewels, if foul filth is below and inside. The same with this =reat city, it needs considerable internal cleaning before it is covered with ornaments. Yours M. H. LOGAN. and too steep for ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. , sive; George H. Sanderson, 1841 and 1892; Levi R. Ellert, 1893 and 1884; Adolph Su- 1896; James D. Phelan, from MAYORS OF SAN FRANCISCO.—S. | (ro, 18% and A. M., City. The follawing is a lisst os 1997 to date. those who have held the office of Mayor | in San Francisco: Prior to the tonsolida- tion act—John W. Geary, elected May, 1850; C. J. Brenham, May, 181, S. R. DAVID J. HILL—J. 8. Jr., City. | caused him to be asphyxiat PANHANDLE SCHEME. | Edmund Leruth, a carpenter, whose Dr. | David Jayne Hi!l, Assistant United States | Secretary of State, was born in Plain« AROUND THE ¢ CORRIDORS Sherift T. M. Brown and Deputy J. Me- Gareghan of Bureka are at the Russ. f James Topley, & prominent drug'mst‘ of Vallejo, is at the Grand in company with Tn 1 of Lead- L. A. Reynolds, a mining man ville, Colo., is registered at the Russ with his' family. _ Don H. Porter, proprietor of the Ken- yon Hotel at Salt Lake City, Utah, is a guest at the Palace. i Mrs. J. H. Raymond and the Misses E. J. and Thelma Parker, ladies prominent in Honolulu society, are guests at the Occidental. 5 John A. Gill, Pacific Coast freight agent of the New York Central lines, will IP.'L\\: for Puget Sound Saturday in the Interes| of his roads. Colcpel E. T. Blackmer, grand secretary. of the Grand Lodge of the Masonic order in California, is registered at the Califor- nia from San Diego. H. H. Tompkins, a banker of Denver, Colo., and C. H. Rathbone, manager 0f the Rio Grande Hotel at Seattle, are among the arrivals at the Palace. Charles/Maze Jr., a merchant 9! Mo- desto, and Loul® L. Janes, who is con- nected with the Mill Valley and Mount Tamalpais Railroad, are located at the Lick. D. Lynch Pringle, former United States Consul General at Constantinople m}d re- cently United States Consul at Guate- mala, is at the California on his way to New York. G. W. Crystal, a Vacaville orchardist, George K. Rider, a merchant of Sacra- mento, and E. C. Smith, a real estats dealer of Pacific Grove, are registered at. the Grand. . M. Pellet, Mini: Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary of France to Guate- mala, is a guest at the Palace. He is on a leave of absence and will visit Paris in company with Ulrich Odin. Bernard Stahl, head of one of the larg- est clear Havana cigar factories in New York, who has ween a guest at the Palace for the past two months, left for his | home on last evening’s overland. During ity vho has his stay In this city Mr. Stahl, W combiped business with pleasure, -has | been extensively entertained by Mr. an | Mrs. Blaskower. He is largely interested ertl ya Bay in rich mining properties at Latuya ¥, Alaska, and may conclude to locate in this city permanently. —_——e————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, April 13.—H. Martin and wife of San Francisco are at the Hoffman. — e——— DRUGGIST GATES’ DEMISE. Coroner Hill Declines to Approve the Verdict of Accidental Death. An inquest was held yesterday on the body of A. L. Gates, the druggist for the Folsom Penitentiary, who was found dead in the Lick House last Wednesday mdrn- ing. Miss Ida Kleinhaus, the flancee of the deceased, testified that Gates visited her at her home last Tuesday night and was in excellent spirits. He arranged with her to call at her home the next morning and take her on a trip to Sac- ramento. Not appearing -at the appointed hour she went to the Lick House to in- quire for him and was there informed that he was dead. A peculiar fact in connection with the death of Gates is that he held two poli- cles of Insurance, each for $5000 a life policy payable to his sister. Al- ice Gates of San Rafael, and the other an accident policy, payable to Ida Kleinhau The jury returned a verdict to the ef- fect that the death of Gates an accident in _turning off the & Coroner Hill declined to sign the ver- dict until after he has had an opportun of Investigating the case more ful having been informed yesterday Gates was rather eccentric and flighty at times. The Coroner had no knowledge at the time as to the condition of the gas fixtures fn the room in which Gates was asphyxiated, this being a highly impor- tant point in relation to the 1e as to whether Gates committed suicide or whether his death was accidental. In jus- tice to the insurance companies the Coro- ner will withhold his approval of the ver- dict until a thorough investigation shall have been made. —_———— Suicide*Due to Whisky. The body found floating in the bay last . Monday has been identified as that of resi- dence was on Third street, West Berke- He had been under the care of a physi- clan, being treated for alcoholism, and had been very despondent. A Coroner's j|i1§y yesterday returned a verdict of sui- cide. —_——— Cal. glace frult 50c per I at Townsend’s.