The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 9, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1899. .JUNE 9, 1899 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, P roprietor. fadress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Matn 1868. DITORIAL ROOMS. .217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. DELIVERED RY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coptes, 5 cents. Terms DAILY CALL ( DAILY CA DAILY CALL (including DAILY CALL—By Single Moxth, SUNDAY CALL One Year.... WEEKLY CALL, One Year All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample s will be forwarded when requested. CQAKLAND OFFICE... NEW YORK OFFICE Rocm 188, World Building C. GEO. KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS. orf-Astor Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; y Hill Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE Wellington Hotel C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE . . C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. an use; P. O. 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AGRICULTURAL SCIENTISTS. 1 le preparation is the representatives of American rent stations, which vy 5. The meeting i the most eminent nd their study ate cannot fail to be nd expe buntry, ies of our Si to themselves but to us. in the At an engages Every of ghest accom- , the revised and i American Agri- kill the world ce as applied to h in the way of ex- esent the I Marquette Building | 1505 Polk street, open | CORPORATE AGGRESSIONS CHECKED. | States in the case of the San Diego Land ar!d Town Company vs. National City and others. in which a decree of Judge Ross in the Circuit Court of the United States at Los Angeles had been affirmed. | Tt was then pointed out that both in the Ir{\»;c.— and in the higher courts_the rights of municipalities against corporations that furnished water or other public utilities had been trenchantly enforced, ‘and that the rule established by the decision covered the pretension of the railroad in the grain rate case to the effect that practically the Federal tribunal | would usurp the functions of the Railroad Commis- | sion and determine what reasonable and just freight and passenger charges ought to be. | Feeling the pinching effect of the latest expresfion | from the highest source on this important guestion, | railroad organs have industriously sought to misrep- resent the opinion, written by Mr. Justice Harlan, in | the case to which we have referred, as in other re- | spects they have dishonestly endeavored to attribute | tc Judge Morrow opinions which, if he entertains them, he has never expressed. It is.a common rail- road trick to pretend that in some respect the law has been declared in conformity with its aggressive at- tacks upon the public or to minimize the influence of { a hostile ruling by assuming that it is merely the ex- pression of some doctrine from which there has been no dissent. For example, even the railroad would { concede, as an abstract proposition, that the limit of | judicial interference with rates established by State | authority is to ascertain whether they are reasonable jaud just. But, in the practical application of the N The Call of May 26, 1899, attention was dircg(ed to the decision of the Supreme Court of the United as 8 | proposition its constant effort for years has been to | induce the Federal courts to hold and to assume that | they had held, not that they would look into a record | merely to see whether a Railroad Commission had exercised some intelligent discretion and had not ar- | | bitrarily formulated rates that were obviously unfair, but that, in the periormance of this duty, they would virtually base their conclusions upon their own judg- ment of the facts. The full text of the opinion of the Supreme Court | of the United States is more drastic than the tele- ‘graphlc synopsis had indicated. It is unusually full, concise and explicit. It reviews and clarifies former de- cisions in respect to freights and fares that had been misinterpreted, and, citing the case of Spring Valley Water Works vs. San Francisco (82 Caliiornia Reports, 286-313 holds that State constitu- tion or State law which requires the exercise | of discretion and judgment in fixing water or railroad rat an be impugned as violating the Federal con- stitution, and that before action of this character can sailed, in the language of our own “There must be actual fraud in fix- ing the rates or th ust be so palpably and grossly nable and unjust as to amount to the same In other words, whether the judgment of a no be successfully as: Supreme Court: unrea thing.”" board in establishing rates for corporations cxercis-I ing franchises derived from the public be regarded as judicial, legislative or administrative, or as a mixture of the three classes of powers, it can