The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 26, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO TALL, WED SDAY, APRIL 26, 1899, JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1865. & EDITCRIAL ROOMS ..21T to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. W. S. LEAKE, Manager. - 5 S DELIVERED BY CARRIERE, 15 CEN' pies, B cents. 1ding Postage: ILY . one year. r LY ¢ months 3.00 DAILY CALL tincl 1.50 DAILY CALL—E 650 1.50 5 1.00 to receive subscriptions. be forw arded when requested. G 1908 Broadway T Room 188, World Building rtising Representative. OAKLAND OFFICE.. NEW YORK OFFICE DAVID ALLEN, Ad: WASKINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE .....Wellington Hotel C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE shscensannes Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—E27 Montgomery street, corner Clay, cpen until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open untl ©:30 c'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin strect, open untll 9:30 o'clock, 1941 Iiisslon street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Marke¥ ctreet, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 cclock. 251§ | Iisslon street. open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 8:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ang Kentucly streats. open until 9 o'cl AMUSEMENTS. Mr. 1 Time.” El Cap'tan.” Wright." Vaudeville every afternoon Specialt! near E Pictures. Evening, April 27. ncert, Saturday Night, Moving ursday ol resort. Amusements every ta Cruz Mountains, Sunday, A S April 30. By m. and 2:30 . Furniture, at IN LIGHTING. Board of Supervisors is concerned, ic Light Company the fire limits. per- But means solve the lighting Ii the Mutual Company construct a 5 d an underground ready operating in part, inside 1l around. That ion goes ahead distributing down a ing corpor: Iderive benefit throughout the city. nies to persist in bringing iness level. v entering the preserve of the ve consolidated with that nopoly concern they Every person familiar with the il- However, one great point has been ervisors have broken down the long rule that competition in electric lighting evented by refusing permission to compet- Judge Seawell’s decision declaring that it e to be permi 1d and inaugurate competition in supply- This is a tremen- g the water out of the San m to our people. eezi ‘lectric Company and reducing ancisco to a business basi: table Gas Company is now furnishing il- 1 quality at $1 per thousand cubic utual Electric Light Company is sup- y at.from 20 to 30 per cent less than R plying electric is being charged by the old concern. pe El ghting Company begins business further re undoubtedly follow. Thus the tions. Sa America dent ypears to be behind almost every other city in the use of elect 1 servisors of a monopoly by a single corporation. It I y DY g eresting commentary on the situation to say ion have been broken, not is an 1es of constric that the li by petitive BRIGADIER GENERAL SMITH. LL Californians will feel something of gratifi- fl cation in the promotion ‘of Colonel Smith of First California to the rank of brigadier The California men in the Philippines have :ch of the severest work of the campaign to do, and have distinguished themselves for steadiness of discipline as well as for daring valor on the field of battle. The promotion of General Smith is of course a recognition of the service of his gallant regiment, and to that extent is an honor for the State. The elevation of the former colonel to the rank of trigade commander makes room, of course, for the advancement of other California officers in the First Regiment, so that a considerable number of our fel- low citizens at the front will come home with higher rank than when they went away. As these promotions constitute one of the very few pleasing features of this dreary war with savages in a -off land, they will be received with the more grati- ation. Whatever may be the differences of opinion concerning the war itself, there will be none to feel other than a just pride in every evidence given of the military efficiency and patriotic valor of our boys at the front. ? The Legislature of Massachusetts intends to revoke an edict under which- Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts colony in 1635. It cannot be possible that the legislators of the New England State think that Roger wants to come back. The dispatches announce that Li Hung Chang is going to get his yellow jacket back. After the hot time he had with the jacket before, it is not altogether certain that Chang wants it back. It is said that Captain Coghlan of the Raleigh talks as he fights, He must be a red-hot fighter, N ith with the monepoly con- | 1s not been the custom of com- | As soon as they have | ot necessary to recount the history of these | | and Producers’ Association