The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 24, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO, CALL WED,NEESDAY - MAY 24, 1899. @all .eee. MAY 24,1890 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. e e . Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Main 1565 EDITORIAL ROOMS.. 2i7 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1574 CENTS PER WEEK. DELIVERED BY CARRIE Single Coples, B cents Terms by Mall, Including Postare: DAILY CALL (including Sunday wall). one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 8 months. 3.00 DAILY CALL tincluding Sunday Call), 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Mo .th 2 BUNDAY CALL One Year. KLY CALL, One Year , 5 All postmasters are authorized to recefve subscriptions. Sample copies will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE... 908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE *7)‘.‘0 'm 188, World Bullding C. GEO. KROGNESS. Advertising Repreeentative. WASHINGTON (D. C.*]WI‘I ICE Wellington Hotel C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE....... ... ....Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICE6—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until o'clock. 6821 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin strest. open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open unti! 10 o'clock. 2891 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Columbia—""The Moth and the Flame.” Grand Opera House—'‘The Gypsy Baron.” vaudeville. hutes Zoo and Free Thepter—Vaudeville eve and evening. Olympia—Corner Mason and Fllfe streets—Specialties Interstate Panorama Co., Market street, near Eighth—Bat- Manila Bay. Sutro Baths—Swimming Races, eto. Sherman-Clay Hall—Knsisel Quartet Concerts, Friday even M E ran-Clay Hall—Pianoforte Recital, Thursday ening, ~ AUCTION SALES. By Baldwin & Howell—Thursday, May %, at 12 o'clock, Rea) afe. at 10 Montgomery street. 1 THE CHARTER CLUB. HE meeting at Metropolitan Temple on Mon- a civic body for the pur- al administration in ries was a very sig- ress by the chairman de- San Francisco during v half a biliion dol- ay night to organize yse of influencing munici rest of property : ering decline in va s sufficiently startiing to stir to o age injured by that mighty sented the case by a reader with all the interest novelty when he said the purpose of the meeting , I determine some means by which s to the owners of our city.” he own e It would appear on the rface that the city is owned by the politicians and 3 They take the taxes and spend them, and the property-owners run event fu city.” office-holders. They are in authority. in their assess- desp rising taxable rate ing actnal value, until there is a feeling abroad that they are the tenants of the prop- for her and yon mercy ments, upon looking on a constantly fa erty and the offic ers are the landlords So it strikes one as novel when the property- owners are referred to truthfully as “the owners of It is their property. That property has in value for ten years at the rate of fifty mil- led to lions a year, and its owners have at last conclud take matters into their own hands and find out w property, the city, has lost value at such a the; The gods stand off while the man cries for help to pull his wagon out of the mire; but when he puts hi own shoulder to the wheel and says nothing, but with tance The owners of this city have been invoking all the powers of earth and air and water to come to their ance ne. But now they have taken hold themselves, and if their expressed purpose is carried out politics will no longer hold a club over them, but they will hold a club over politics and harness it to their policy for the municipal, commercial and industrial regenera- tion of San Francisco This city wants more business and the greater popu- | lation that it will bring. Half million clubs are use- less things if they propose to merely bring immigra- tion without bringing also the business that must sup- port it. It is not only through municipal administra- tion that lost values are to be recovered, but through individual and organized enterprise in business. San Francisco has not had enough of this enter- prise. Business plants that shon.d have come here have gone elsewhere. For the sake of that prime economy in transportation, the bringing of ship and car together, commerce has gone up the bay to Port Costa, and much of it farther away to Puget Sound ports, because ship and car are kept apart in this ilities in the world for furopean cities have spent re that lity which is put here by nature and without cost The Central Republican Charter Club will find r its work in the interest of the own- v, and it must first convince them that they are the owners, and that their interests are mu- tual and common. How would the affairs of a stock company flourish if its owners, the stockholders, should consider themselves Republicans or Demo- superior to their character as