only be ques- tioned when its*effect is confiscation. “Judicial inter- ference should never occur unless the case presen clearly and beyond all doubt, such a flagrant attack upon the rights of property under the guise of regu- lations as to compel the courts to say that the rates prescribed will necessarily have the effect to deny just compensation for private property taken for the public us And, in words that exceptionally pertinent and important in this State and in this municipality, the court adds: “But the rights of the public would be ignored if rates for the transportation of persons or property on a railroad are exacted with- out reference to the FAIR value of the property used for the public or the FAIR value of the ser- vices rendered, but in order simplythat the corporation may meet operating expenses, pay the interest on its obligations and declare a dividend to stockholders. IF A RAILROAD CORPORATION HAS | BONDED ITS PROPERTY FOR AN AMOUNT THAT EXCEEDS ITS FAIR VALUE, OR IF ITS are of course been carried | CAPITALIZATION IS LARGELY FICTITIOUS, d great results have been {17 MAY NOT IMPOSE UPON THE ‘PUBLIC 1t 1 no other land has so much study | THE BURDEN OF SUCH INCREASED RATES and such extensive experiment been made as in the | g \fAY BE REQUIRED FOR THE PURPOSE With us not only has every State its | o REALIZING PROFITS UPON SUGH EX- 1 college and experimental farm, but our | CESSIVE VALUATION OR FICTITIOUS CAP- g population is more intelligent, more progres- ITALIZATION.” These propositions SOE e hat of any other nation, and as a conse- | ;hacised and summarized in the declaration: “What agriculture is now far in advance of the 40 company is entitled to demand:in order that it have just compensation is a FAIR return upon al industfies of California have been built g cootcrovte o tne b roerty AT THE TIME 1 from all States in the Union and from {1 1§ BEING USED FOR.THE PUBLIC.” all nations. We have learned something not These extracts, sustained by the most- irrefragable ym the science of Germany and France, but argument and by numerous authorities, practically the patient toil of China and Japan. Neverthe- | (yie the main issues between the railroad and the there remains much to learn, and from the ob- ' giite and between the municipality and the water and ations and criticisms of trained experts from all gas monopolies. If the temporarily suppresséd ques- 1 we may derive lessons which will | ione i the grain rate case are revived, as they un- ofit to us, if we rightly heed them and |, eqtionably will be when Railroad Commissioners ke use of them Blackstock and Laumeister are superseded by repre- an countries, a ne but world. less, ser Uni parts of be of vast ber 1 those having ir for nece assist It is gratifying to learn that it “ ‘hc_ mtcntionA of | centatives of the people, Mr. Huntington will ascer- charge the reception of the coming iy that his grip upon productive industry has been v th something at least of all the Telnxed: ferent sections of the State. They are to be enabled | , sce how widely varied are the resources and rural A WAIL FROM PORTO RICO. tries of California, and to have opportunities to i study our fruit districts, vine districts, wheat dis- UR colonial responsibilities are like misfor- tricts, sugar beet districts and grazing districts. To O tunes in one respect at least; they have not htl ich extensive visits it will come singly. While our attention is mainly be y to provide ample funds, and all directed to the fighting Filipinos we are now ax&d‘ then parts of the State where visits arec to be made called upon to give some heed to the discontents in will of course be expected to in providing Cuba, the demand of Hawaii for a permanent form em, To raise the required fund is now the imme- ¢i government and cry of the people of Porto Rico te duty of all who are interested in our rural in- for what they call justice. ry and in our reputation for hospitality, and the The Filipino and the Cuban desire independence. should be responded to with promptness and The ome is fighting for it and the other is waiting with liberality. | patiently for us to give it to him. The Hawaiian desires to have the immigration question settled so that he may know whether to import more coolies or After all the Democratic feasts and powwows not a Svr\g!c idea has been put forward to p[]int out how to set about the task of dc‘ud‘“fl white men to come harmony can be arranged between the warring fac- t, his plantation. The Porto Rican asks neither for tions. There has been wind enough and to spare at_ jndependence nor a solution of a labor problem. He every meeting, but not a straw to show the way it g only to be recognized as an American citizen. blows. In a recent statement of the situation in the island 'the Porto Rican commissioners at Washington said: The people are not governed by the laws of the nited States, but are under the sword of a military governor, whose dictum is absolute and without ap- peal. The islanders are denied the rights of citizen- ship, and having broken with Spain and not yet being The death of Supervisor Ayer makes a big vacancy rccogx?ized as citizens of the United Smuv‘s are a peo- in the government of Santa Clara County, but it is Plc without a °°“T‘""' F"'e"“l.