a statement of what it is | problem in San Francisco can recall at | expected this country will gain in the Philippincs," When the Inde- | breaking in all direc- | ity, consequent | 1 the maintenance by numerous Boards of Su- gulation under State laws, but by a fierce com- | PHILIPPINE COMPETITION. HE Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association Thas taken alarm about Philippine competition with home industry. Some American mercantile adventurers the inds have addressed a large number of Chambers | of Commerce and other commercial bodies in this | country asking their assistance to secure abolition of tariff on Philippine imports to this country. This is the appearance of the head of the procession of difficulties and complications which will draw its length along many years, as -one of the collateral curses let loose upon us by the imperial policy. The use of cheap and servile labor in the islands and the admission of its products to compete with white and free labor in ‘the United States means but one - thing, and that is the retirement of white labor from the competition altogether, or and degradation to the level of in | lits decline the servile laborer. can laborer, and to hold their people down by armed force while they are exploite® and their labor brought pays for holding | | | | |'into competition with that which them in involuntary servitude. The wants of tropical people are few and are - not capable of increase. Nature imposes no necessities upon them. Her bounty is sufficient for their suste- nance.. Our exports to the Philippines will be prin- cipally liquors, and not necessaries of life. If cheap labor can be forced there and its products admitted to competition here the effects will fall harmfully where they can least be borge. The farmers of this country profitable diversion of their crops. They have found it in the production of sugar and tobacco. These ar- | ticles differ from other farm’ crops by affording exten- sive and well paid employment to labor in their trans- | mutation for the market. In other ways and other articles ruinotis com- petition will-appear. But suppose we do not break down the tariff and admit Philippine products, but we go to all the heavy public expense necessary - to force labor there in a production that wiil go into the markets of the world, what benefit will come to the American taxpayer who pays the cost? While he will not be struck at home by competition that drives him out of the field, hé¢ will soon discover that he is being taxed to support a competitor who meets and undersells him in the markets of the world! Whether the door be open ar closed in the Philip- pines, the American taxpayer thust pay for keeping it epen or for holding it shut, and his money goes prac- tically to subsidize and pay a bounty to his competi- | tor. England, originally seated 'on the storm-swept seek anxiously for s duty to the public in grant- | British isles, with her variety of production limited | | “ by -her climate, had some excuse for an expansion { which gave her command of production in every zone. 3ut we have no such excuse. Our domain covers the planet from Key West to Point Barrow, from north latitude 22 to 75. We produce tropical, semi- tropical, temperate zone and polar articles of mer- chandise, and out of the vast variety and capacity that | we already possess can supply and the world. No wonder the manufacturers and producers of California are early in evidence protesting against g an army and navy into the East Indian | ourselves | sendi | tition with us in a field whete white labor cannot live. Brother Jonathan and his continent were able and | ready to master the trade of the world and bring its | profits home for the benefit of white men and white | labor in a climate friendly to them. We would be glad to have from the Manufacturers’ | with door open or shut, that it cannot gain at home | with less cost to the American taxpayer. If the commerce of the East has needed protection |-against cheap labor in Europe, the commerce of the ies to erect poles. This has been effected | West has surely an equal right to protection against | | the cheaper labor of Asia. Asiatic labor takes on no utional to stifle competition in that way. | new characteristics by ‘being performed under our | ed outside of the fire ‘ flag and our guns, scourged to its task by the greed | ground system is to be enforced | of the English and German proprietors who own all | 5, any company or person may | the production of the Philippines that is not in the | | proprietorship of the church orders. It is servile and | involuntary labor still. | THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI CONGRESS. | N official call for the assembling of the tenth l/L\ session- of the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress at Wichita has just been issued. The