owners city, which has the best bringing them together. millions of dollars to sec n ample scope f ers of this ci crats in a se of the property? lay a competent ticket for directors was opposed by How would things go if on election et of incompetents who would be elected be- cause their political partisans were in a majority in the company? The owners of this city are the own- ers of its property. Their interests are common and mseparable. What hurts one hurts all. Let them re- mber this and determine to stand together as the owners of a common interest, and municipal adminis- tration will become a business affair in which the in- | terests of the owners of the will be considered and all the people will be helped by it. B e Thomas Reed of Maine may not be the most lov- able man in the world, but there is no. disputing his Any budding statesman with designs on the retiring Speaker’s chair would do well to furnish him- 1f with guy ropes to keep from slithering around on s highly polished surface city caliber. The Prince of Wales, the dispatches announce, affects a pronounced liking to hear American “coon” songs whistled. Is it possible that his Royal High- ness contemplates the introduction of the cake walk into the aristocratic and exclusive circles in which he moves? o | Let street to its absolute control all his might, then all Olympus runs to his | and lift the value of their property out of its | | Boa | w THE MARKET STREET RAILROAD INIQUITY. HEN the cars of the Market street combina- Wtion straddle the crossings of . the streets or pass them at a high rate of speed, ignoring the | motions of waiting customers, there are a few gen- | tlemen in San Francisco who always take off their Ihats to indicate their appreciation of Mr. Hunting- ton's absolute rule and of the fact that pedestrians liave no rights that the Market Street Railway Com- | pany is bound to respect. It had been supposed that, owing to legal obstacles, the attempted grab by this arrogant monopoly of whole sections of the city so as to reduce almost the entire territory north and much of it south of Mar- had been tem- | porarily abandoned. But, at the meeting of the rd of Supervisors on Monday last, the community | undeceived, for all the former demands were re- fm'cd and extended, with the recorded sanction of seven members of the board. Nothing but a technical blunder, so far as can be seen, prevented the entire | grab as amended from reaching the first legal stage on | the road to success. | In the editorial columns of The Call on the 7th and | 8th of May the comprehensiveness and the rascality of | this audacious invasion of public right were clearly exposed. It was not then certain, however, that a majority of the Street Committee of the Board of Su- pervisors were ready, in private session, to accept any proposal the Market Street Railway Company had to offer, in order to thwart the operation of the new charter, or that a majority of the board itself were eager to act as ratifying agents of the monopoly. This flaunting contempt of the pablic will and of the public interests was reserved for the proceedings of Monday. The details of this unprecedented scheme of plun- der have now been perfected. It includes the re- mainder of Sansome street north of Pacific street, a block on Battery street between Sacramento and Cali- fornia streets, a block on Stockton street between Pacific street and Broadway, and two approaches to the city and county line, one terminating on Milliken street and the other on Forty-ninth avenue, near the | Cliff House. All these franchises are exacted for fifty years, or double the time allowed by the new charter. The present Geary street franchise, which would ex- pire November 6, 1903, it is proposed to surrender on | condition that a new and coextensive franchise, cov- ering electricity and all other motive powers, be | granted. The new franchises on Taylor street be- tween Geary and Post streets and along Grant avenue from its intersection with Geary street to Bush street and down Bush street to Sansome street are of course demanded. provements in motive power is also required for the whole system. The new charter not only limits the duration of street railroad franchises to one-half the period now permitted, but explicitly declares that no such franchise shail be granted unless the percentage of gross receipts offered is at least 3 per cent for the | first five years, 4 per cent for the next ten and 5 per | cent for the last ten years. The drafted resolutions now | presented by the Market Street Railway Company | | relieve the corporation from the payment of any per- 'ccnmge for five The statute of March 13, 1897, | only requires 3 per cent to be contributed for the last forty-five years of the franchise. The new charter, furthermore, enables the municipality “to fix, establish and reduce the fares and charges for transporting pas- sengers and goods,” and contains other stringent provisions for the