‘c Spaniards on. the safe to say that in appointing a successor Governor island have more rights and p.rmleg,e.s' ey can _take Gage can be relied upon to make a blunder big out papers and become Amer{can citizens, a privilege enough to fill it. not accorded to the Porto Rlvcefns. Instead of abso- lute free trade between the United States and Porto Paris should consult some authority on nerves. | Rico, as on interstate and interterritorial principles, a With its Dreyfus, Marchand and a dozen other nerve high tariff is kept up, unlawfully and without mercy, exciters the great city seems to be bearing the burden impoverishing the island, for when the customs are of a serious siege of national hysteria. paid all the profits are gone.” The imperialist who holds the most despotic view The Chinese and the Germans, the Japanese and of our right to govern our subjects as we please can the Russians, have clashed in deadly conflict. The hardly deny the justice of the Porto Rican claim. time is opportune for the Czar to suggest a few more Military rule is objectionable even to the people of ideas for his peace conference. | the old world, and why should we impose it upon a The small boy with the toy pistol is the evangel of the newspaper announcement, “Didn’t Know It Was U Loaded.” Twenty-six of him have been disarmed re- cently by the police of this city, and a nervous public breathes once more. people of this hemisphere? The Porto Ricans have done us no wrong. They have shown themselves willing to accept our government loyally and are eager to be identified with us. They ask of us nothing except fair trade and a government less arbitrary ;thnn that of a barrack yard. - We cannot deny such claims without denying the principles of the consti- tution and of the Declatation of Independence, and it is certainly not worth our while to deny so much for the sake of imposing a tyranny upon a friendly island. The evil is likely to become even greater than at present. As the commissioners have asserted, the people of the island hailed the advent of their deliv- erers from the Spanish yoke with joy and gratitude, but they now feel deeply aggrieved and enraged at the manner in which the Government has abused their rights and privileges, and are ready to adopt any means whatsoever for self-protection and the ame- lioration of their condition, even to a claim for abso- | lute independence. Such is the situation. We can overrun and conquer the Porto Ricans, of course, but such conquest would entail upon us another petty war with guerrillas, in which we would be forced to carry fire and the sword | where we ought to carry the plow, the schoolbook |and the Bible. Already we have learned that impe- rialism has its dark side, and now we see it has a i tendency to go from bad to worse. T Call, which has always stood by the navy, the army and the flag, would abandon its loyalty to !the American Government, cease to be Republican |and convert itself into a vigorous advocate of for- ;cib]e expansion wherever our national power could | reach. : CONDITIONAL IMPERIALISM. HERE are a few conditions under which The | These conditions are definite and intelligible. Some imperialistic lawyer must discover consti- | tutional objections to thé Declaration of Indepen- dence and secure a favorable decision by an American | court of the highest jurisdiction. He must also ob. tain a judicial determination that sedition consists nfl rigid adherence to American institutions. Some | | authoritative teacher of the moral code must collate ' the scriptural texts, especially in the New Testament, | hat enforce upon civilized nations the duty of pound- | ing the principles of fraternity into unwilling and re- | sisting barbarians. Some astute statesman must demonstrate the necessity of establishing the suprem- acy of military power beth at home and abroad and of coercing rebellious “subjects” of alien races, who assert their own individuality and decline to acknowl- | edge the fact that the Almighty denied them the per- | manent occupancy of their native soil and the right of | seli-government but granted them a temporary pos- | session for a few thousand years until a republic had | been specially erected to purchase and enforce their | allegiance. | struct the hi | { | | ory of Rome and prove that the Roman | | republic was perpetuated by imperial colonization. i Some invincible philosopher must demonstrate the | absurdity