object of the Congress, as is well known, is to pro- mote the business interests of all the States and Ter- | ritories lying. west of the Mississippi, and it is ex- pected there will be a large attendance. While the d | of common interest to the section represented at the | congress, they will have, nevertheless, a very wide scope. Among the questions to be considered are the irrigation of arid regions, the improvement of Western rivers, Nicaragua canal, Pacific Coast har- bors, the Gulf outlet, transportation facilities, Pacific Ocean trade, mining, Western agriculture, national quarantine and statehood for the Territories. In addition to the strictly Western subjects there are to be -discussions on current topics of interest to the nation as a whole. Among these are the Monroe Joctrine, trusts and combines, our foreign pos- | sessions, the election of United States Senators, and representation at the Paris Exposition. and at the Louisiana purchase exhibition at St. Louis. directing public attention to important Western is- sues, and are helpful in promoting our interests, It is to be hoped, therefore, that California will be strongly represented at the Wichita meeting. | WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. HILE to Italy, through the inventor Marconi, Wis due the credit of the introduction of a prac- tical system of wireless telegraphy, and while Great Britain has the honor of having first made an extensive use of it, there is a strong probability the United States will be first to take it up on a compre- hensive scale and develop it into widespread utility. While the British Government aiter the success. at- tained in the recent tests of the system has seemingly halted in the work, a number of experiments have been undertaken by private parties in this country with a"degree of enthusiasm which gives promise of persistent enterprise in pushing the new invention into use for every purpose it can be made to serve. In an interview with the London Chronicle Mar- coni stated that his invention virtually amounts to two systems of telegraphing without wires. By one of these systems, that which was tested in Great Britain, the electric current is diffused through the atmosphere generally. By that method messages sent from an altitude of about 200 feet were transmitted for something like twenty. miless That system, how- ever, is open to the objection that as thie current travels in every direction, messages sent from any point could be taken by a receiving instrument placed tropics to force cheap and servile labor into compe- | ussions are to be confined to subjects | The discussions of the congress have the effect of | wbalance and found wanting.” | { anywhere within the radius of the current. It would, 1_thcr‘eiore, be easy for messages to be stolert either by an enemy in war or by other persons. By the second system Marconi has the electric cur- rent transmitted not directly, but from what he calls | a reflector. The reflector transmits no electric rays except those which fall upon it at a certain angle, and therefore its current instead of being diffused through | the air proceeds in a straight line to the point de- | sired. The reflected current, however, is much weak- : er than the direct, and up to this time the inventor { has not been able to send messages by that system for a greater distance than two miles. { The experiments made in the United States have as yet added nothing of note to the Marconi systems. | The vigor with which they are being prosecuted is, | however, an assurance that it will not be Jong before } American mechanical ingenuity will devise some } means of making wireless telegraphy of practical use | in the daily affairs of life. We are the most skillful The proposition is to garrison | inventors of mechanical appliances in the world, and | and govern these islands at the expense of the Ameri- | now that science has revealed to us a new method of using electrical energy, we may be sure our enterprise will not rest until we have made that method service- able to the community and profitable to the pro- moters. POISON BY POST. NTIL a short time ago the commission of murder by poisoned candy or other article of food sent through the mails was almost un- known to our criminal records. Then came the | Botkin case, which developed into one of the sensa- tions of the time, and since then other cases have fcllowed one another with a startling rapidity. | Within a time comparatively short we have had reports of such cases in New York City, in Brooklyn, | in St. Louis, and now other cases are reported in this | State. Nor is the crime confined to America. ' The London police are now engaged in trying fo trace the author of a similar crime there, the victims in that case being two women who -were poisoned by a cake sent to one of them through the parcels post. The