protection of the public which are | not embodied in the existing laws. | This is the most atrocious and unspeakably dishon- est plan and to firmly intrench a railroad despotism in our midst of which there is any record. The bulkhead bills of 1859 and 1860, which sought to place the entire water front in the hands of French capitalists, were supposed at ,the time to have no precedent for infamy and for audacity. But in 1890 the Market Street Railway Company has easily surpassed that wholesale scheme | of confiscation which the Supervisors of forty years | ago repudiated, and of the triumph of which there was never any danger while an honest Governor pos- sessed the veto power. Now, in the full glare of pub- licity, with the facts and with the law thoroughly ven- | tilated and understood, it appears that all Mr. Hun- | tington has to do is to signify his pleasure to seven members of the board and his intricate robbery is ap- proved, before even its details could have been read. | As the new charter goes into effect on January 1, ‘ 1900, and as the existing franchise of the Geary Street | Railway Company has more than four years to run, it is impossible for any part of the vile project which has been thus impudently uncove 1or so much of it as relates to Geary street, to suc- ceed without Cranks | fanatics are often unjust to public officers, but thi: | @ proposition that the most tolerant citizen in San | years. to destroy possible competition , and especially manifest corruption. and | Francisco cannot fail to indorse. To give franchises for half a century, and to deprive the city of not less | than 3 per cent on gross receipts for five years, and of an increasing proportion for forty-five i longer, when, by waiting for seven months, the new | law that the people and the Legislature have ratified | can be enforced, is transparently iniquitous and in- | capable of explanation. And these are only isolated | specifications of the enormous injury that this com- | munity is expected to endure. The monopoly could years afford to pay a million dollars to consummate the steal. I the opinion of the City and County Attorney rupon the questions arising from this latest railroad | fraud has been delivered there has been no publication | of the fact. But appearances indicate that neither | law, evidence nor our metropolitan necessities, which | are increasing year by year, are to receive the slight- est consideration at the hands of Mr. Huntington or | of a bare majority of the Board of Supervisors. | The patience of the property-holding citizens of | San Francisco has been frequently and severely taxed, | but this last raid upon the municipality transcends all | former experience. THE CONTEST FOR THE SPEAK- ERSHIP. '\/\/Iic a formal notice of his intention to retire from political life, and has not resigned his seat in Congress, it is abundantly evident that he has date for the .Speakership of this Cangress. That much is demonstrated by the activity of the canvass now going on for the office. The number of candidates is about as large as that of States having strong Republican delegations in Congress, for while there are some such States hav- ing no candidate, there are several which have two or more, and the average holds good. It is gratifying to note that thus far hardly any candidate has been put forward upon sectional grounds, though of course such considerations are sure to come later. For the present the one desire of the party appears to be that of choosing the best man for the place. Numerous as are the aspirants, only a few of them have any strong following at this time. Among The use of electricity and of other im- | given his friends notice that he will not be a candi- | Ray. The first two are men of long experience and represent the veterans of the party, while Ray is a young warhorse and hopes to win by dash and vigor rather than upon his record. Illinois has a veteran candidate in the well-known “Joe” Cannon, who as chairman of the Committee on Appropriations has rendered good service to his party and proven himself an able debater. The same State has also a young man candidate in Mr. Hopkins, who, however, has some claims as a veteran also, since he has served in eight Congresses. He isfnow making a more active canvass than any other candidate and has already gone to Washington to catch any stray Representative who may be there. Ohio has a candidate in Mr. Grosvenor, who dur- ing the last Congress was looked upon as the spokes- man of the administration and whose skill as a de- bater and as a parliamentarian is well known. Towa presents for the office General David Bremer Hender- son, a veteran of Congress and of the Civil War—a man not only of strong but of picturesque character and much given to the use of language that requires explanation. For example, he is now being charged | with having said that American hams for export ought to be wrapped in the stars and stripes, and his enemies hold