of governmental systems that accept man as |a political entity or treat him as an individualized in- | teger in civilization. Some learned apologist must successfully explain to Great Britain our deep regret | that our predecessors denied her authority or claimed | that taxation and representation were correlative or | that the thirteen colonies had any rights, provisional or inalienable, that the House of Brunswick was bound to respect. Some modern biographer must rewrite the lives of Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Madison and jother deluded founders and expositors of. our institutions and clarify the mystery of their failure to realize their own imbecility. Some com- prehensive jurist must show that our Civil War had no connection with the constitution and the Federal Union, but was an anticipatory development of a | policy of subjugation. Some original Republican | must correct our political records by conclusive proof | that, before, during and aiter the Civil War, Repub- | lican platforms were shams, that the constitutional | amendment abolishing slavery was a series of typo- graphical errors and that the later amendments were spurious interpolations. Some preserved filibuster {must justify the attempted invasions of Nicaragua | and of Cuba by official authorization from the Gov- | ernment archives. Every strictly American expres- | sion in favor of liberty and independence, under con- { stitutional safeguards, must be expurgated from the | works of Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Benton, Douglas | -and the host of Federal Senators who led down to Dan Burns. Every decision of American tribunals, every declaration of the law, fundamental or derived, | | by institutional or constitutional writers, not based upon an imperialistic precedent or direction, must be | eliminated. The messages and other state papers of | our Presidents, from Washington to McKinley, the opinions of our Attorney Generals, the diplomatic | utterances of the Department of State and of our | representatives in foreign parts, must be destroyed, as | | any attempt to harmonize any part of them with the | doctrines of the expansionists would be futile. The | American common school system and all American | | textbooks of a historical impression, together with the | entire mass of colonial and national annals, must be obliterated. Our national anniversary, with all its memories and all its associations, must finally be dis- | carded. Columbia must assume the costum¢ and wear the tiara of an Empress and Uncle Sam must be ar- rayed in the uniform of a Czar. ‘When all these transformations have been effected, our associated commonwealths and our Union recast in the mold of British imperialism, and | the metamorphosis accepted by seventy millions of | Americans, with their own sovereignty yielded and | with their own training, their own character and their | own ideals revolutionized; when the American eagle | has made a new eyrie on the peaks of other and dis- | tant lands; when the Atlantic and the Pacific beat | a perpetual dirge on the shores of a 8ead continental | republic and the genius of humanity vainly searches for its lost inheritance—then, but not before then, The Call will join the ranks of the intolerant ex pansionists and confess that the American experiment is ended. | When that concatenation of events is perfected Mr. | Huntington will be apotheosized as a statesman, a | patriot and a philanthropist, and Governor Gage and Dan Burns will have herded the American people into the paradise over which these heavenly twins affec- tionately preside. national | | | It is’ announced that a recent trip to Los Angeles had the startling effect of changing the opinions of Governor Gage on the political situation. There may be some consolation in the fact that his Excellency’s opinions could not change for the worse. There is such a thing as an “Ohio Valley Bimetal- lic League,” and since it has recently acted as if it | were the whole people of the United States, there can be no doubt that it really represents a portion at least of Ohio sentiment. Recent events show that Paris can no longer wag France as it could in former times. The republic has become bigger than the capital, and the boulevards can no longer cause a revolution without consulting the provinces. Some accredited historian must recon- | E ! when the First will reach San Francisco. | | get away by that time SURGEON GENERAL STERNBERG WILL VISIT THIS CITY Colonel Forwood Pre- paring for Him. MEDICAL OFFICERS EXCITED MAJOR GIRA;;;)B. THE NEW | HOSPITAL. The First California Will Arrive by the 1st pf August and Probably Sooner—Second Oregon Starts Monday. BT suldl The approaching arrival of Brigadier General George M. Sternberg, surgeon general of the army, has caused a flurry of excitement and anticipation among