effect of suggestion upon minds already in- | clined in the direction to which the suggestion tends | is well known to all students of psychology. In fact, ic has been well known ever since man first began to study his fellow man and consider how he could in- fluerice his action. It is only recently, however, we have begun to note that the criminal mind is more subject to the subtle influences of suggestion than the | normal mind, and that the commission of a sensa- tional murder in any locality is very sure to lead to | similar offenses wherever the story of the original | crime is told and talked of. | It is not reasonable to hold that in all cases of | this kind the first crime is the cause of those that follow. Persons who are prompted by suggestion | into committing murder would in most instances have committed it without the suggestion, though not in | that particular way. Such crimes as that of poison | by post, however, may, by reason of the easy way in which it can be done, be the direct cause of murders that would not otherwise have occurred. Persons who would be afraid to try a bolder murder might be tempted to send poisoned food through the mails. The suggestion appeals to cowardice as well as to malignity. Some of the poisonings which have followed the Botkin case seem to have been the result of insanity | as much as anything else, and were probably com- j mitted by persons of weak minds with criminal ten- dencies, but without any especial malice toward the victim. The London crime is an instance of that kind, and is one whose mystery may never be solved. The poisoned cake in that case was sent to an inmate of an asylum for imbeciles. She had been there for some time and could not possibly have made | an enemy in the world. Her parents are poor, but | as she was taken care of by the Government and was not in any way a charge upon them they could have no reason in the world for desiring to get rid of her. Moreover, at the Coroner's inquest it was brought out that the mother and the other immediate rela- tives of the victim could neither read nor write, and none of them had ever sent her anything for more than a year. She was, in fact, out of their lives, and in their hard struggle with poverty they thought lit- tle about her. Here, then, seems to be a murder caused wholly by suggestion. Some half insane person of criminal ten- dencies has been led to poison a poor imbecile without having the slightest malice against her. It is a species of “Jack the Ripper” criminal employing cunning instead of brutality, and committing murder through sheer fiendishness. | Dr. Thomas W. Huntington, recently a surgeon in the service of the Southern Pacific Company, informed his associates in the State Medical Society a few days ago that he had amputated the legs of three men with great success. As Dr. Huntington seems inclined to swell with pride at his achievement, he should look at the record of San Francisco elec- tric cars. In the matter of.the amputation of arms as well as legs they are an unparalleled success. Governor Gage has issued a new edict. He says he will not again submit himself to an interview, but will dictate what he "has to say to a stenographer. While the people of California are concerned less in what Governor Gage says than in what he does, it is sincerely to be hoped that he will succeed in finding a stenographer who wil] be able to translate his Ex- cellency’s remarks into English, fortified with an affi- davit of truthfulness. And now one of the powerful political organs of Austria-declares that America is no good. Judging from the way that Uncle ‘Sam has been acting lately, it would be a wise policy for Austria to mind her own business and not disturb herself with affairs which do not concern her. When Governor Gage went to a secret conference with William F. Herrin at the Palace Hotel he prob- ably said to himself that he might as well be killed for a sheep as a lamb. | A veracious correspondent declares that the Span- iards are leaving Cuba. Nobody supposed for a mo- ment that they were going to take it with them. —_— Bryan is in evidence enough, all the world knows, but it would be necessary to send out a searching party to find what has become of Sewall and Watson. * Collis P. Huntington's repeated assertion that he is not here for his health is more than borne out by his frequent recent acceptances of dinner invitations. C. P. Huntington has bought another railroad in Téxas. There is a growing suspicion that the old gentleman wants to own the earth. It is high time for the beef commitree to close its ‘labors. The investigation is becoming more sicken- ing than the beef ever was. Governor Gage may find that when his administra- tion speaks for itself it will say, “Weighed in the GAS CONSUMERS WILL BENEFT BY NEW RATES $1.10 Held to Be the Legal Charge. CORPORATION MAY HAVE TO RESORT TO THE COURTS. Gas Question Is in Such a Tangle the Supervisors Do Not Know What . Move to Make.