he has more reverence for the Iowa ham than the banner of his country, despite his ser- vice under it in war. It is probable the contest may be prolonged to such a point that a dark horse will have a chance to win. | Should that prove so, the Pacific Coast should cer- ztainly have a candidate to put forward, not on sec- | tional grounds, but upon the broad principle that it is time for the nation to recognize the services of Pacific Coast men. Mr. Loud has' risen steadily in | the estimation of the House and of the country dur- ing his service in Congress and would be a good man to support should there be any chance for a man | from the coast. | == ROM every point of view the steps taken by the I bond Police | to be to Grand Jury to investigate the straw frauds alleged to have been practiced by | Court Clerk Kelly are gratifying, and it is | hoped the inquiry will be eventually extended lco\er the whole range of such offenses. | The straw bond evil is one which has long been complained of in every important city in the United | States. It is an outgrowth of the shyster element which has been permitted to attach itself to the bar, {and which by its own corruption has corrupted the practices of the courts themselves and led to the de- | velopment of a hundred forms of trickery, cunning |and fraud to defeat the law. Every now and then there occurs some flagrant in- stance of such corruption to arouse public indigna- | tion, and then there is time renders the tricksters more in their work. Rarely, however, does it happen in any city | that wholesale convictions of offenders take place and adequate punishment is meted out. any earnest effort to accomplish such results is always a matter for public congratulation. From the reports given out of the results of the in- vestigation thus far, there appears good prospect that ample evidence will be obtained in the investigations cautious THE STRAW BOND INVESTIGATION. | | set forth at length and will no doubt re- from A. B. Spreckels, president of the State Board of Agriculture, and is as | follows: May 19, 1599 To the Board of Supervisors—Gentlemen: At a recent meeting of the State Agricultural Society It was determined to communicate | an investigation, which for a | Therefore | now undertaken by the Grand Jury to obtain at least | one conviction. Kelly seems to have carried on the practice of issuing straw bonds with such boldness | that his offenses can be easily proven even under the restrictions placed upon legal testimony. It is stated that there have been submitted to the Grand Jury over one hundred bonds accepted by Kelly which bond experts have declared to be worth- less. Some of the saloon-keepers who signed bonds which Kelly accepted are reported to have admitted they signed them for political reasons, while others assigned business reasons for their action. One of the latter is quoted as having said: “In every case where I went as surety on a bond I did so as a matter of business. When a frequenter of my saloon had the misfortune to be arrested I gladly consented to be- come one of his bondsmen rather than have him stay in jail over night.” It appears, moreover, that in the course of the in- vestigation the Grand Jury has discovered evidence that in many cases criminals have been released be- fore the bonds required by law were filed. Thus it is said that a woman, a notorious pickpocket, was once | released on an order from Kelly five minutes after she was arrested, while the required bonds were not fur- | nished and placed on record in court until the fol- lowing day. The pcnfl!c of San Francisco have seen so many prosecutions based upon seemingly irresistible evi dence come to nothing that they will not be sanguine of conviction in this case, notwithstanding the strength of the testimony reported to have been given. Still they will be well pleased if the Grand Jury con- tinue its efforts. Exposure is not as good as convic- tion, but it helps to hold rascality in check, and that is something. o e —— The people of the United States persist in insisting that this is not a warlike nation. It may not be, but any foreigi statesman who will take the trouble to ! glance at the programme of exercises for the coming Memorial day will hardly be convinced. He will see | there represented the veterans of three wars—not in- cluding the Filipino affair—and will probably come to the conclusion that your Uncle Sam is all right when he is let alone and all fight when he is not. | The sugar industry has grown to such magnitude in Hawaii that it has been found necessary to encroach tupon the lands formerly used for the pasturage of cattle. As a consequence they are experiencing a meat famine in Honolulu, which the merchants of San Francisco will find profit in averting. It is hardly necessary for Attorney General Ford to deny the statement in a dispatch from Sacramento that Governor Gage had sought his advice concerning the legality of certain appointments. It