the medical officers of this department. Col- orel Willlam H. Forwood, chief surgeon of the department, has begun to issue or- ders right and left and the surgeons and assistant surgeons are kept on the jump getting everything In ship-shape order for the arrival of the surgeon general. | Colonel Forwood is determined that his superior shall find the affairs of his de- partment up to date. General Sternbérg, with his wife, is ex- bected here two weeks from next Sunda He is combining business and pleasure uron his trip and will be here some little time. The medical affairs of this depart- | ment have assumed such magnitude that | General Sternberg, who is noted for the | personal care he gives to all matters per- taining to his department of the army, Las decided to come here in order to have & look at things for himself. The new general hospital at the Presidio is to be turned over to the medical depart- ment on July 3, and General Sternberg will be here and make an inspection of the buildings before the medical officers take charge. Major Alfred C. Girard has been | selected to have charge of the new hospi- | tal. He is an officer of long experience | {and has a brilliant record as a surgeon. During the recent war he was a lieutenant | colonel of volunteers, and was the chief | surgeon in charge of Camps Alger and | Meade. Major- Matthews, who has been | ir: command of the general hospital at the | Presidio, will no doubt be under Major | Girard at the new hospital. General Stern- | | berg will make an inspection of the post hospital at the Presidio and also the old | general hosppital, and he will in all prob- | ability visit the other posts in the depart- | ment for the rurpose of inspecting the va- | rious hospitals. General Sternberg left | ‘Washington last Monday. and it is his in- | tention to stop over at a number of the | army posts before arriving here. | Major tthews, who was summoned st on Monday to appear as a witness in | xpected back in a week. Dur- | absence Captain Shaw, assistant s in command of the general surgeon, hospital at the Presidio. The instructions received by Thomas J. Ford, superintendent of mails at the main flice in this city, from the Postmaster | Seneral that all' mail for the California, | Oregon and Nebraska regiments, be held Lere has again started speculation as to | certain that the California will not be the | first regiment to leave the Philippines, a though it was promised that the regi- | ments were to be returned in the order in | which they left. The_Second Oregon will sail for Portland on HMonday and will be followed by the First Nebraska. which | regiment dfd not leaye Camp Merritt until the First California nad landed at Manila. This, it is said, s not a_breach of faith D by force of circumstances it is impossible | for the California boys to be the first to leave. The Californians are at Negros, ! and they cannot relf; ish that post until | they are relieved by the Sixteenth Infan-| try some _time next week. Judging from | this, the First should get away from Ma- | tila certainly by the last of this month, | which will bring them home by the first | of August. Some of the officers are in- clined to think that the First California may arrive here by the middle of July, but hardly before that. If they shouldl it will take a | month for the voyage, so that at the! earliest calculation the men of the regi- | ment can not be mustered out before (he | middle of September, and it may be the | ; he afternoon the and a number of arrests were made, but | 17, the afternoon the | the great body of the men stuck to the flécted erand officers and | preventing of association vessels from B i Tkl getting crews, and in this they were in P o son on the part of the War Department, but | g ) W LICERSE COLLECTOR WAL BE NOMIRATED Fred Lees Slated for the Place. SEAVEN SCORE WCTOR OVER SHPMASTERS Captain Nelson Takes ~ Union Men. THEY WILL MAN ALL HIS SHIPS; MEETING CALLED FOR TO-DAY A HARD BLOW FOR THE SHIP- MANY ASPIRANTS FOR THE i OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION. POSITION. —_— - Twenty-Seven Sailing Vessels and Auditor Wells and Treasurer Truman Five Steamers Fly the House | Are Agreed—The Patronage Flag of the Wealthy | of the Office Will Be Lumber Dealers. Divided. 