The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 2, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 2 1899. ’ JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. ress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. .Market and Third Sts., S. F- ain 1868 ....2I7 to 22! Stevenson Street | Main 1874 | “ARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. 5 cents. ding DELIVERED BY Postage: one year. ] DAILY CA DAILY CAL DAILY CALL tir DAILY CALL NDAY Free Theater—Vaudeville every atternoon C and Eliis streets, Specialties. 1 Co.. Market street, near Eighth— resort. Amusements every | s ¥ n—Dog Show to-morrow k, Furniture, at | AN IMPREGNABLE ADMIRAL. ion by the Examiner of Admiral Vermont e L but the naval | as the Democratic | ney in 1900 is such colossal | The ibsurd representative of now hopeless imbecility. Jlerated for y , for the callow oi a you riated with his own importance, are indulgently per- | \he t xaminer-Journal or the Journal- I r offered a reward of $50,000 for the discov- | M intly smiled. American citizen- | When it ap- | delegation to supervise and | t com the Governme nission became more nded to send its “Commission- | civil and ruler chuckle. which has vas an international ts “national | the discipline and the inoelligence of our navy in- | victors ordinarily will be alinost unscathed. | will be unknown. | great consequence | tests. { while now | and me; | American schoolboy. On February 6, 1778, at the | tured eighty-four French ships. achievements THE BATTLE OF MANILA BAY. Dewey and the force under his command \\'cre" Y Admiral | appropriately and grandly celebrated. The! TERDAY the of clustered glories with which the valor, the training, | vested the national flag hieve been depicted in glow- | ing eloquence, both in prose and in verse. The practi- | cal aspects of the destructice: of the Spanish squadron | at Manila Bay now deserve i i The lesson of the battle vvas that the ch agements has radically changed. largely determined by the ex naval en Tlence of the materials and the mechanical skill applied to the | sult is construction of with which they are handledd and by ‘the accurate ar vessels, by the scientific precision | armaments that have replaced the | The victory at Manila | was a triumphant expression of American science and | of American trairing, as well as a demonstration of | use of the heav lighter guns of former times. | the superiority of the blended strains of blood de- veloped by our institutions into the composite type of American citizenship. | s triflir tively severe. Our loss w. r. The loss of the enemy was compara It is probable that in the naval | battles of the future this disproportion will be sub- | de- | The | Engage- side or the battles the bloody The ability to | be of almost as ned. Defeated fleets will be stroyed beyond the possibility -of rehabilitation. stantially maint ments will be short and decisive. One Drawn Ships will not unite i t other will be speedily vanquished. hand-to-hand struggles of the pa support enormous expenditures w s the hu crifice of life w factors in naval con- | 1 be insignificant, and ever heroism will find its opportuniti t its rewards, the power of momey will be as it has become in the piping The s: scendant in war as times of peace. The American people and their amcestors have al- | rays possessed maritime genius is historically in a na battle off the harbor English King, Edward III, enchmen, and captured 200 ves- in one of which alone 400 dead bodies were found. Our revolutionary struggle had scarcely be- | gun before the Dolphin, the Lexington and the Re- prisal made two circuits of Ireland and ravaged the coast. The daring and the successes of Captain John Paul Jones in British waters are familiar to every ar orded that, in 1; of Sluys, the ew 30.000 T 0. with his force | of the House of Lords, it was shown that during the 33 British vessels had been destroyed by Ameri- Aiter our independence had been won can privateers. and tior against France within two years and a half we cap- The defeat of L'In- const ally entrenched, in tions our oper: | wise it might be shipped to Europe. It is to be hoped | cotires the common currency of the con W country generally has reached the conclusion that the { ]and and settle in New York may have something to | | a host of people who came to bid him good by, hardly | any one paid any attention to Reed. | like an ex-President rather than a Presidential can- rency will tend to hold it in the country when other- that it will not be long before the East reaches the California standard in this matter and gold coin be- ntry. D —— SPEAKER REED AND THE PUBLIC. HILE Speaker Reed has not thought it worth while cither to confirm or deny the reports that he will not serve in the mext Congress, the correct rumors are nd, what is more, the prevailing opinion seems to be that he is to retire not only from Congress but from politics, and