is evident from the many breaks made by the Governor that he | has sought advice from no one. + Brassey’s Annual announces with great serious- | ness that the battle of Manila Bay conveyed only les- | sons of an obvious character. The instruction was | certainly very plain to those Spaniards that were left | after the engagement. John McGoomis not only vindicated his own man- hood but he struck a blow for an absent man when he landed on one Bermah Speck for disrespectful re- imarks concerning Admiral Dewey. Czar Nicholas has notified the Baron de Staal that | he desires international arbitration even if it be com- | pulsory. If that is not a distinctly Russian way of | looking at a thing, what is it? S e It is wired from Chicago, as an entirely novel | proposition, that gamblers in that city pay for police | protection. In what other way could they have se- cured it? Sl_larkey says that Fitzsimmons can inflict terrific unishment. Sharkey certainly ought to know, but _ Lthese are three New York men, Sherman, Payne and | who advised him to be candid? {China. 17: Argentine Republic, 5. SAN FRANCISCO SHOULD HAVE A BIG EXHIBIT —_—— Represensation at the State Fair. —— APPEAL TO SUPERVISORS —_— THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE TAKES ACTION. AR President A. B. Spreckels Gives Rea- gons Why the Metropolis Should Make a Good Showing This Year- P o An urgent appeal has been made to the |- Board of Supervisors by the State Board of Agriculture, to secure proper represen- tation of the city's industries at the State Fair to be held in Sacramento next fall. The reason why such representation from the State’s metropolis should be made are ceive proper consideration at the hands of the board. The appeal comes to the board in the form of a communication with the Boards of Supervisors of thé various counties apd to request them to have prepared an exhibit of the agricultural products and resources of thelr respective counties. The directors desire to give the State Fair a State character and to make it as broadly | useful to every section of the State as pos- sible; to make it a medjum for the supplying of agricultural and industrial information, the promotion of internal developments and the encouragement of desirable immigration. The usual attendance at a State Fair is very large, and a great number of persons from abroad who are contemplating locating or in- vesting In this State, or who might be in- duced to locate or invest here, come to the State Fair to view the products of our State and to determine her agricultural and indus- trial possibilities. To the end that our great of products should be given proper splay and 4 accurate and reliable evi- may of the special products of each section Of the State, the directors de- sire that an exhibit of the' products of each county be prepared by the Board of Super- Visors of each County for exhibition at the approacuing §tate Fair. A separate 'portion of the Exhibition Pa- vilion will be set apart for these county ex- hibits, which will be set up by the soclety without expense, and a proper and qualified attendant will be put in charge who will pre- | sent and explain in detail to travelers and | the general public. If the county, or any Board of Trade, Immigration Soclety or Cham- ber of Commerce organized within it desire | to supply any literatyre or printed matter for distribution In- connection with, this display, | n it -will be so ributed by the person charge. If the county or any county orga ization should desire to employ a special at- | tendant for its exhibit no objection will be | made. As 1o the character and extent of the county | exhibits, the board desires that this should be left entirely to the discretion of the county | authorities making the exhibit. The exhibit | should contain samples or dispinys of the leading and most valuable products of the re- spective counties. such simplicity sources This could be done with or elaboratfon as the re- | of the board necessitate. It can be | small and inexpensive or it may | be made much more extensive and costly. In your county, for example, your people are largely Interested In frulf, green, dried and preserved: raisins, wines, wheat, barley, corn, hay, alfalfa, hops, dairy produce, etc. Sai ples of these products, of such size and e: tent, mounted or prepared in such manner as | vour taste and judgment dictate, would form | a sul{‘lciellt representation of your agricultural wealth. | These exhibits, when properly prepared, will be of primary and principal importance to the county making them, but when all pre- pared will constitute an industrial and agri- | cultural map of California and will be of | such general benefit that it is to be hoped | that every county will, with proper public | spirit, contribute its share. | The State Board of Agriculture very much desires that you should give this matter such | attention as it requires, and that you will | do so at a sufficiently