2k ; ! i The Seamen’s Union of the Pacific has| At noon to-day Mayor Phelan, Auditor won a great victory over the Shipowners’ | Wells and Treasurer Truman will meet Association. It has brought over to its and nominate Frederick W. Lees for the side one of the assoclation’s vice presi- | position of License Collector, to succeed dents and strongest supporters and there | Theodcre F. Bonnet, the incumbent, is in consequence jubilation in the union | Whose term has expired. Lees will receive camp. This latest addition to the em- | the votes of Wells and Truman, the Re- ployers of union labor owns twenty-seven | publican members of the commission. | saliing vessels and five steamers, so there | Mayor Phelan will vote for Bonnet. is good cause for the joy felt by the mem- | There are many candidates for the posi- bers of the Seamen’s Union. | tion, the list including the names of Lees, The schooner Métha Nelson sailed for | James, W. Easton, P. Tiffany, Oscar Tacoma last Wednesday. She went into | Tolie, John Martin and Mr. Doane, late commission in 18%, and last Wednesday | of the firm of Doane & Henshelwood. -All was the first time in her history that she | have brought more or pressure to salled with a full union crew. At dif-|bear on the Rspublluln members oflth; £ | commission, and some have even receive Lerent tnes infs mon Have foned pah“ | assurances that their names would be of her crew, but on this occasion the | 1y considered. however, has men were secured 'in a body from the 16 of tha Repuolioan orEAD: union shipping office. The owner of the erday was given to under- Metha Nelson is Captain Charles Nelson, the well-known shipowner and lumber ary to dealer. He owns the steamers Centen- return has given a pledge that I nial, Charles Nelson, Cleveland, Lakme | levy tribute upon any of the a and’ North Fork and about twenty-five | the office in the event that h sailing _vessels, among which are the is confirmed by the Board of barks Colusa, John C. Potter and Edward | It is said that Lees has receive S May and schooners Olga, Ottillie Fjord, K ances from ten members of the board that Mary Buhne and Mary Dodge. All of his nomination will be confirmed. In re- these vessels will now, according to the turn for this each member is to be given union, be manned with sailors supplied one place in the License Collector’s of- from its shipping office. fice. “The balance of the patronage, which ‘When the Coast Seamen’s Union was at | consists of twent places, will be di- the height of .its power on the coast it | vided between Auditor Wells, Treasurer made a demand for an Increase in wages | Truman and the Republican organization. that made the shipowners fight back, the | Wells and Truman will get four places result being the Shipowners™ Association. | each, leaving eight places to be filled by i vorabiy the indorsem ization and y stand that he would receive the votes nec- He in secure the nomination. This was_composed of nearly all the big | thosé who direct the local affairs of the employers of seamen on the coast—A. M. | party. Simpson, Charles Nelson and W. E. —— Mighell being at its head. This combina- | tion struck a blow at the Sailors’ Union | from which it has never recovered. The | shipowners from that day regulated | wages and the sailor had to take what | was offered. The owners were invaria- | bly fair in the matter, advancing wages ' in the spring and summer when busi- ness was good and cutting them down | when business dropped off 4nd freights were low. About two months ago another fight be- COMPANIONS OF THE FOREST OF AMERICA Labors of the Grand Circle Come to a Close—Grand Body Will Not Disband—New Officers. The labors of the Grand Circle of the gan. At that time The Call gave exclu- Companions of the Forest of America sively both sides of the case.” The shib- | were brought to a close last evening. owners made an advance in wages which | )¢ PTOUEAC 1 Sk i theunionzraidimot «think ‘was: fafr and (- -UILE:the forenoon tho time of the equitable: Men were scarce and frieshts | delegates was taken up until recess by the tien to disband the place the membersh: under the jurisdiction of the Supreme cle, and when the vote was taken there were advancing every day, and the sai ors demanded $5 a month more than the shipowners were willing to pay. From that time on there has been more or less friction and not one of the Shipowners’ D Association v have got awa was only one In the affirmative and the tme. Some of them have been held two halance of the delegation was in the neg- ays and some a week In the stream |ative. § : awaiting a crew and the expense was in | J Dumber of minor amendments were consequence Very heavy. adopted, and_then a special resolution The fight has been a very bitter one thanking the San ¥ sco Call for publi- on of the new Grand Circle was vote. order and of the and at times it looked as though the un d by a unanimous ion would surely be beaten again. Some times its members resorted to violence Grand Chief o a measure successful The troublé with the Shipowners' As-| 1jlora Jacobs of San o, grand e As-| cnief compar Mrs. Aggie of sociation is that it cannot secure sajlors. | SPIET companion; ) O Far 1t has been apit secure sallors | Merced, sub-chief companion s coulet of San Franc vessels belonging to Its members, but in arti v order to do #0 valuable ttme has been | j Martin of Watsony wasted, and then half the men were SEres