- According to legal advise taken by some members of the Board of Super- visors on the widely discussed ouestion Of gas rates, the legal figure which the San Francisco Gas and Electric Com- pany may charge consumers is $1 10 per thousand cubic feet. This supersedes the rate of §1 75 which has been charged for years. The minority members of the board believe that unless further action s taken the company must render its bills at the reduced rate. It was given out that a resolution would be presented at the meeting of the Bpard on Monday fixing a rate of $1 50. For some reason this measure fell by the wayside, the member charged with its introduction failing to bring it out. It is understood the majority members of the board will sugputt a resolution fixing the rate at that figure. If they found it impossible to pass it they might finally compromise on $1 35, the rate for which the minority is holding out. The consen- Sus of opinion' among the members is in law. his Honor, the Mayor, in this matter, gether tairly dealt with. They would like to test the contention of Mayor Phelan that the rate is irrevoc- ably fixed for one year at $110, but do matter to an issue. When the members are satisfied that Mayor Phelan’s doc- trine will not stand in law they will, ac- cording to their present ideas, name $1 50 as the legal rate to be charged. Some members aof the board that the gas comp: matter at once. friendly have cia 2l any officials test the They could arrange a suit with some consumer and the questioned passed upon judis company loses heavily owing to the controversy, no matter what action may be taken, If the rate of $1 60, which | the company offered to make, be adopted its annual receipts will be reduced Sl duction ‘will be $270,000, while if the re- duction of 40 per cent, ‘already acted up- | by the Supervisors, holds good a saving to cons 5 it 000 imers of §5! a year. According to the figures mitted by President Crockett, this would almost wipe out the profits of the com- pany. The small householders and small storekeepers will profit by all this slash- ing of rates, as they are in the majority and bear the major lmninn of the bur- den for the illuminating fluid. The officials for the gas company pro- »ss_to believe the rate has not been at §1 10, but that the old rate still obtains and is in force. Their attorne are apparently willing to stake their rep- utations as men skilled in_the way of tne law that no action of the Supervisors has resulted in fixing a rate which the gas company must charge for its product “The rate for gas is not $1 10,” said At- torney Thomas B, Bishop, chief of coun- sel for the company, yvesterday. “What action the directors will take in the mat- ter of this month’s bills I do not know, as the matter has not as yet been dis- cussed. We are not concerned about the rate and have given no thought to test- ing the action. We simply hold that no rate has been fixed and that the old rate is_still in force.” From the commencement of proceed- .ings in the gas matter the attorneys for the company have claimed that the board had no legal right to fix rates, hence “all its work has béen wasted.” OPPOSED TO CIVIL SERVICE Editor The Call: In view of the fact that The Call is the acknowledged organ of the people, and speaks for all without regard to its policy on any of the great questions of the day, and willing to give a respectful hearing to all, we most re- spectfully beg leave to request that The Call give publicity to the following com- munication in reply to an article in the Examiner which it has refused to pub- lish: The Examiner contains an article in its issue of April 18, 1869, under the caption of “Under Civil Service Rules—Efforts of the e Meet With Small Success,” which con- tains these sentences: ‘“That was the meaning of that strange political freak calling itself the Anti-Civil Service League, and by other people called the associated office-seekers. Apparently the antis have fallen by the wayside, and their brief activity has borne little fruit.” ‘We desire to correct these misstate- ments, and believing the Examiner would not knowingly give publicity to mis- statements without affording opportunity for refutation, the league assures the public that. it Is not composed of the as- sociated office-seekers. or office-holders either in the mint or elsewhere. We have not fallen by the wayside, nor has our brief activity borne iittle fruit. On the contrary our activity is undisturbed and givln% great concern to certain interests, notably the associated office-holders and life-service element holding fat jobs under order in the United States Mint and every Federal office in the State. Abuse, vitu- eration and Dgprobrium cannot cause the eague to fall by the wayside or falter in