® ——— Special Information supplied dafly to business houses and pubiic men by tha Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s),510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, ¢ —_——— Floorwalker—Madam, May I inquire why all this paraphernalia is spread out right in the way of customers? 2 Madam (calmly)—This is my portable table, folding chair, alcohol lamp, lunch basket and sewing bag. I have bought a spool of thread here, and I thought T might as well make myself comfortable and improve my time while waiting for my change.—New York Weekly, —————— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. 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Children deprived of fats and mineral foods have weak bones, flabby flesh and thin watery blood. The milk of nursin mothers, enfeebled by chron- ic diseases, or long contin- or : | fe1d, N.'J., on June 0, 18%0. He was ap-| ued nursin s der of the Double Cross. The manser in which the | 4ition to the number of 1,709,004 Eighty years after-| Our political machinery will not propel a republic | Barris, January, 12; C, J. Brenham, No: | pointed o that position from Rochester, & PrOducm = : % 3 2 = - . ST : vember, 1552; C. K. Garrison, October, N. Y. He I8 oxceedingly well egus has becn handing that article to France and | W2rd She“;f'i:,d 5':22"9‘ square miles of foreign ter- | on’this continent and an empire in Asia, and Uncle | 1853: S. P. Webb, October, 1854 and | ";“e":""fnnlnll& lfleg e e e results. Russia n‘.ul\f, him easily as the grand commander of :‘“onha o ul‘l :le last eighteen YRS her acquisi §nm, while he rejoices in his American children and g'é’é“;i?mlc‘f&..“ifii"_x“n““:’éss’.&?‘safj‘}"u? .‘3:‘5 ‘ isburg, Pa., from 18577 ':L‘erli’.t!"f 3’;.}“’?{, - Scott’s Emulsion is cod- N e e mfir;sh :'e swelled to 9,010,003 square miles, 9t nearly in their expanding capacity for self-government, will | 189 E. W. Burr, as president of the | {*lfl‘"fl ":‘!r "fiar}f’,}:f %1 nndnwas o liver oil artly digested and | g, 'y de) C] niversity, New > TS e a fifth of the surface of the globe. not borrow the juggernaut car of Great Britain to N e, Swiomiag e ‘ York, from that time until npnsumtedet‘:; P ¥ dip functions of Mayor, though not by that title. In 1860 and 1861 H. F. Teschemacher performed the same dutles, but in 1862 and 1863 he was Mayor and ex-officio For the first time since the birth of the American | Bresident of the Board of Supervisors. 5 % 2 > ince then the head of the city govern- republic English and American guns have been fired | ment has been known by the last named Prior to 1880 Russia had been a competitor with ipoon gl holon, Great Britain in the expansion business, having in- creased her territory in eighty years from 1,000,000 to 6,290,327 square miles, but since 1880 she has virtually eld says his defeat in the mayoralty contest in o is due to the Republicans, and if his words are true the Grand OId Party must be credited with one nore service to the country. with the hypophosphites, forms a fat food which acts on the infant through the crush liberty and independence among the Filipinos. T RECITATIONS—L. D. R., City. The poems such as “Dying at Manila,” “Mjs- tah Dewey, Just 80? Dem Philippines™ and others of that character which have ik P Wik, abandoned that method of spreading imperial institu- | at a common foe. The sailors of Uncle Sam and Coon, 1868 to 1867, Inciusiver. .IgeranenkHMl:- 20t heen Tseued In ook tomm. ey bave mother’s milk, gving rich sn't it about time that Bill Bryan and Perry Bel- | tions, having only gained 265,381 square miles. She has | John Bull have fought side by side a savage enemy. C“EDL‘I;d 1m?n%mll?“mm; TR?\%EE:] H]'n,se};!fii D ;"“”y’f"i‘:’ 1 aliber of shewkpa- bl d, A d ‘\ mont let go on letter-writing and get down to the | been succeeded by France and by Germany, which | In that conflict some have died. It may be that death ; James Otis, 1874 and 1875; A. J. Bry- E;r:nenoft the. :::m?-'}dp:’;er?i‘p‘nmm“"y B9, SUORR HCiues jan that makes amenities between the Governors of the respective | have displayed great energy in their new occupation, | may bring to the two great English-speaking nations 1: Maurice C. Blake, 1927 | the appesrance of inE anything that has sound flesh and bones to both. llnt, 1576 to 1879, inclusive; Isaac S. Kal- | ‘ 3 ; € lock, 1880 and the appearance of 3 Garolivas? A but are still far in the distance. %ince 1880 France | a reunited life and a broader fraternity. Ul s Sana. 187 ‘o 3880, natu | 3% oy e wanl By mrgh%:‘mt;’{ ica Legrestatmpeail s T papers. . siva: Edward B. Pond. 1857 to 1890, inclu- a S$COTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New Yorb O