D- Jremer o “green_hands” who had never been to RS TETR e A sea before. It is no wonder, then, that it Joser e s one of the owners has decided to kick & SpunE g over the traces and take union men. s Jennie Wor- ., 0 —_—— utside guard ARCUND THE M e R.'Kemp Van Eee of San Francisco and e A. Davis of Oak ., truste nd was chosen as the next place of meeting. On behalf of the members of vention of 1899 Mrs. L. Atwood, CORRIDORS E. P. Colgan, Controller of the State, is down from Sacramento. Mrs. Oal ‘W. R. Caruthers, a prominent merchant t0F thal month befora theyiagain dod |, ¢ 'qonEs Trona is pending'a Tew days i the garb of citizens. d secretary presented a g | of one month, has | announced. Due notice of the time and | | legend. | tained by application at the office of the 1@ cross over the middle letter, the foot Major General Shafter, who has been at Bakersfield for the past few days, will be { at department headquarters again to-day He is expected to reach the city at 9 o'clock this morning. | Leave of absence for one month, with | permission to go beyond the limits of this | department and to apply for an.extension | been granted First | Lieutenant John C. Fux, First South Da- | kota Volunteer Infantry. Private ‘Otto S. Erlebach, Company G, First California, and Private George Gourlay, Company I, First Colorado, who are at the general hospital at the Presidio, have been ordered sent to their respective homes to await the tnal disposition of their cases by the War Department. ANSWERS TO COB.EF.SPDNDENTS" THE PRESIDENCY—Old Subscriber, | v. A man born in the United States of | Irish parents s, when he attains the proper age, eligible for the office of Pres. ident of the United States. IN THE DEPARTMENT—B. R. W. San Jose, Cal. As your letter of inquiry | does not state In what department you | desire to seek a position, this department | is unable to direct you. 8 1 ENSUS MARSHALS—G. A. B, Oak- land, Cal. The instructions to Census Marshals for 190 have not yét been is- sued. When they are they will appear in the news columns of The Call. POSTOFFICE EXAMINATION—B. M. W., Oakland, Cal. The time for the next postoffice examination has not yet been | place will be given to all whe have filed | applications. A HALF-DOLLAR—A. §. City. The selling price of a half-dollar of the coin- | age of 1822 is 75 cents to §1 for one with | small letters in the legend and from $2 50 | to $3 50 for one with large letters in the | Dealers do not purchase suchi coins. LEATHER HOUSES—A Subscriber, | City. As this department does not ad- | vertise any business firms it cannot tell | you the names of firms that buy leather. | ou should have accompanied your letter | of inquiry with a self-addressed and stamped envelope. CREDENTIALS—Subscriber, City. The credentials of applicants for the position | of quartermaster rigger that were filed | at the Mare Island Navy-yard can be ob- recorder of the board of labor employ- ment on the island. . CHICKEN RANCH—W. R. §., Oakland; Cal. To ascertain where in California there is unclaimed United States land suitable for a chicken ranch, vou should communicate with the several land offices of the State and each will inform you where there is unclaimed land. You would probably have to visit the different sites to ascertain for yourself if such would suit your purpose. I H. S—M. V. C., Chico, Cal. IHS was originally a combination of the first two and the last Greek letters of the Greek word Jesus, but its origin was lost sight of and the Latin letter S was sub- stituted for the Greek final and became I 8., and a Latin word was found for each letter. Hence Iesus Hominum Sal- vator, Jesus the Saviour of Men. Fors merl{ it was customary to put the ab- breviation mark over the three letters. This mark waf afterward altered into resting on the bar of that letter as it now appears in Catholic publications and on altar cloths. In this’ form it forms the In hac salis, meaning In this (cross) salvation. appreciation of he tion for three con In the evening there w. dining hal . past officer this city. Colonel Jeff Doolittle returned last even- ing after a trip to his mining properties at Dutch Flat. r Grand_ Circle P.R. Schmidt, a well-known wine-grower e T of Calistoga, was among yesterday's ar- Jignu W e s rivals at the Lick. Yespons to npanion: Colonel J. C. Kirkpatrick, manager o | forni o nions the Sharon estate, returned to the Palace | Of the Forest.! H. C o Cobutn® last evening after a month’s trip through | i Motto of the Orde S Sebums “The Workers of the East. wood; “Th J. D. Johnson and wife of Fresno are §;;;f M u registered at the Lick. Mr. Johnson is MIS- M. : one of the foremost attorneys of the raisin | pony Agon o acons, Srand chi town and is a frequent visitor to this city. D. Bremer; “The Gentlemen Comp: Dr. and Mrs. J. P. Waterhouse, Miss | Mrs. E. A. Carah