its efforts. We have held many meetings and are publishing and distributing _a large amount of printed matter, as well as keeping up a constant correspondence with the leagues throughout the Union, and have in Washington a personal rep- resentative, who is giving every attention to the work mapped out. If the so-called eivil service law was founded on princi- F!es of justice the old veterans removed by Daggett, Democratic Mint Superin- tendent, would be reinstated. No; their jobs are held down by their Democratic successors because they were Repub- licans. We have taken up the matter and shortly will take the matter before the lhighest court of the United States in an effort to have justice done or unmask the hypocrisy of the so-called civil service law. The entire article is misleading, as the alleged civil “service order claimed to be romulgated by Gage, Roberts and the jvil Service Commission has no practical effect. The Mint has been operating un- der the same rule ever since Cleveland’s order of May 6, 1896, and it is asserted by ‘those who Seem to know that the em- ployes contribute to the funds of the asso- ciated office-holders’ league to foster the ‘present condition of life service. AT The. Call will greatly favor the league and its members by opening.its columns to the foregoing reply to the article to which they take exceptions. The Anti-Civil Service State League, by E. M. GALVIN, President. GUNST AND UNION LABOR To the Editor: In the issue of the Ex- aminer of April 4, we nouce an article about M. A. Gunst's anticipated trip, in which it {s stated that he intends to buy tobacco plantations in Cuba, in order to obtain the raw material for cigar manu- facturing purposes only. His mission is to complete the detalls of a gigantic deal, which, when affected, will place the firm of M. A. Gunst & Co. at the head of onq SOME AUTHORITIES DIFFER| hereafter | that $110 is too low and would not stand | They make bold to differ with | claiming the company has not been aito- | not know what steps to take to bring the | are advocating | If $1 50 is determined upon the re- ub- | Amalgamated Society of the Office-seekers | Grover Cleveland's so-called eivil service | of the largest tobacco syndicates in the United States. r. Gunst is_also reported as saying: “We will open leading retall cigar stores in the cities of San Francisco, Chicagy, St. Louis, New York and Boston.” We are positive of his failure in Bos. ton, as_that is strictly a home industrial city. Now of what benefit wiu this great enterprise be to San Francisco or the State of California? As Mr. Gunst is one of our most prominent business men and a city official, we would like to ask him a few questions. Why will he not start one of his factories in San Francisco to manufacture cigars for home consump- | tion? He states that he is.purchasing to- bacco plantations in Cuba. Can It be that he fears that the tobacco would spoil on its transit to San Francisco? . We can positively assure him_that tobacco im- proves with age. 1Is it possible that he thinks we have not the skilled mechanics here to make the cigars? The International Cigar-makers’ Union branch, is ‘composed of the best: skilled mechanics in the trade. In 1886 it paid the railroad fares of 800 first-class Eastern clgar-makers to San Francisco, and would have furnished the means of transporta- tion for more had they been needed here. We therefore claim that Mr. Gunst favors other localities for the reason that he can day and night for a bare livelibood. W can assure Mr. Gunst that If he contem plates the employment of free American labor in the cities in which he proposes to establish his factories we can serve him equally as well at home in the manu- facturing of these cigars. We would fur- ther ask him if California is not the best adapted locality in the United States for clgar-making, on account of its climatic advantages. ~ The . Cigar-makers’ Inter- national Union stands ready to deposit a reasonable sum of money in any bank designated by Mr. Gunst to secure him furnish him with as skilled mechanics in San. Francisco as he can find in either | New York or Key West. We cordially | invite Mr. Gunst's reply to these ques | tions Inside of a reasonable time. Re; spectfully, J. WOLF, President, PHIL DAVIS, Secretary, Press Committee Cigar-makers' Union 228 of San Francisco. AROUND THE CORRIDORS Charles E. Lyon, a merchant of Napa, is at the Russ. Ralph Russell of Santa Barbara is in | this city for a brief stay. H. I. Moak, a ranch superintendent of Chico, is registered at the Ri Judge A. L. Frazer and wife of Port- | land, Or., are guests at the Grand. G. M. Douglass, a mine owner of Vir- ginia City, Nev., s a guest at the Lick. W. W. Leeper, a business man of New York, is a late arrival at the Occidental. Joseph G. Enright, proprietor of the St. James Hotel at San Jose, is at the Lick | accompanied by his wife. E. L. Boardman, editor and proprietor of the Billings (Mont.) Gazette, is at the Grand with his wife. Dwight Hollister, a fruit grower of Courtland, is making the Grand his head- | quarters during a brief visit to the city. Frank H. Daly, a deputy United States York, arrived here yes istered at the Grand. He landed Chinaman in his .om he will turn over to the coga for deportation. | | dent of the Rio Grande W | is visiting this State for pl. registered at the Palace. He is accompa- nied by Edward M. Shepherd, general counselof the road. They intend to sue the before they return to ern Railway, | southepn country | New | geles in a few days. | — e NEW YORK, April 2.