early day to provide | for the collection of all the different articles in proper season. The cost of the collection by you will be very small indeed. You can make it as emall as the resources at your command necessitate. The society will at- tend to its mounting and display and will provide for its explanation and presentation to the greatest possible number of spectators. Hoping that vour board will take this mat- | ter up at your earliest conventence and notify | the soclety of your favorable action, I am, Yours respectfully, ~ A. B. SPRECKELS, President. PETER J. SHIELDS, Secretar: ANSWERS TO CORRESECNDENTS. REPRESENTATIVES Subseriber, Santa Maria, Cal. The State of New York has_thirty-four Representatives in Con- gress. Rhode Island nas two. RAINFALL—J. H. V. D. H., City. The records of the Weather Bureau show that the rainfall for the season of 187 was 23.43 inches and for 1898 was 9.38 inches in California. i NATIONAL HOLIDAY—C. B., City. The reason that there is no national holi- gay in the United States is that Congress | has never passed an act declaring that | any particular day shall be a national | holiday. i | SAGE IN CALIFORNTA—M.,, City. The common or garden sage can be cultivated in any part of California, and it will to such an extent that it may be di to eradicate. NOT EXEMPT-R. L., Sacramento, | Cal. “Exempt militia men holding hon- orable discharges” are not exempt from the payment of .poll tax in California, un- less above 60 years of age. ROOSEVELT—E. Y. T., FEureka, Cal. | The name of Governor Theodore Roose- velt of New York is pronounced as if| written “Ros-velt,”” with the “0” sounded as that letter is in move and the ‘e’ sounded as in met. BORAX SOAP—I. O. F., Crows Land- ing, Cal. The following Is given as a method of making borax soap: Borax in | fine powder, one ounce; honey or windsor | soap, one pound; mix by either beating | in a mortar or by gentle heat. OLD PEOPLE'S HOME-E. T., City. Applicants for admission to the Old Peo- | le’s Home at the corner of Plerce and | ine streets in_ this city should apply fn person or by letter to the superiniendent, | yho will furnish a cireular”of informa tion., ANNUAL WORK-S., North Bloomfleld, Cal. A miner who reeides on his claim and performs the annual amount of as- sessment work is not required to make an annual record thereof, but if he does, and there is nothing to hinder him from 80 dfilng» it is proof ‘huat he has done that work. : TO BECOME MASTER—Subscriber, Santa Rosa. Cal. A young man whose ambition is to becomde master of a bay | or ocean vessel must in the first place | study navigation. He should go to Some school of navigation and there he will be informed as to the character of books he would have to procure. SEQUENCE IN CRIBBAGE-H. S, City. The law of cribbage says that if there is a break in the sequence of cards layed, and in the subsequent play the reak is filled up without the interven- | tion of a card out of sequence order, the = layer completing the sequence is’ en- | lf(l'id to & score of one for each card | of it. NAVIES OF THE WORLD—G. E. M., Hollister, Cal. The navies of the world, as to ships, rank as follows: Great Brit- ain, 683; France, 317; 1 States, 249; Russia, 103; Ttaly, 91: Japan, %0: Germany, 77; Spain, T3; Netherlands, 72 Austria-Hun. &ary. 49; Norway, 41; Chile, 38; Sweden, ; Greece, 27; nmark, 24; Turkey, 23; Tow | cult | | ex_officio. | robbed by two soldiers the previous night | robbery. T0 ENTERTAIN THE SAGES OF AGRICULTURE . Distinguished Experts to Be Welcomed. —— WILL REQUIRE OVER $3000 Sl NO SIGHT-SEEING—STUDY WILL | BE THEIR PASTIME. e An Interesting Itinerary That In- cludes a Glimpse of Every Branch of Agriculture Represented in California. —— The work of preparing a reception to the Association of American Agricultural Colleges, which will meet here early in July, was well started yesterday in ‘the rooms of the Chamber of Commergg. Notices had been sent to all thefmem- bers to attend a meeting to discuss plans of procedure, and before it closed a well defined idea had been formulated for the two committees that were appointed. Mayor Phelan presided and Professor Jaffa, assistant professor at the Univer- sity of California, explained the purpose of the meeting. He showed what an ad- vertisement for California the convention would be if the members of it were only given an opportunity to study conditions of agriculture in this State. He said there | had been planned a trip of perhaps a | thousand _miles, which would take in| Sonoma, Napa, Sacramento, Santa Clara and San Joaquin valleys. The railroad had offered a rate of §1 a mile for the special, and had offered to stop the train anywhere where it would not interfere | with general traffic. Mr. Foster of the San_Francisco and North Pacific Rail- road had also made an offer of transpor- tation. He would give a special for the Sonoma Valley. Professor Jaffa estimated that there would at least 150 in the party, and the | trips planned would take eight or nine | days. Mr. Mills supg}emen[ed Professor | Jaffa’'s remarks with a few suggestions as to the itinerary. His idea was to take | the visitors to the great centers of in-| dustry, such as Chico for harvesting, | Napa for deciduous fruits, Salinas for beet sugar, Oroville for citrus fruits, Ba- | kersfield for irrigation and Marin for dairying. It was understood Los Angeles | and “the south would look after the trav- elers south of Tehachapl. | . C. Darby, president of the Board nt‘ Trade of San Jose, was on hand to offer | the co-operation of San Jose in any plan | for entertainment. 