Alice and Miss H. S. Waterhouse of Cin. B T T cinnati, Ohjo, arrived on the overland | Desecrated a Grave. last evening and are guests at the Cali- | Judge Seawell entered judgment yester- fornia. { day morning in favor of Justin Dauvil- Dr. Taggert, a well-known physician of | liers, who was sued by E. Blanchi for Bakersfield, returned yesterday after a |damages for injured feelings and reputa- trip through Alaska. He is resting at the | tion. Bianchi was Dauvilliers’ creditor, | Grand for a féw days before resuming his | and one day the latter stuck a card over journey south. | Mrs. Charles R. Ford and son Mortimer | leave this morning for Salt Lake City. Mr. | Ford recently left the service of theSouth- | ern Pacific Company to act as accountant | for the Highland Boy Gold Mining Com- | pany at Salt Lake City. | ‘W. H. Veith, a Fresno vineyardist, is | registered at the Grand, Mr. Veith says | that Fresno raisins were not greatly hurt | Dby the recent showers, but that they have | | suffered in someé sections by a heavy frost that swept the valley a few days ago. Among yesterday’s arrivals at the Lick were C. W. Boss and wife and Miss Mi- randa Boss of Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Boss, who is a wealthy brewer, is touring the ‘West and will take in the Yosemite and | Del Monte before returhing home. Ex-State Senator Voorheis of Sutter Creek is stopping at the Palace. Mr. Voor- heis is now the owner of some of the most promising mines in Amador County, and is said to be one of the syndicate which vesterday purchased at auction the Bun- ker Hill and Mayflower mines, in Amador County, for $30,500. E. S. Birdsall and wife of Sacramento are at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. Birdsall were married in Sacramento on Wednes- day and the wedding was one of the swellest social functions the capital has seen this season. They will leave to-day for Coronado, where the honeymoon will be spent. Oakes Ames and wife of Easton, M and H. L. Chatman and wife of Beverly Mass., arrived last evening and are regis- tered at the Palace. Mr. Ames is a mii- lionaire manufacturer of farming imple- ments and one of the largest owners in the Union Pacific Railroad. The party will tour the State extensively before re- turning East. —————— | CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, June S8.—S. E. Sel- fridge of San Francisco is at the Ebbitt House; G. D. Clark of San Francisco is at the Normandie; Walter C. Kerling of Los Angeles is at the Willards. —_—— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, June 8.—Walter J. Barnell and family of San Francisco are at the Imperial; Edward Campbell of San Jose ds at the Manhattan. e Gertrude Atherton’s new story, “Cupid the Golden,” gill be in next | Sunday’s Call. the grave of the parents of Bianchi ask- ing him to pay his bill and oblige the writer. In giving judgment for the de- fendant Judge Seawell said that he sym- pathized heartily with the 1 as there was no law to sust of plaintiff’s complaint judgmen entered for the defendant. —_—— Substitute Letter Carriers. The following named persons have been appointed additional letter-carriers by Posmaster Montague: George Schnepple, George F. Code, John E. Lower and Clay B. Ammerman. — ee————— Cal. glace fruit 5c per Ib at Townsend's.* e e Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telepnone Main 1042, & DO T Whipped His Mother. Alfred Currie, a young colored man liv- ing on Broadway and Hyde street, was asked by his mother Wednesday for a portion of his wages, and he had the audacity to whip her. Her elder son Richard came upon the sceme and would have demolished Alfred if a policeman had not interfered. Yesterday Richard procured a warrant for the arrest of his brother for battery upon his mother. —_—— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes. 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. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winsiow's Soothing Syrup, Zc a bottle. 1 e Rock island Route Excursions. Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, via | Rio Grande and Rock Island railways. Through | tourist sleeping cars to Chicago and Boston. | Manager and porter accompany these excur- sions through to Boston. For tickets, sleeping car accommodations and further information address CLINTON JONES, General Agent | Rock Island Railway. 624 Market st., S. F. —_———— | The Rio Grande Western Railway | Take pleasure in announcing the inauguration | June 1, 1899, of a complete dining-car service | between Ogden and Denver on all transconti- ! nental trains. Service a la carte. fice, 14 Montgomery st | | General of- HOTEL DEL CORONADO—Take advantage of the round-trip tickets. Now only $60 by steamship, Including fifteen days' board at hotel; longer stay, $2 50 per day. Apply at 4 New Montgomery street, San Franciscoy