that we are to know him no longer as a statesman and a party leader. In no section of the country is the belief that Reed's public career is closed more clearly asserted than in New England. Nearly all the newspapers of that sec- tion have treated his retirement very much as if it were his death, and their comments on the subject have been in the nature of funereal eulogiums. The fact that Mr. Reed is said to intend to leave New Eng- do with the dolorous New England view of the sub- ject. is doubtless equivalent in their judgment to a departure from the land of the living. Certain incidents attending the ex-Speaker’s de- parture from New York for Europe strengthen the belief that he really intends to abandon his Presi- dential aspirations and give up politics, as the New England papers assert. In the first p the eve of sailing, a reporter told him the public is interested in the rumors about him and would like to now whether the e true or not, Reed replied: “The public may be interested in me, but I have no interest in the public.” In the second place while Croker, who sailed on the same ship, was attended by Such a remo ce when, on He went away didate. In spite of all these evidences that the strong man has abandoned the arena of his life's best work, he may yet return and become a more potent factor in political The whirligig of time zs about many changes, and not infrequently they occur with great rapidit Mr. Reed represents so much of what is best and wisest as well as what is strongest in Republican leadership it is not likely he will be permitted to re aloof from the great struggles that are coming in the near future. It is to be noted, moreover, that many Democrats who once denounced him as “Czar” Reed have not hesitated now to declare that his retirement from politics is a national misfortune. He represents, in fact, the conservative anti-imperial business clement | igher degree than any other states- man, with the possible exception of the President | fairs than ever. ain of the nation in RANCH AND An inquiry was addressed to the question department of this paper about the value of irrigation to prevent injury to orchards and vineyards by frost. The utility of irrigation for that purpose is demonstrated. reason of it lies in the temperature of the water. which is spoken of as ice cold, in hot weather, has a temperature of 60 de- ‘When the air has a temperature of 100 degree: grees colder than the air, a difference at once perceptible in 1ts grateful grees. coldness when used to quench thirst. has falien to 3 than the air. etrated more deeply by the sun’'s r foundly than the ground and is also warmer than the air at the frost if this water, warmer than the air orchard or vinevard, being warmer than the a nd averts frost. The orchards of the British isles cover only 226,05 The navel orange leads all others in the English market, and the Eng- a great future. merchants an Quentin amounts to 41,000,000 bags. h be mdde of flax tow it will be seen that flax will become a leading farm point. Now ture, raises the dew point lish Fruit Grower sa S The jute ba, upply from the jute mill at 'S crop in this State. The Japanese soy bean, used in the German army ration, is grown suc- It is put on land after wheat or oats, in the same $4 60 per acre net. cessfully in Kansas. year, and its value i value in California. Remember that the foundation of good eggs. Ten average eggs wei degrees the water remains at 60 and is 28 degrees warmer Water flowing in streams or impounded in reservoirs is pen- h a pound and they have as much nu RURAL LIFE The The water of springs, s the water is 40 de- But when the temperature of the ai s and therefore warmed more pro- is set flowing through an it raises the local tempera- acres. ‘ho import from Calcutta ‘and If all these can No doubt it would yield a greater good living and of good ecookery is verts to the city in 1902 it will be sold to the highest bidder. By granting the Market-street company at this time per- mission to erect poles and operate an elec- tric road on the street, from Taylor street to Grant avenue, would be equivalent to giving that corporation a vested right in the franchise and would make it practi- cally worthless to any company other than the Market-street monopol As proof of the fact that the scheme on foot is to get control of the Geary-street franchise, as well as other valuable con- cessions asked for, the manner in ch the corporation’s representatives treated a suggestion made by al members of the Board of Supervisois is cited. Tt w: snggested that instead of turning down Geary* street from Taylor, the p 1 road be extended another block on lor street and that it then turn down Post street to Grant avenue. This propo- tion was rejected, n spite of the fact that the corporation is seeking permis- sion to transform the Fost-street cable road into an electric road, and would thus be enabled to save the building