—F. R. Hutchin- son of San Francisco is at the Normandle. —_— e e———— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. EWEY DAY—Subscriber, Santa Ma- San Jose; and M. D., ty. (May 1) nas been proclaimed LD, ria; A. M. Dewey day by H. T. Gage, Governor of California, as | a legal holiday, and on that day the | banks will be closed. | PHILIPPINES—H., City. There has | never been a census of the population of | the Philippine Islands and for that rea- | son it is impossible t0 give the figures | All that there is on that point are est mates varying from 7,500,000 to 10.000.000. 1t is generally believed that 8,000,000 is |-about correct. | ROAD AND ;6;‘;T’I‘KX—G S. E, El Dorado, Cal. There is no law of Califor- who holds an honorahle discharge from the United States” from ving road or poll tax. The only exemption are those who are under 21 years and over 60 years of age. Lead pencils are | PENCILS—A. F., City manufactured in France, Bavaria, Aus tria and the United States. Such are | manufactured in Jersey City, New York, | Fort Scott, Kans., and Providence, R. I. | Other kinds of pencils are manufactured ! in Cleveland, O.; Fort Wayne, | Northampton, Mass. clls are: Lead, automatic, business, car- on, copying, crayon, draughtsman’s, drawing and indelible. MAJOR AND SERGEANT-OId Soldier, Santa Monica, Cal. It was Major Lewis Smith of the ordnance branch of the ser- vice, U. 8. A.,, who on the last day of June, 1897, married Miss Agnes Ruth Lange, the daughter of Sergeant Lange of the Third artillery, in San Francisco. The two men were at one time privates in the same command and a great friend- ship sprang up between them. They sep- arated. Smith rose from the ranks until he was commissioned major. Lange nev- er rose above sergeant, but in the mean- time he married, and after many years of separation Major Smith came and claimed Miss Lange as his bride. They were married and have lived happily to- gether since. INK STAINS—Subscriber, City. said that oxymuriatic acid removes per- fectly stains of ink from paper. Nearly all acids will remove spots of ink from paper, but it is important to use oniy such as do not attack its texture. Spirits of salt (murlatic acid), diluted in five or six times the quantity of water, may be appli ed with success upon the spot a minute or two after washing it with clean water. ‘A solution of oxalic acid, citric acid and tartaric acid is attended with the least risk ays one who declares he has used it, ‘‘and may be applied to paper and printed plates without fear of damage, These acids, taking out writing ink and not touching.the printing, can be used for restoring books where the margins have been written upon, with- out attacking the text.” There are sev- eral preparations for the purpose to be obtained from:-.stationers. ————— Wants Damages for a Beating. Fay J. Barnes began suit jn the Jus- tices” Court, through her attorney, J. N. E. Wilson, to recover §25) damages which she claims to have sustained at the hands of her brother-intlaw, Charles H. Rogers, on February 6 of this year. In her com- Rlalnt she alleges that Rogers struck er and knocked her down and inflicted Injuries that caused her mueh bodily and mental agony and necessitated the ser- Vvices of a physician for several weeks. The day following the occurrence of the events which foim the basis of the com- plaint Rogers was arrested at the in- stance of Miss Barnes on a charge of bat- tery. The case was heard in the Police Court and Rogers, was fined $50. —_———————— New Trial Denied. The application of the Government for a new trial of the case of the United States vs. David W. Jones was denied yesterday by United States District Judge de Haven. "Jones had been sued by tfie Government for damages for cutting tim- ber on public land in Siskiyou County and had received a verdict in his favor, on the unds of error in the survey and on the plea of the defendant that he -}w;,lllaeved that the timber was on his own | | | | | | Yesterday’s Insolvents. Petitions in_insolvency were filed yes- terday in the United States District Court by Albert L. Bryden and Franklin P, Bryden, ranchers in Yuba County. Albert owes and Franklin $3244, available assets. - x Rl s s L of America, of which our local union is a | there obtain tenement-house cheap labor, | .