2 i It was decided to appoint a committee on arran(glemems and one on finance. They were made up as_follows: Arrangements—Professor Jaffa, J. A. Filcher, Colonel E. A. Denicke, E. F.| Adams. H. H. Taylor, A. C. Darby, Cap- tain Nelson, a professor from Stanford | University to be selected and the Mayor‘ Finance—Prentiss Smith, T. J. Parsons, Julian Sonntag, E. B. Pond, Archie Schmidt, A. 8. Baldwin, Leroy Nicol, A. | Sbarboro, Charles Bundschu and 'the | Mayor ex officio. Professor Jaffa was named secretary of the main organization. He will establish headquarters at room 4, second floor, Mills | buflding. Tt has been decided that there will be | but little sightseeing, The visitors will come to learn, and it is considered that in glving them an opportunity to do so | they will be best entertained. It will take | at least $3000 to properly care for them. | The Mayor has already subsoribed $20 and H. H. Taylor $100. The finance com- mittee will attend to the collection of the remainder. AROUND THE CORRIDORS L. T. Doan, a Los Angeles hotel man, is at the Grand. H. H. Harlow, a mining man of Gold | Gulch, is registered at the Grand. Thomas E. Wall, a prominent jeweler of Honolulu, is among the guests at the Occidental. H. J. Small, master mechanic of the | Southern Pacific at Sacramento, arrived vesterday and is at the Grand. F. S. Lyman, a wealthy planter of Hilo, | H. I, and Miss Esther Lyman arrived in | this city vesterday and are stopping at the Occidental. W. M. Gifford, manager of W. G. Irwin & Co., the big merchants of Honolulu, ar- rived yesterday and will remain some time at the Occidental Hotel. | J. Alfred Magoon, with his wife and three children, is stopping at the Occi- dental. Mr. Magoon is a prominent law- yver of Honolulu and will spend some time | in doing California. Charles Erickson of San Luis Obispo was among yvesterday's arrivals at the Grand. Mr. Erickson ‘s a well-known rail- road contractor, who has been handling Southern” Pacific work on the ‘“gap” for some months past - —— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, May Z.—W. J. Dutton of San Francisco is at the Arlington; A. | Hock of San Francisco is at the St. James; C. R. Nevins of San Francisco is | at Chamberlain | e CALITORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, May 23.—A. Schilling and John H. Wheeler, of San Francisco, are at the Plaza; A Stern of San Francisco | is at the Rivera; W. E. Lester and wife | of San Francisco are at the Holland; F. | | S. Hartman of Los Angeles is at the Hoff- | man. Mrs. Charles McLaughlin and Miss | Marie Laughlin, of San Francisco, were | -passengers on the Servia, salling for Liv- | erpool to-day. | —_————— ACCUSED OF ROBBERY. Allan Kane and Charles F. Wilson, Two Soldiers, Detained in the City Prison. Allan Kane and Charles F. Wilson, two soldiers, appeared before Judge Mogan yesterday to answer a charge of disturb- ing the peace. They were arrested Mon- day night by Policemen Flynn and Mec- Grayan, and at the request of the officers they were ordered into custody and their | bonds raised to $500 each. | Yesterday morning Mrs. Nyhan, 20431 Harrigon street, called at the City Prison | and said heér son, Timothy, had been of a purse containing $70. They had at- | tempted to cut his throat before robbing | him and cut his lip. She was sent to Judge Mogan's court and repeated her story, and the Judge accordingly in-| creased the bonds of the two soldiers, as they were suspected of committing the Detectives Graham and Fitzgerald of the Mission were detailed on the case and called at Mrs. Nyhan's house to get Tim- othy to go with them to the prison to see if he could identify. the soldiers, but Tim- othy complained that he was sick, and begged to be excused until this morning. The soldiers laugh at the robbery story, and the detectives do not place much cre- dence in it, as Timothy has been in trou- ble with the police himself. and they as- certained that he had taken the money from his mother. > Yesterday’s Insolvents. Henry Tejen, Alaméda, $1593, no assets; Asa F. Leopold, formerly of Crystal Falls, Mich., $25,000, no assets. | settlement of the controversy. | stamps and it will be mailed to you. EAS COMPAKY WILL APPEAL 10 THE COURTS —_— Afraid Its Bills Will Not Be Paid. e LIGHTS MAY BE SHUT OFF e DESPERATE MEASURES NOW ON THE PROGRAMME. . The