of four blocks of electric line on Geary stre It is apparent. therefore, that cor poration considers ihe = oceur of Geary street important in a measu wholly at variance with the unwonted philanthropy that alleged as a motive for building the proposed road. The request of the Market Street R way Company is now in the har the Stre Committee of the B Supervisors and has been referred to the and County Attorney opinion to the effect the granting the request would » on existing frar chis Those who familiar with t 4 by |methods of the corporation declare triment as a pound of porterhouse steak. Good eggs are produced only by | ipon: the ceport of “‘”\ S SGEE Sl de- hens fed on good, pure, untainted food. { pend the question of whether the com- The investigation of the California State Boarl of Trade into irrigation by pumping demonstrates that it will give a creat impetus to small farm- | s will It will also directly ald truck farming, diversification of crops, adornment of rural homes by shade trees and flowe ing, and that small landholde to the increase of the profits and the of Trade should continue to preach the gospel of the pump. A FAIR LITTLE WORLD OF MY OWN. I've a fair little world of my own, e where I enter alone to stray O’er her beautiful way, And list to her musical tone. Al With fancy 0! she shows me such wonderful dreams, And T see such radiant gleams bright, Of all that is And all that is We drift over wandering streams. Over streams with a murmur so sweet No _one can their 1 find not To tell what I' From voices And so oft when with fancy I flee 1 turn to look b The ¢ . To fac A charm from Of ' thoughts that Like halos they fall With grace over all And linger with tenderness bright. Away from the tumult and drone, From throngs in which one is alone, S uplift, And restful tides drift, The shado In that fair little STATE NOTES. Mr. Flynn of Red Bluff propos - Australian salt bush as a forage plant in arid situations. es it will convert land at present waste and so far made of it he beli a word whos rm that of friends ‘Who live not in visions with me. the flashing in sight sed in pumber by its use. and the All these things go ral life, and the Board be increa asures of r ple right; music repeat. ve heard e echoes were fleet. rd, and see he lends with love are alight, world of my own. MARY FRENCH MORTON. to give a comprehensive trial to the From the study | pany will attempt sain its ends by the purchase of votes. AROUND THE CORRIDORS fruit grower of § irand . M. Striening. a, is at the H. Call Los An guest at the Occidental J. M. Peart, a merc is registered at the eles attorney, is nt of College City, Grand. orge Myers, a e t acco dealer of Fresno, is staving at the Lick. F. C. Sanford of at the Occi- dental, accompanied b wire. Dr. and Mr W. C. Grove of Modesto will be at the California for a few C. Innes, who has inter New .»'\lmfl.\icn quicksilver m the Russ, Dr. P. F. Peck, an attorney guests at the Lic Russell of Fresno and James are Merced, Leon Russell, 2 merchant, and Cartin, an attorney, of Portland, are arrivals at the Palace. H. H. Harlow, a Gold Gulch mine owner, and Dr. John Law of Leadville, Colo., are staying at the Grand. Charles H. Earle, a merchant of Provi- dence, R. T t the Grand with wife, and will make a tour of the Sta F. W. Bulloc! a Chicago furniture manufacturer, is making the Palace his headquarters during a brief stay in this city. Amos Burr, traveling passenger nt of the New York Central lines, left last Needles and Los Angeles \ 4 gent by the Constellation and the iruitful’ c =t L : ! o4 raln evening for The there was | sursent by the Constellation 4nd the fruitiul cruise | himself " McKinley's administration has been so suc- | Lreless tnto, yalnable pasture. it A : 5 bubtaess connected with IS rond . R R T e 39 $ A3, Dee Talk of the high price of meat, it is nothing to the price paid in the y ; : ot When it pla-| 9 *! : amso ks S "' cessful in home politics and so victorious in foreign | flush times. The Bee says that at Sutter's Fort there is the picture of a Fred Dodd, proprietor of the Hughes o dian possessions of France, cven in that carly day | affairs that his re-election in 1600 is a foregone con-| Erizzly bear that was killed in the tules near Sacramento In early days. The |Hotel of Fresno; W. Il Hatton, an attor- 1 uld attested o I strength. The victory of Commo- | (juei B 1 L T 66 3 | animal weighed 1400 pounds and the hunter who killed it sold it to a Sac- ney of Modesto, and H. 3reer, a Tur- B 1 G i Rl i clusion, but Reed is not too old a man to be 4is suc- | mento butcher for $1000. The butcher dressed the meat and retailed it |lock merchant, are among the arrivals at T T Lie atten ppro CorSy DALHIC o1 —dsC’ Liae,f WHICH COM_Hicessor, and events may S0 se themselves as to| and it brought him so that he cleared $700 in the transaction. | the Lick. - elled the T bandon Detroit and the whole . : ! : The vine h