| where father, mother and children slaye against pecuniary loss should it fail to | George Foster Peabody, first vice presi- | ork, and will leave for Los An-| | | CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. It is| | | | Hall of Justice for occupancy FINISHING HALL OF JUSTICE MAY NOW BE DELAY Lowest Bidder Wants to Withdraw. / BIG DIFFERENCE IN PRICES PROTEST OF THE FIRM CONSID- ERED TRIVIAL. George H. Fuller Desk Company In- timates Its Intention to Decline to Go on With the Work. If the Board of Supervi the action taken yesterday by the Com- mittee on Public Buildings, and if no trouble is made by the contractors, the work of furnishing and completing the ill be be- ors approves | gun at once and pushed to an early com- nia that exempts ‘“‘a discharged soldier | ¥ pletion. However desir able such a result might | be the immediate prospect of its attain- ment is small on account of the apparent reluctance of the firm to which the prin- cipal contract is to be awarded to fulfill its obligations. The bids for furnishing the Hall of Justice ¥ presented to the Board of Su sors on April 17 and were to have been opened on that date. This formality w: however, delayed un- til last Mond when the bids were opened and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings. In the meantime one of the bidders, the George H. Fuller Desk Company, filed a written protest and asked for the withdrawal of their bid on the ground that a member of the board had declared that he W of the belief that there was to be a “rake-off” and that he would defeat the proposition of letting the contracts. The protest was considered trivial and was not allowed. When the bids were opened it trans- ired that the bid of the George H. Fuller Yesk Company for supplying furniture, photographic appliances and Kitchen fur- niture was $6014 lower than the next high- est bid for the same work. A representa- tive of the company appeared before the Committee on Publ Buildings yesterday and declared that his firm did not want the contract and renewed the protest pre- viously made to the board. He even in- timated that if the board insisted on awarding the contract to the firm as the lowest bidder the matter would be taken into the courts. The implied threat had no effect and the committee voted to recommend that the contract be awarded to the reluctant firm. The amount of the bid is $45.486, and there is in the hands of the clerk of the Board of Supervisors a certified check for $5000 from the firm to insure its' per- formance of the contract. The other con- tracts for pro\‘h‘lins’ furnishings for the e building were awarded to the lowest bid- For gas and. electric fixtures, San Fran- ders as follows: cisco Novelty and Plating Works, $16,850; water filter system, California Artistic Wire Company, $2430; electrical switchbos and ' telephone system, Webro-Hendy Company, $3235; Unting’and decorating, J. Smith™ & Sons, 500, . In the matter of the bids for doing the plumbing work in the new police station building_at Seventeenth and Mission streets the committee agreed to allow John J. McGovan to withdraw his bid upon a showing that he had made a mis- take in his figures and had asked leavi to withdraw the bid within the statutory time. The contract let to thc next | lowest bidders, Allen & Looney, for $5675. McGowan's bid $3000. Portraits of Postmasters. Employes of the main Postoffice on Washington street have subscribed to a fund to procure portraits of all the San Francisco Postmasters from the year 1549 up to the present date and hang them on the walls of Postmaster Montague's office. Portraits in India ink of the following. named Postmasters have been obtained and have been hung in the _sanctum: ank McCoppin, N. B. Stone, William J. Bryan, S. W. Backus, W. W. Montague and Holland Smith. They have already imparted a cheerful air to the office. N ———a Stole a Horse and Buggy. John Corbett, an ex-convict, was booked 3 ; at the City Prison yesterday by Deteéctives | Dinan, Revnold Ind., and | The kinds of pen- | | | A s on the charge A claimed that he stole a horse and buggy belonging to R. D. Chandler, a coal dealer. e e e e Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.* e Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * — o “Who is your favorite composer?” asked the typewriter boarder. ‘Handel,” said the Cheerful Idiot. “He is so uplifting.”—Indianapolis Journal. —_— e “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty years by milllons of mothers for thelr children while Teething with perfect success. It soot:es the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Collc, reg- ulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. 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