Corporation Would Restrain the Board of Supervisors From Us- ing Money in the Street Light Fund. e The action taken by the Board of Su- pervisors Monday in again deferring final authorization for the payment of the bills of the San Francisco Gas and Electric Company bids fair to force the hand of the corporation because of the fact that there is a strong probability that there will be an attempt to dispose of the money in the fund used for the payment of the city’s light bills before the present Pcontest between the minority and the ma- jority in the board is adjusted. Should this be done the company will be left with unpaid light bills amounting in round fig- ures to $185,000 on its hands at the end of the fiscal year. As the debts contracted in one fiscal year cannot be paid out of the funds of another year the corporation would be left without recourse and the sum named would represent a net loss. Finding themselves face to face with this serious proposition the officials inti- mated yesterday that they would have recourse to one or both of two alterna- tives. One is that they will apply to the courts for an injunction to restrain the Board of Supervisors from transferring money from the street light fund to any other fund or for any other purpose than that of paying the city’'s light bills. The other is that they will shut off all of the city’s gas and electric lights and leave the community in darkness. This latter course would have the effect of bringing about an action that would result in an order of court directing the gas company to continue to serve the city with gas and electric light pending a legal Pending such determination through legal chan- nels the bills of the company would prob- ably be paid by order of court, such or- ders being payable out of any funds in the city treasury. In this manner the corporation would at least insure to itself the pag’ment of its light bills for the bal- ance of the fiscal year. It is not believed, however, that this course will be adopted for the reason that it would tend to preju- dice public opinion against the gas com. pany. It is certain that the gas company will take such legal steps as may be deemed recessary to prevent the Board of Super- viscrs from disposing of the money in the street light fund. If this is done the authorizations for the payment of the company's bills for November, December, January, Februai and March will be passed and they will then be vetoed by the Mayor. This will give the corpora- | tion the opportunity to apply to the courts for the fixing of The legal rate to be paid for gas. Cal. glace fruit 50c per b at Townsend's.* - Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telepnone Main 1042. * ————— Sentenced for Vagrancy. Nellie Murphy, the notorfous pickpocket, | was vesterday sentenced to three months in the County Jail by Judge Mogan on the charge of vagrancy. She has also to stand her trial before the Superior Court on a charge of grand larceny, having been held to answer on Monday by Acting Po- lice Judge Groezinger. ——— A Work of Art. The new book, ‘‘Wonderland,"” by the Northern Pacific Ry. Ct just lssued is the pret- | tiest publication issued by any railway com- pany this year. It is full of beautiful half-tons {llustrations, and contains besides a well writ- ten description of a trip taken over this finely equipped line, including a trip through the wonderful Yellowstone Park. Send 6c in T Stateler, Gen. Agt., 638 Market st., San Fran- cisco. s S S — “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fitty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colio, reg. ulates the Bowels and fs the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mra, slow’s Soothing Syrup, %c a bottle, — e Rock Island Route Excursions, Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, via Rio Grande and Rock Island rallways. Through tourist sleeping cars to Chicago and Boston. Manager and porter accompany these excur- stons through to Boston. For tickets, sleeping car accommodatiohs and further information, address CLINTON JONES, General Agent Rock Island Raflway, 624 Market st S. F. —————— HOTEL DEL.CORONADO—Take advantags of the round-trip tickets. Now only 360 by steamship, including fifteen days' bomrd at hotel; longer stay, §2 50 per day. Apply at 4 New Montgomery street, San Francisco. _— e WHEN the hair is thin and gray PABKER's HArR BALsAM renews the growth and color. HINDERCORNS, the best cure for corns. 15 ota. ————— - Burglary in the City Hall The office of Prosecuting Attorney Car- penter in the City Hall was entered by a burglar Sunday night and an overcoat, book and a pair of rubbers belonging to Dr. Sarsfield,. the German interpreter, were stolen. The burglar effected an en- trance by forcing open the window that opens on the esplanade running around e central court. It is supposed it 18 the same burglar that broke into the Sheriff's office. 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