or is reported to have appeared at Fres Last year th Joseph Huntoon of Sacramento. who is ) st To convert any distinguished | Peiied the ancon roit and the whole | render his return to Republican leadership inevitabl he vine hopper is reported to have appeared at Fresno. Last year the Joseph Hun Sacrs « : Somyen e S et oF <CITtheills the patrionie youdp s Sk, e Tenim (OhReD B P MEVIAbe | yopper did not do much damage and absence of the pest iS now attributed | making his honeymoon trip, is at the Cali \ mocrat, even within his bt 2R S = 1 within a few years at most weather. brid combined influence Asiatic specula- 1e anc propose the capture of a great national hed the highest dignity ong Government, under a Re- y rejected all It is tolerably safe in advar step e of iiral Dewey will prefer his cocked naval standing to the conglomeration of and socialistic demands that constitute the | f the Examiner. had better resume its interrupted | er converting W. J. Bryan to impe- | rialism, AMERICANS IN NICARAGUA. } ECENT reports from Washington are to [1\&‘1 le-n that advices received by our Government | 1 Nicaragua indicate that the situation there It upon our officials, so it is said, that discouraging to American interests. persons high in the Nicaraguan Government are p policy liberately designed to crush an business interests, now of considerable | itude 1 that country. ng. It was but a short | time ago that information was received here of the in ion of a political movement in Nicaragua to bring about t to the | United States. The leaders of the movement \\'crc! President Ze General Estrad ! others of hardly less note and influence. | d that next year a party with annexation | plank in its platform would appeal to | and make a strong campaign in its favor. | Such reports are not surprisi ugur? nnexation of the country said to be Senor Guzman 2 It was add as the the people From these reports it is evident that American in- | terests in Nic and American influence so strong as to be the domi- ragus have now become so important | nant factors in the politics of the people. Of one| party, it alleged, the leaders desire to crush our | interests; of other, leaders desire to | sts paramount even to the surrender | vereignt | acquainted | arges of political parties make our i Nic The tere sufficiently unte rice them at something like th\-ir‘ ood deal o ow: there- | The tion on both sjdes of Hawaii has in all probability | { some Americans in Nicaragua | the example of the Americans in | ibl t some of them may be | le olitics for the express pur- | hout a condition of affairs that will | nt of an annexation sentiment the United States. interests in Nica- ly guarded. The early the interocean | 1 when that route is | ommerce across Nicaragua will be | The advocates of unlimited annexation | therefore have a strong argument on their side, | and they now seem to he getting ready to spring it on the country. It therefore behooves the people to watch the issue well or we may have a Nicaraguan snnexation scheme confronting us before we have de- | i a form of government for Hawaii. B —— guan p stionably great ion of well o1 flow of en the enormous will The action of Lieutenant Conger in commanding that the monkey pets of the soldiers returning on the transport Grant should be thrown into the sea, be- cause he was afraid they might spread smallpox, may be taken as an evidence of the recklessness of life roduced by the war. Is not a loyal monkey ough of a man and a brother to be vaccinated and saved to grow up with the country ? B b e so I'he stars and stripes have been raised over business houses at Bluefields as an ‘emblem of protection as well as of freedom. The war with Spain has demon- strated to some of our foreign friends that Uncle Sam e | was not till 1884 that we comprehended the nec 'THE GOLD PROBLEM \ for example, of our country. The speedy entry of Captain (after- ward Commodore) Sl and the hoisting: of the American flag at that point of Mont at into the bay 37 n July 2, 1846, thwarted British strategy on the P cific. In the Civil War there were repeated exhibi- tions of Amer skill in naval construction and of magn gunne of which the duel between the Kearsarge and the Alabama was a splen- did e We are es none of our capacity fc itir ntially a ma ce lost It e people and ha r supremacy on the sea. But in fourteen ears we were enabled. directly or indirectly, to pro- of the reconstruction of our navy. tect our vast coast line on the Atlantic and the P: cific, and at an inconsiderable sacrifice to pound the at Manila and at Spanish navy into submission Santiago. The battle of Manil date in history. Bay has truly established a IN THE EAST. 161k 5 GRS filled to overflowing and with the great ba Wv.i(h that capitalists, finding ‘no ade- quate supply of investments on earth, stocks inflated with wind, the genera ional tr ury nking centers so "‘glutted mon are buying public of the The | situation is peculiar, and the press of that section is g of a lack of currenc; st is loudly complaini | naturally giving a good deal of attention to it. From all reports it appears there is an abundant supply of currency for all purposes when gold, silver and paper are tiken together, but the Eastern public will not use gold. The treasury officials have found it impossible to get it into circulation. Treasurer Roberts is reported to have said recently: “The ap- peals for paper are becoming absolutely piteous. There is a special demand® from Kansas City and points in the South and West. The treasury is run- ning over with gold, and we could get several mil- lions more gold than we have if we had small notes to exchange for it.” A considerable number of our Eastern exchanges maintain that the objection to the use of gold is due | {o the fact that it is not coined in a way to make it able for retail trade. The Philadelphia Record, says: “Two-thirds of all the gold which has been received at the Government's coining mill since the establish- ment of the mint in 1702 has been coined into $20 pieces, and two-thirds remainder into $10 pieces. * Coins of these denominations are too valu- able for general use in retail transactions. The pro- portion of $5 pieces and $2 50 pieces struck at the | mints is small that if a demand should be created to-morrow for these coins for general use they could not be obtained.” While there 1s unquestionably some force in that argument, it cannot be accepted as conclusive. In saying that if there should be a demand for $5 and | $2 50 gold pieces the supply is so small they could not be obtained for general use, the Record itself seems to concede that there is at present no demand for gold of these denominations any more than for the larger coins. If that be so—if the demand is nctl sufficient to make use of the small gold coins already. minted, it is certainly illogical to conclude that more | of them are required. | The weakness of the position taken by the Record | and so many other Eastern papers is most conclu- sively shown, however, by the fact that California uses gold and silver almost exclusively, and there has never been any complaint here of the manner in | which it is coined. In fact, there would probably be | serious objections to the coinage of $2 50 gold pieces‘ on account of the smallness of the coin and its conse- | quent inconvenience in use. | The Eastern objection to gold seems to be mainlyl the result of habit. Cattle brought up on the prairies, | having never seen corn, can hardly be induced to eat | corn until hali starved. Eastern retailers are unac- | customed to gold coin and are afraid of it. Tt will be ! of advantage to the nation, however, to induce them to use it, even if it takes a little currency starvation to of the con fight when hc_ wants to and the mood suits him, | force them into it. _Ihe general use of gold as cur- | in declamatory terms BOSTONIAN BRYANISM. LL the world knows that Bostonian ideas are 1 that Bryanism gu classical and metaphysical, A it is to be expected that a Bostonian Bry is but a declamatory den therefore anism would ly hat expectation has been realized. ge Fred Williams of Boston has for- ted the principles of B as follows: be a demophys ed classi cal metagoguery expre Gec nism » four dogmas, 1. If monopoly has occupied the avenues of com- munication the peopie can dispossess it. 2. If the land bhas passed into the hands of idlers, who buiid palaces from the pennies of labor, we | can send these idlers to the plow. If industry’s implements are possessed by an oligarchy a de racy can resume possession. 4. If wealth can buy Legislatures, we can legis- late for ourselves. These dogmas come to us without anything in the way of an explanatory chart, diagram or appendix, and the Western mind therefore will have some dift cultz in understanding the problems of life, mind, politics and reform involved in them. while, howeve e an attenipt to penetrate their true inwardness and discern, if pos. sible, the thingness of the vacuity in which they are immersed, for there may be a bug in their mazes. [he first dogma appears to be a Bostonian w ing democracy for all citizens to ma! can take possession of transporta- tion lines if it feels like it, and may be regarded as A declaration in favor of Government ownership of rail- ways. The second is very obscure. It may be an oczult expression in favor of the nationalization of land, or it may be a proposal to establish a sys of compulsory plowing on the part of the Astor boys. The third dogma, maintaining the rights of democ- racy to take up “industry’s implements,” is a stag- gerer. It seems to imply that Democracy might go to work, but such a move within the camp of Bryan- ism is inconceivable, and the solution ot the problem must be left, therefore, to the hazard of a guess. The last of the four is what is known in the West as a “corker,” but doubtless it would be recognized in Boston by some other name. “If wealth can buy legis- latures, we can legislate for ourselves.” Apparently that means that if wealth buys legislation every man shall become a legislator and get his share of the beodle. If it mean not that, then it must have some mysterious reference to an omnibus referendum, popular initiative and imperative mandate. Whatever views may be taken of them, it is clear | these dogmascontainintheir illucid depths the esoteric tenets of Bostonian Bryanism. While to outsiders they may seem but another attempt to “scrut the in- scrutable and poss the impossible,” they are utter- ances of the oracles of the dollar dinner, and beneath | their froth may be deeply fraught with the force of | wate. It is probable they will meet us at Philippi ir 1900, and it behooves us to take note of their ghostly threats. The appointment of the Board of Health by Gov- ernor Gage requires no special criticism. The gen- tlemen chosen may be competent, but the manner of their selection proves the indifference of the execu- | tive to the best interests of the State and of his party. Dr. ‘Barbat, one of the appointees, is the family phy- si of Daniel M. Burns. chief surgeon to. the Market street railway combine. The complete subserviency of Governor Gage to railroad influences is now freshly illustrated, but has been long predicted and virtually confessed. an The Labor Council of this city has a suspicion that Governor Gage is trying to sell it a gold brick in reference to the appointment of a Labor Commis- sioner. When the Labor Council of San Francisco becomes better acamainted with Governor Gage the suspicion will be transiormed into a certainty. United States Senator Perkins has added another reason to the many which entitle him to the kindly consideration of the people of the State. He has made Goyernor Gage his enemy. It is worth | Dr. W. B. Coffey is| to the dry | Last week ripe strawberries were shipped from Florin, Sacramento | County, to Sait Lake C Portland, Or., Seattle and Spokane. The prices | | obtainea vere 36, $4 50, and 33 per crate. It is of record that Florin strawberries have been shipped to Maine and arrived in good order. | The Bee is of opinion that Placer County fruit growers will wear dia- | The monds thi vear. promising. Elwood Cooper. ar spraying his doesn’t spend a cent, | lady bug, loose and they eat the s | The Cutting Packii, 1 put up apricots, string tomatoes ! live trees to but turns the rawberries, Tie: vegetabl of The Oroville Citrus Association started in 1886 with $20,000 paid up capi- in twenty acres of navel oranges. The stockholders have since | paid in $4000 assessments and now have an orchard of sixty acres, all in first crop was shipped in 1891. 1898 netted $8000, or 45 per cent on the original investmient, and 15 per cent Let it be remembered abroad that Oro- orthern California, nearly in the latitude of Chi- The valued at $60,000. ‘I tal and put | navels | on the valuation of $1000 per acr | ville is in Butte County, | cago | | | { by 1 Pringle apricot. A band of 300 sheep were sold at $10 a head. During March J. S. | 80 per cent of the skim milk. 7, and his ties, is appraised at $32 gained in prudent farming. hipment of cherries castle has already begun and the crop of pe: the Santa Barbara olive grower, used to spend $7000 a keep ale and smack their lips for more. Company has built a cannery in Santa Ana and beans, blackberries, vellow free peaches, yellow cling peaches and rasp- It is a good indication to see more attention given to the canning The first full carload of California fruit shipped East this vear went assenger train on the 25th of April Leathers sold to the Knights Landing Creamery 6 pounds of milk from twelve coows, for which he was paid $122 82 and The ranch property of the late John Boggs, in Glenn and Colusa coun- awberries from ) . plums and pears is ve ew- 5 down the black scal Now he Rhizobius Ventralis, an Australian plums, asparagus, peas, The crop of It consisted of cherries and the Anaheim for export to Wyoming, at total estate at $405,037. It was all [y eclees e THE SUSPECTED STRANGLER IS 0N THE RACK —_—-— Chief Lees Probing Straw Bonds. | | | S | Harry Wilson. the colored man | jumped his bonds last Thursday night and | was arrested in Santa Cruz Sunday, was | brought back to the Uity Prison vester- day morning by Detective Bd Gibson. He | was booked on a bench warrant issued by Judge Graham and his bonds were fixed | in $2000. The police will take good that he is not again released on as | Shortly after being hooked Wilson was | taken to Chief Lees’ office and the Chief | had him on the rack for nearly two hours about the means adopted for securing | his release on straw aonds by Attorney . Wilson and Clerk Kelly of - Judge | Graham's court. After the interview was over the Chief declined to say what in- he had received, but said the | matter would be taken before the Grand | | Jury without any delay. He remarked that there was one point he wanted more light upon before he could give out any- | thing for publication. It was ascertained that Wilson had re- mained in hiding in the city till Saturday | night, when he bought a ticket for Santa | | formation | Cruz.’ A careful search fs being made by | | the police for his niding place. as if | found something important might be divulged. Wilson was seer in his cell, but he re- fused to discuss the bond question. He pretended that he was not in_ hiding in this city and had not jumped his bonds, as his attorney had informed him that his | case would not be called till to-morrow He bought a ticket for Santa Crez Satur. | day night as he had business there to look after. He denied making the statement in Santa Cruz that he was intending to =o to Mexico. He will be taken before Judge -Graham this morning on the three charges | of petty larceny against him. ‘he suspicion that Chief Lees wants | Wilson on a_much more serious charge | than petty larceny has been strengthened Dby his rage at Wilson's escape on straw bonds and his vigorous efforts, to recap- ture him. 4 Slashed His Foot. J. Devlin, a carpenter cmployel by Mahoney Bros. in erecting a new bullding at McAllister and Scott streets, was split- ting a plece of wood with an ax yesterday morning, when the ax slipped and struck his right foot, Inflicting a long and ugly wound. He was taken to the Receivin; Hospital, where the wound was stitche Lana dressed. . who | backed up by evidence, that the h: | proached a member of the board with a | pense in order to satisfy them.” WAY ATTEMPT T0 CORRUPT THE SUPERVISORS e Blan " fora S Cork~ screw” Electric Line. S o The attempt that is being made by the | Market Street Rallway Company to se- | cure permission from the Board of Super- visors to construct and operate an elec- tric line along Sixth, Taylor, Geary, Grant avenue and Bush street has reached a condition that bids fair to involve . the board in a scandal of sufficient propor- | tions to throw a strong light on the meth. ods employed by the giant cogporation to | attain its ends. | It is asserted, and the assertion is sion praved for is worth at least the corporation, which would mean, of course, a corresponding loss to the city. It is pointed out by the same authority that the corporation can well afford to and will if necessary, expend $20.000 in purchasing the votes of Supervisors in favor of granting what is asked. If this or any other sum of money is expended In a successful attempt to corrupt the members of the board the result will be that the corporation will be granted gratis the right to erect electric poles along the streets named; will be confirmed i its title to franchises now held to be forfeit- will be granted new franchises free of charge, and will be put in a position to make worthless to the public the valuable Geary-street franchise, which will revert to the city in 1902, As a.means for the acquirement of all these things without cost to, itself the Market Street Railway Company has asked for permission to build a ‘‘cork- screw” electric road to traverse the streets heretofore named. A representa- tive of the corporation recently —ap- so-called explanation of the reasons for asking such extraordinary concessions. “'Our company does not want to build this road,” he said, “‘but we are willing to do so because the down-town business men want it. The Post-street, Kearny, Mission and Market streets lines now han- dle all of the traffic that would be carried by the new road, so you see we will be out Just what it costs us to build and operate the new line. But the business men want it, and we are willing to shoulder the ex- The argument was S0 convincing that | forn: ! ments at the Pleg with his Miss Grace A. Ander. Salt Lake City, Ut C. A. Dayton, who is connected with the Pennsylvania lines at Philadelphia, rived in this eity with his family i private car yesterday and engaged apart- . who was formerly on, a soclety belle of nton. — e CALIFORNIANGS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, May 1—C. J. Hall of San Francisco is at the Wellington; D. Martin of San Francisco is at the Metro- politan. Mrs. ughter of San Francis ing the winter in ington, returned home to-night. e . CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, May 1.—Gail Borden of Los Angeles is at the Fifth Avenue. - e ANSWERS TO CORRr PONDENTS. BEET SUGAR—E. T. 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RovhL Baking Powder e Safeguards the food against alum, the Supervisor to whom it was addressed turned to one of his ussociates with the remark: “These fellows must take us for a lot of 10-cent schoolboys.™ The Geary-street franchise is one of the most valuable in the city, and when it re- powders are the greatest o“!.::pramtday. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. Alum menacers to